How To Shingle A Roof With No Peak

This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more.

How to shingle a roof with no peak.

Center a minimum 610 mm 24 wide minimum 28 gauge pre finished galvanized metal valley liner in the valley and fasten with only enough nails to hold it in place nailing at the edges only. Then your first shingle goes on the side you are going to cut. Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster. How to install step flashing where there is no wall corner.

Nail it where the next ridge shingle will cover the nails about an inch horizontally and vertically. Starting at the ridge use your shovel to pry off old shingles. Use bitumen based roofing cement to cover each nail head. Lay the first ridge cap.

Start by overlapping a starter from both sides of the valley at the bottom. Do this by sliding hard under the layers of shingle and paper then pry upward. The next one goes on the low side. Known in the trade as vertical racking or staggering this how to lay shingles method enables the roofer to install a single column of shingles all the way to the peak without the wasted back and forth motion necessary to fill several rows of stair steps.

Leaving one side of the cut piece straight bend the other side to match the peak of the roof as shown below. Trim the edges on the rake and top edge so that they are flush with the other shingles. Capping a roof is the last thing done during a roofing project. It must be completed at the very end of the shingle run to overlap the uppermost shingles and form a.

Drive a nail through the adhesive portion of the ridge cap into the roof decking. To do this begin on one end of the ridge and place the ridge cap so that the asphalt portion points towards the end of the ridge and the adhesive points in towards the center of the roof. Bend single tabs or special ridge shingles over the ridge beginning at the end putting a bead of asphalt under the first ridge shingle to hold down the tab. Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap.

If no ridge vent is present use your shovel to remove the shingle cap on the ridge. Weave and cut the valley on the highest side of the roof. A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles. Nail the shingle with four nails two in the adhesive stirp and two at either corner.

Later you will cover it with a ridge shingle. Start at the end and move in and down.