Shingling A Roof

Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle.

Shingling a roof.

Snap vertical layout lines every 6 inches across the roof. Your last shingle is an exposed shingle. Nail each side of the shingle to each side of the ridge just below the shingles self sealing strip. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.

Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof. Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm.

So instead the whole roof was removed and the decking was being replaced. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. However the plywood sheathing underneath the shingles was beginning to fail.

Remove existing roof and underlayment the original plan was to preserve a portion of the existing roof since the shingles still had some life left in them. Continue laying roof shingles aligning the top edges with the horizontal chalk lines and the ends with the vertical chalk lines to create the proper 6 inch offset. Required tools for this how to shingle a roof project chalk line hammer roof harness utility knife. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge.

Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk.