Shingling A Roof

The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge.

Shingling a roof.

Keep this up until you reach the other end of the peak. So instead the whole roof was removed and the decking was being replaced. Required tools for this how to shingle a roof project chalk line hammer roof harness utility knife. 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.

Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof. Asphalt roofing shingles simply rely on the force of gravity to shed water from rain or snow melt. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water.

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. Snap vertical layout lines every 6 inches across the roof. Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. Your last shingle is an exposed shingle.

Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. In the dictionary to shingle is defined as to lay out or arrange so as to overlap.

Nail each side of the shingle to each side of the ridge just below the shingles self sealing strip. Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof.