Shingling A Roof

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

Shingling a roof.

Nail each side of the shingle to each side of the ridge just below the shingles self sealing strip. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. 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.

Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk. Snap vertical layout lines every 6 inches across the roof. Keep this up until you reach the other end of the peak. 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.

So instead the whole roof was removed and the decking was being replaced. Asphalt roofing shingles simply rely on the force of gravity to shed water from rain or snow melt. 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. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water.

However the plywood sheathing underneath the shingles was beginning to fail. Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle. Required tools for this how to shingle a roof project chalk line hammer roof harness utility knife. Your last shingle is an exposed shingle.

Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof.