Shingling A Roof

Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof.

Shingling a roof.

Required tools for this how to shingle a roof project chalk line hammer roof harness utility knife. Your last shingle is an exposed shingle. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges.

However the plywood sheathing underneath the shingles was beginning to fail. In the dictionary to shingle is defined as to lay out or arrange so as to overlap. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles.

Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water. Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk. So instead the whole roof was removed and the decking was being replaced.

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. Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle. Keep this up until you reach the other end of the peak.

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.