Shingling A Roof

Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk.

Shingling a roof.

Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water. 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. However the plywood sheathing underneath the shingles was beginning to fail. Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof. In the dictionary to shingle is defined as to lay out or arrange so as to overlap.

Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge. Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof. Keep this up until you reach the other end of the peak.

Snap vertical layout lines every 6 inches across the roof. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Asphalt roofing shingles simply rely on the force of gravity to shed water from rain or snow melt. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the 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.