Watch our step by step video showing how to felt a shed roof with expert advice and top tips to help you complete the job with confidence.
How to felt a hexagonal roof.
I positioned the cross members to coincide with the plywood roofing pieces.
The rest of the roof was fairly standard dpc plywood roofing felt then asphalt shingles.
Roofing felt comes in rolls that feature pre marked lines 2 to 3.
The finishing brass finial was cobbled together from a doorknob and the base of a discarded brass vase.
Choose sizes for h and t and for w or v calculate the other sizes using the formulae cut out six oversize pieces of wood using straight cuts use scrap pieces of wood to set the angle for the bottom edge on a bench saw cut the bottom edge of the triangles at that angle reset the saw.
Start at the bottom of one side of the roof at the right or left edge.
I used a plant pot to cover the finial and then felted it over.
Position the first row of roofing felt flush on the bottom with the edge of the gutter apron.