How To Felt A Valley Roof

With a clean valley you can lay down some peel and stick roofing membrane.

How to felt a valley roof.

Start at the bottom of the roofline and work up so any water that gets through the roofing material will shed down the tar paper and will not go under it. Fold the top over the roof ridge and cut the bottom along the drip edge metal. Tips for applying felt paper to roof valleys. To understand the concept and how all the pieces are laid out and cut i picture the roof two dimensionally in plan view.

Then i run a r. The roof ridge is the horizontal top edge which may or may not be present on a hip roof. Then starting at the base of the. Take a close look at how i paper the 30 in the center of the valley.

Ensure ice and water protector has been installed along the valley first. Install the roofing felt on all roof sides extending it over the ridge of the roof and overlapping 8 inches there just as you did on the sides. Only nail at the edges with only enough nails to. Install synthetic roofing underlayment or felt paper according to manufacturer specifications and then install the first piece of valley flashing.

To secure the roof valley flashing nail it down carefully. The first is the pitch of the roof. Felt paper should extend at least 10 inches up each side of the roof valley so use a strip between 20 and 24. As you work the paper can be tacked down in the center so it won t blow away.

The roofing felt should be applied in layers that overlap. Stop nailing 6 inches from the center. Trim the felt paper at top and bottom. How to install roofing paper in a valley section and install the valley flashing on top.

Lay one and two tab shingles as you near the valley so full size shingles will run across the valley. This is how i paper my vallies. This video shows the water proofing paper that we installed after re. Then i use a construction calculator to find the correct length of each rafter.

Lay shingles and mark center roof one side of the valley running the shingles across it. To get started i need to know only two things. I swear it is the fastest way out there. The hips are the sloping side edges of the roof.

Start at the top.