How To Get Shingles Onto A Roof

I bought my shingles carried them home on my utility trailer.

How to get shingles onto a roof.

Read on to learn more to see if you re ready to take on the job. If debris collects on the shingle s adhesive band it may not seal properly limiting the roof s wind resistance. Before you grab your ladder remember not all roofs are the same. You ll need around 12 inches or so.

Avoid debris when stacking shingles. We tied a rope to the handle of a red american flyer wagon the kids used to use. While they may not look it a bundle of shingles is extremely heavy. We put the wagon on the slide about a 75 degree angle put a bundle in the wagon and pulled it up the slide onto the roof.

While you should be roofing on a clean surface debris may blow onto the roof while you are installing your shingles. You will be laying it down over the valley then shingling the addition to the roof. Get out a ladder and climb up onto your roof. Obviously the cheapest but also the most physically taxing method is simply carrying the roofing materials by hand onto the roof.

You ll need longer nails for this part as you re driving through more layers of shingles. If you can t walk around on it comfortably hire a pro. So we rented a cool tool to help aptly named a shingle lifter. Step from the truck to the roof if you haven t done so already and pull or pick them up and place them on a peak hip or rake of the roof.

Climb onto the standing surface of the truck grasp the bundle of shingles and swing or walk them onto the roof. Lastly you will want to re lay those shingles that you removed and numbered earlier. We really need to get some shingling done. Installing shingles onto your roof entails proper knowledge preparation and safety.

The first phase of that chore is getting the bundled shingles onto the roof. We built a slide from 2x4s and plywood. Each bundle weighs over 50 pounds. You can either use special shingles called ridge shingles or cut a number of regular shingles into 3 tabbed equal pieces and bend each so they fit snugly on the roof peak and nail them into place.

This is not a problem for basic materials such as nails and so forth but for shingles it quickly becomes a major chore.