How To Get Shingles Up On A Roof

Trim the shingles with your utility knife photo 14.

How to get shingles up on a roof.

If you hit a stack vent or chimney interlace the shingles with the flashing to allow water to run down the roof. The open strip sections tabs of the shingle. Next install your vent or stack flashing over that row of shingles photo 13. Remove shingles in a 2 to 3 ft wide section as you work down the roof.

2 bundles is not a big deal i used to do it all the time. A framed window gable that is installed in the roof slope. A dormer can also be the entire slope of the roof raised on the eave side up to a pitch of 2 12 off the ridge. Many homeowners don t spend a lot of time on their roof and aren t familiar with trying to walk around or recognize damaged areas that may be unsafe.

The physical demands of roofing are often understated. The plywood surface that is attached to the rafters. Lastly multiply this number by 3 and you will know how many packs you need to buy. Whether you re using asphalt shingles or another product stacking your materials on a roof requires you to consider safety and how to minimize the risk of damaging the roof and your materials.

When i worked on a roofing crew 2 bundles is what you expected to carry up each time you came up the ladder. Install the shingles up and halfway past the vent hole or stack. Keep shingles in their packaging up until you install them in order to minimize their exposure to dust dirt and other debris. You have to be able to carry heavy loads of shingles up on your roof and starting your shingle work requires you to start working at the.

Seal the top nail holes and continue on up with your shingles. If you went down for water or anything you grabbed 2 bundles. Going up the ladder is the easy part. The shingles will roll up like a ball in front of the fork.

Continue tearing off the shingles and underlayment until you reach the roof jacks then start over at the top of the roof. When you reach the peak either bring the ridge edges together with a ridge capping layer or cut regular shingles into 3 tabbed equal pieces and bend them so they fit on the roof peak. That applied to every man on the crew except the owner of the company. Repeat this process until you ve put all shingle bundles on the roof.

A row of shingles installed on the roof. Next remove old shingles and flashing. A back saving method of lifting shingles and other materials to the roof. Nail it down with your roofing gun top and bottom.

Push the shingles down to the roof jacks. Continue laying your shingles horizontally up the roof. Begin by removing the shingles using a roofing shovel. Divide that number by 100 to get the correct number of squares.

Pull or pick up the bundle of shingles you just put onto the roof and reposition them onto a peak hip or rake of the roof.