How To Install Standing Seam Metal Roof Panels

This technique provides the cleanest look and shows no exposed fasteners.

How to install standing seam metal roof panels.

Overlap the end a minimum of six inches when starting a new roll of underlayment. Fasten panel side with number ten pancake head screws and the top of the panel with three number fourteen mill points. This video shows how to install standing seam panels when hemming the eave and rake. First of all if you install a standing seam metal roof over asphalt shingles there will be a so called telegraphing effect where shingles can punch horizontal lines in standing seam panels.

Place the first panel with overlap leg along the alignment line. Unlike steel and aluminum shingles standing seam panels should not be installed over the existing asphalt shingles. Allow each consecutive course to overlap the previous one by at least four to six inches. Start the installation of the underlayment at the intersection of an eave and a gable end and then roll it out parallel to the eave end.

Standing seam consists of sheet metal roofing panels joined side by side and attached to the roofing deck with concealed fasteners. There are two main reasons.