How To Shingle Your Own Roof

Apply new roofing paper onto the entire surface to be shingled with roofing nails overlapping each course 2 inches from above.

How to shingle your own roof.

Install flashing on any valleys for waterproofing. Install the drip edge. Install your starter row of shingles at the bottom of your roof making sure to follow the. Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk.

Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. Cover your roof with felt paper and overlap the ridges at the peak. Pry off old roof shingles with pitch fork.

Secure the horizontal flange to the roof. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Strip off old shingles. Secure loose boards and cover large holes.

Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by. Do this by sliding hard under the layers of shingle and paper then pry upward. Basic steps to replacing a shingle roof. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of.

Start from the lowest section and work your way up to the ridge. Begin row 4 with a shingle cut in half 1 and tabs and complete that row. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to reshingle a roof. Staple felt every 6 to 8 inches.

Cover roof deck with 30 pound felt underlayment. Row 7 begins with a full 3 tab shingle. Starting at the ridge use your shovel to pry off old shingles. Hammer down any boards or nails that have come loose ensuring the.

Start at the end and move in and down. Replacement tear off 1. Use a shingle scraper pitchfork or flat shovel to get under the shingles prying them up. Nail down loose roof sheathing to rafters.

If you are patching in a section of the roof be sure to install shingles that match the size and the color of the existing shingles. If no ridge vent is present use your shovel to remove the shingle cap on the ridge. Place the second step flashing piece over the end shingle in the first course by positioning it 143 mm 5 5 8 above the bottom edge of the exposed asphalt shingle. Complete the row with 3 tab shingles.

Begin row 5 with the 1 tab shingle and row 6 with the 1 2 tab shingle. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Align and install the 2 tab shingle aligned with the next 5 inch higher chalk line.