The roof s sheathing helps to keep the roof trusses or rafters properly spaced and is the strength that holds.
How to sheath a roof alone.
A tapered piece of sheathing can be cut to fill in at the eave if necessary.
Roof sheathing alone user 97129 posted in general discussion on december 18 2006 05 59am sheathing spec.
Osb is lightweight relatively inexpensive and strong enough to resist bending or breaking should.
I have used a rope to drag it up the walls and i ve tried carrying it up a ladder balanced atop my head until somebody could grab it from me.
Build braced acceptors of 2 4 that will act as tables for the plywood.
I have packed it up stairs and fought it through the rafters.
Sheathing a roof is easy compared with getting the material from the pile way down here to the rafters way up there.
In the u s roof sheathing is almost always composed of wood usually osb oriented strand board or plywood.
Is 3 4 absolutely no access to help to stock or install 15 off ground.
The key here is to have your roof fully braced and able to handle the load.
Roof sheathing is a lot more than just flat panels onto which shingles are attached.
Sheath one slope of the roof at a time ripping the top course to the needed width at the ridge.
Roof sheathing or decking is one of those elements.
Make sure you distribute the load well too if it is a big roof.