How To Shingle A Cross Gable Roof

Asphalt roofing felt paper and nail it in place using 1 inch galvanized roofing nails.

How to shingle a cross gable roof.

Repeat steps for gabled ends installing the drip edge up the roof along the gable. Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm. Butt the first new truss against the old one. Tips on how to install shingles on a straight gable roof starter course.

Add ceiling joists every 24 in 61 cm on your top plates. The starter course is the first row of shingles that you ll install along the eaves of the roof. Start at the eave area just over the ice and water shield with a three inches of overlap about 3 and work your way up. When installing the paper you will overlap the felt paper per local building code usually 2 4.

Ceiling joists span between parallel walls for added. Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap. Known in the trade as vertical racking or staggering this how to lay shingles method enables the roofer to install a single column of shingles all the way to the peak without the wasted back and forth motion necessary to fill several rows of stair steps. Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster.

Then mount new trusses on the new addition walls. Lay the second row of shingles. Many roofers cut the shingles across because they say it s safer. Center a minimum 610 mm 24 wide minimum 28 gauge pre finished galvanized metal valley liner in the valley and fasten with only enough nails to hold it in place nailing at the edges only.

To lay out the design for the shingles begin at the bottom of the roof and place a tape measure inch from the edge of the roof to ensure the shingles. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates. In this video i show you how i do the valleys on a shingle roof. Framing the gable ends 1.

Tying in to an existing gable roof tie into the end of an existing gable roof by removing existing facing boards wall siding and any other obstructions back to the first truss of the old roof. No one of this affirmat. Make sure you keep this first row straight using the ice and water shield as a guide. Offsetting each successive course horizontally by 6 inches from the course below it will make the.