Return to the side that you began rolling from and.
How to tack down roofing felt.
Complete the finishing touches.
Begin at the bottom right or.
Includes useful advice on the best materials to use together with information.
Place just enough tacks to hold down the tar paper.
Installing the roofing felt does take care but can go very quickly.
How to install felt underlayment for a new roof.
Tack it in place at the corner with the end.
These thick layers of roofing felt are installed by heating the back of the felt with a butane torch and then carefully applying it to the roof.
Begin at the bottom edges of the roof and go up.
Tack the felt onto the initial rolling spot using a tack gun.
Tack it down with galvanized nails a hammer tacker or an electric staple gun.
Installing any verge edge and edging to any flashings and vertical walls.
Continue pulling the felt tight.
The actual process of putting down the underlayment will be one of the fastest parts of the entire roofing process.
Attaching your roof felt 1.
Fasten drip edge on eaves with.
Preparing the roof for the felt to be laid.
Laying the second boded underlay felt and adding any gutter drips.
Start the roof felt at one bottom corner of the roof.
Start rolling the first layer of felt out from the bottom of one side of the roof.
Use more if the day is windy.
As before tack it in place then add more clouts between the tacking.
Laying the first underlay felt.
Now back onto the rood of the shed and nail down the overlapping edges of the felt.
Taking the time to properly prepare the sheathing will make all the difference in how quickly and easily the felt paper is installed.
Nail metal drip edge flashing which bends over the roof and down the edge of the facing board on all roof edges.
You can t have too many nails holding your felt down a loose edge will eventually rip if it s caught by a strong wind.
Unroll the felt and cut it to fit the length of the roof with a utility knife.
Lay the first piece along one edge of the roof allowing one side to hang over the edge by about 2 inches.
The basics of these steps are.