How To Re Shingle Your Roof
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How to re shingle your roof. Renting one costs about 35 a day or 90 a week so if you own a compressor you might as well buy rather than rent. If your roof is in good shape but has some damage to one side from a downed tree or has lost shingles in a wind storm an overlay is worth considering. Learn to prepare the roof for shingles lay even courses and install your ridge shingles like the experts do. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges.
Staple felt every 6 to 8 inches. Before you reshingle a roof read our step by step guide for adding new shingles over old ones. Nail drip edge flashing to lower edge of roof. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.
Part 1 of 3. Beveled wood pieces called horsefeathers must be laid along the thick edges of the shakes to make a fairly flat surface. Pry off old roof shingles with pitch fork. How to shingle over existing shingles and how to shingle a roof how to install roof shingles shingle layout lines h.
The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge. Unless your roof is tiny you re going to want to get your hands on a pneumatic roofing nailer. Roofing second layer of shingles roofing. However the job will go much faster and easier if you can rent or borrow some of the power specialty tools.
When installing a new asphalt shingle roof you really do not need any specialty tools to tear off and re roof your home. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to reshingle a roof steps. Flat shovel or pitch fork pry bar tin snips roofing hammer shingle knife and extra blades staple gun.
Asphalt shingles can be laid over cedar shakes or shingles however this is a roofing project best left to pros. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. Re roofing is the quickest and least costly way to restore your roof s appearance. Nail down loose roof sheathing to rafters.
Cover roof deck with 30 pound felt underlayment.