How To Shingle A 4 Sided Garage Roof

The ridges both along the top of the roof and the hip lines are covered by cutting three tab shingles into threes and nailing the individual pieces on so they overlap.

How to shingle a 4 sided garage roof.

Ask this old house general contractor tom silva reveals the best ways to secure shingles to a roof. Place two nails in the shingle 1 inch in from the ends on either side of the ridge in the tab part of the shingle. Use a nail at each end of the shingle and one in the center. Insert wire coiled roofing nails into a pneumatic roofing gun.

Each row should overlap the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm not less. This video will show you how to install roof shingles. Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap. Use roll roofing as an edge along the lower eaves of the garage.

Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. 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. Repeat this on both sides of the roof. The shingles should jut out from 1 4 to 3 8 inch 7 to 1 cm over the drip edge.

Nail a horizontal row of shingles over the drip edge. This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more. This is to cover the garage roof under the notches of the first layer of shingles. See below for a shopping list tools and steps subscr.

Continue to nail horizontal rows of shingles onto the roof. Every 5 inches make a new mark until you get to the rop of the roof. Place the new shingles row by row fastening them with galvanized roofing nails on the top half of each. A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles.

Hammer the nail into the top part of each shingle.