How To Shingle Hips The Peak Of A Roof

Bending and overlapping these flaps the guys would put two more nails to anchor it in place.

How to shingle hips the peak of a roof.

Start from the bottom edge of the ridge and secure each shingle with 1 1 2 inch nails. If the roof has a triangular shape stretch your tape measure along the bottom edge then measure from the peak point down to the center of the bottom edge. Overlap them as before and continue until you reach the top. Repeat this until you reach the topmost ridge and then repeat for every hip ridge.

After both hips were finished the guys would place a shingle along the ridge. The hip shingles continued all the way to the ridge and that last shingle was cut to length so as to avoid covering the open ridge rafter. Installing ridge cap and hip shingles on the hips you ll start at the bottom trimming the first piece so the corners of the hip shingles don t extend into the gutter. Find the dimensions of each of the roof s faces.

To make the shingle flush they would cut a short slice parallel with the ridge. The guys would cut a second shingle to overlap the back half of the first one. For trapezoidal roofs measure the bottom edge the top edge also known as the ridge and the distance between the 2 edges. Trim the very last shingle on each ridge as needed.

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