How To Shingle A Cross Gable Roof

Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster.

How to shingle a cross gable roof.

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. Asphalt roofing felt paper and nail it in place using 1 inch galvanized roofing nails. 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. Tips on how to install shingles on a straight gable roof starter course.

Many roofers cut the shingles across because they say it s safer. Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm. This 1 2 tab has to be cut off where it hangs off the left edge of the gable roof. Ceiling joists span between parallel walls for added.

Add ceiling joists every 24 in 61 cm on your top plates. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates. Offsetting each successive course horizontally by 6 inches from the course below it will make the. 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.

Butt the first new truss against the old one. Then mount new trusses on the new addition walls. In this video i show you how i do the valleys on a shingle roof. Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap.

Determine the pitch you want for. Framing the gable ends 1. Repeat steps for gabled ends installing the drip edge up the roof along the gable. Lay the second row of shingles.

Make sure you keep this first row straight using the ice and water shield as a guide. No one of this affirmat. Set the first shingle of the second row back a half tab 6 inches 17 centimeters from the edge of first shingle on the first row and so that the bottom of its tabs just touches the tops of the cutout slots on the shingle below. When installing the paper you will overlap the felt paper per local building code usually 2 4.