How To Shingle A 4 Sided Garage Roof

This is to cover the garage roof under the notches of the first layer of shingles.

How to shingle a 4 sided garage roof.

Each row should overlap the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm not less. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva reveals the best ways to secure shingles to a roof. Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap. Repeat this on both sides of 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. 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. Hammer the nail into the top part of each shingle.

Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. See below for a shopping list tools and steps subscr. Nail a horizontal row of shingles over the drip edge. 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.

Insert wire coiled roofing nails into a pneumatic roofing gun. This video will show you how to install roof shingles. That way the only nails that are left exposed are those used to nail the last shingle on the roof. The shingles should jut out from 1 4 to 3 8 inch 7 to 1 cm over the drip edge.

Use roll roofing as an edge along the lower eaves of the garage. The tab sits under. Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof. A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles.

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.