How To Shingle A Cross Gable Roof

Framing the gable ends 1.

How to shingle a cross gable roof.

Known in the trade as vertical racking or staggering this how to lay shingles method enables the roofer to install a single column of shingles all the way to the peak without the wasted back and forth motion necessary to fill several rows of stair steps. Tips on how to install shingles on a straight gable roof starter course. Asphalt roofing felt paper and nail it in place using 1 inch galvanized roofing nails. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates.

Add ceiling joists every 24 in 61 cm on your top plates. This 1 2 tab has to be cut off where it hangs off the left edge of the gable roof. No one of this affirmat. Offsetting each successive course horizontally by 6 inches from the course below it will make the.

Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm. Butt the first new truss against the old one. Many roofers cut the shingles across because they say it s safer. Ceiling joists span between parallel walls for added.

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. 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. Determine the pitch you want for. Repeat steps for gabled ends installing the drip edge up the roof along the gable.

When installing the paper you will overlap the felt paper per local building code usually 2 4. Lay the second row of shingles. 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. The starter course is the first row of shingles that you ll install along the eaves of the roof.

Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster. Start at the eave area just over the ice and water shield with a three inches of overlap about 3 and work your way up. 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. In this video i show you how i do the valleys on a shingle roof.