Shingling a Roof
Shingling or roofing a home is a significant endeavor for a house owner and severe care is needed. This stated, a Do-It-Yourselfer property owner can shingle or roof their own home with a little understanding and the right tools.
Needed Tools
In order to roof a home effectively and securely the following tools are required: Ladders, Roof Jacks, Hammer, Carpenters Knife, Chalk Line, and ideally a compressor or nail weapon.
Approximating Materials
There are eighty shingles in one square. Normally 3 packages equivalent one square, nevertheless this can differ a little pending the shingle design.
Procedure the location of your roof (length x width) and divide by 100 to get the variety of squares needed. Increase this number by 3 to get the number of packages of shingles needed for the task. Include an extra 10-15% for extra, favoring the 15% if your roof has valleys and hips.
Procedure the outdoors border of the roof to determine the drip edge needed. Normally just one or 2 courses of ice and water guard is needed along the bottom/eave of the roof and in the valleys. Determine 2 times the length of the roof and valleys to approximate the quantity of ice and water guard needed.
Usually each shingle will need 4-6 roofing nails and flashing generally can be found in 16″ broad functions or 6×6 or 8×8 square inch actions. Action flashing is normally utilized around chimneys, dormers and side wall junctions. Hip and Ridge vent will differ with regional building regulations, nevertheless a rough quote would be to determine the length of your roof’s hip and ridges and take 75% of this figure for computing the quantity of vent needed.
You need to now have the ability to relatively precisely determine the expense of product for roofing your home.
Setting Up the Drip Edge
Nail the Drip edge around the whole outdoors border of the roof.
Use the Ice and Water Shield Membrane and the Asphalt Paper
Use the ice and water guard product such that it is flush with the drip edge. Include a 2nd course of ice and water guard for included security if the environment in your location has severe winter seasons and/or substantial yearly rains. You ought to likewise include the ice and water guard membrane in the valleys.
Next use the asphalt paper to the whole roof, beginning with the bottom and working towards the ridge. Make certain each course of asphalt paper overlaps the lower row by numerous inches (successfully shingling with the asphalt paper).
Set up metal flashing
Set up metal flashing in all of the valleys. Action flashing around dormers and chimneys will be included as the shingles are set up.
Setting up the Shingles
Start the shingling at the bottom of the roof (or at the eaves). Lay a starter course such that the bottom edge of the shingle lines up flush with the drip edge. The starter strip is a “tabless” shingle that you make from the routine shingles utilizing your carpenter’s knife.
Lay your next course of complete shingles over the very first course, staggering the starter joints from the very first course to avoid water penetration.
You desire to attempt to prevent little shingle pieces at the far end of the roof. To avoid this, divide the length of the roof by the length of a complete shingle and evaluate how much of a shingle length you desire to begin with.
Utilize a Chalk Line
To guarantee your shingle courses run directly utilize a chalk line. Step the ended up expose on your shingles. This will guarantee that you shingles run straight and real as you advance up the roof with the courses.
Vertical lines ought to likewise be snapped every 3 to 6 feet to guarantee your tabs keep positioning.
Usage of Roof Jacks
After 3 or 4 courses of shingles have actually been set up utilizing ladders, roof jacks might be essential to access the upper courses. Roof jacks are steel brackets that hold slabs in position for you to base on. The roof jacks need to be firmly nailed through the decking and into rafters to make sure that they will support your weight.
Shingling Valleys, Chimneys, Skylights and Dormers, and Step Flashing
Shingling the valleys and setting up flashing needs additional care. The shingles, generally originating from 2 converging courses when getting in a valley, require to overlap each other such that no water penetration happens.
Chimneys, dormers and skylights need to be action flashed (action flashing is interleaved with each course of shingles) to guarantee water is avoided permeating the roof.
Including the Ridge Vent and Caps
To finish the roofing task, ridge vents require to be set up. These are nailed to the top of the ridge and after that topped.
The ridge cap avoids water from getting in the home through the ridge vent, while still enabling your home to breath. The ridge cap is built out of specific shingle tabs that have their incomplete corners cut off at 45 degree angles. Each customized shingle tab, is nailed such that it overlaps the previous piece as you work your method down the length of the ridge vent.
Lay a starter course such that the bottom edge of the shingle lines up flush with the drip edge. The starter strip is a “tabless” shingle that you make from the routine shingles utilizing your carpenter’s knife.
You desire to attempt to prevent little shingle pieces at the far end of the roof. To avoid this, divide the length of the roof by the length of a complete shingle and evaluate how much of a shingle length you desire to begin with. After 3 or 4 courses of shingles have actually been set up utilizing ladders, roof jacks might be needed to access the upper courses.