Roofing How To Do It Yourself

In this video i m installing some metal roofing over an existing ash fault shingled roof.

Roofing how to do it yourself. Keep the rain where it belongs with these tips for maintaining a protected roof. Cut the shingles to fit around the flange s dome. Peel off the bottom backing. Protect the roof against ice dams and windblown rain with self stick ice and water.

Adhere the shingles adjacent to the flange with roofing tar. Adhere the joint where the cut edges of the shingles meet the dome. Doing so will most likely cause you to get the paper crooked leaving you with wrinkles in the material. Measure 35 inches up from the eaves at several intervals along the roof and mark them.

This is not a complete install only basic install on a bungalow i. Using a staple gun or hammer tacker staple 6 to 8 inches apart making sure there are no ripples or bubbles in the felt as you go. Do not use the bottom of the roof as a straight line. Snap a chalk line as a guide for the first layer roofing.

Starting at the bottom corner of the roof lay a strip of roofing felt horizontally across the bottom edge of the roof. Allow the felt to extend 1 4 inch 6 5 mm to 3 8 inch 1 cm at the bottom roof edge. Then pull off the. Lay the lower edge of the flange over the top of the lower shingles and the upper edge is positioned underneath the.

Do not use the eaves as a guide instead because they can be uneven.