How To Replace A Shed Roof Felt

Clean and prepare the roof.

How to replace a shed roof felt. Buy the roof felt. The real beauty of installing a professional quality roofing felt to a shed roof is the utter lack of specialist tools required unlike other high performance roof coverings. The first thing you need to do is remove the old worn felt from the roof. The second layer of felt is then placed over the top of the first.

Measure the roof of your shed. Paint a layer of adhesive such as bitumen mastic over the top of the first felt layer a length at a time. Apply the felt to the roof. The process of felting a shed roof.

Tidy up the overhanging felt. Replacing shed roof felt removing the old felt and nails. There should be no extra debri of any kind on the decking before you begin. When you are felting a sloped roof you start at the bottom and work your way up so that rain pours over the top of the laps and not under them.

How to felt a shed roof. Once measured and cut line the first piece of felt up so that it over hangs the edge of the roof on three sides by enough to cover the side pieces of the roof. Remove excess felt nails and adhesive before replacing the felt on your flat roof. Have a good look at the exposed timber especially where there were holes in the felt and make sure.

Laying the new felt ridged. Remove the old felt. Remove any existing timber fascia boards. A hammer a craft knife preferably with a hooked blade but not essential an old 2 brush and a flat pry bar as seen in my roofing tools section will help.