How To Replace A Shed Roof With Dimensional Shingles

Install the drip edge over the gable end felt and under the eaves felt.

How to replace a shed roof with dimensional shingles. Outer layers such as shingles and underlayment sheathing or plywood and roof rafters. Types of shed roof repairs. Use a starter strip or cut pieces for a starter course. These run opposite the roof shingles and overlap the upper layer of shingles on each side of roof.

When you get down to it there are hundreds of different types of repair you could do to a shed roof. Once this first row of upside down shingles is affixed to the roof with tar begin laying the shingles. Nail down the shingles in an overlapping pattern that covers seams and nails. Begin shingling at the bottom edge of the roof starting at one end.

Start in one bottom corner. Attach the starter strip. On a sloped peak work from the bottom to up. Rip cut the starter strip or starter pieces so that they butt up against the second course of existing shingles and are even with the front edge of the existing roofing.

Roofing second layer of shingles roofing. Lay the entire first row one at a time nailing each down with one inch roofing nails. Roll out and staple down roofing felt in overlapping rows. But they fall into 3 basic categories.

Attach with nails along the top edge of the strip. How to shingle a shed with 3 tab and architectural shingles. Install the ridge cap shingles along the roof peak. How to shingle over existing shingles and how to shingle a roof how to install roof shingles shingle layout lines h.

Nail the new shingle in using roofing nails.