How To Finish Off A Shingle Roof Ridge

The difficulty lies in getting it just right to keep any type of water from leaking through and damaging the roofing materials.

How to finish off a shingle roof ridge.

Three tab shingles are easy to cut into strips to create a ridge cap but now roofers and homeowners largely prefer laminated shingles. By mike litchfield roof vents allow air to flow beneath the roof deck thus moderating attic temperatures extending the life of roofing materials reducing ambient moisture in the house a big source of mold and preventing ice dams from forming along the eaves in cold climates. It must be completed at the very end of the shingle run to overlap the uppermost shingles and form a weatherproof seal. Cedar roofing consists of thin tapered pieces.

The ridge cap the course of shingles on the very ridge of the roof can be made from available 3 tab shingles. A peaked cedar roof requires a carefully constructed cap to ensure a weather tight seal. How to finish the top edge of a shed roof. When i started with iko over 20 years ago three tab.

Single slope and lean to. How to finish off ridge caps on a peaked cedar roof. Continue up the roof from both side and then cut 3 caps from each tab of the shingle. Nail it where the next ridge shingle will cover the nails about an inch horizontally and vertically.

Capping a roof is the last thing done during a roofing project. Gluing anything on a roof isn t in our vocabulary. There are some simple techniques to follow when attempting this project. Using the tabs we started at one end working toward the other so the nails were blind and then on the last tab you have to nail it and use some roof cement on the nail neads.

Once you ve reached the ridge bend the shingle over the ridge so that each side is equal and nail it into place with a single nail on each side. Later on we ll investigate the finer points of applying shingles to the top row of a lean to type shed. Bend single tabs or special ridge shingles over the ridge beginning at the end putting a bead of asphalt under the first ridge shingle to hold down the tab. Here are two ways to finish the ridge vent on a cedar shingle roof.

Shingling a roof ridge is perhaps the most difficult and easiest project to finish off a roof project the roof ridge is the uppermost portion of the roof where the shingles are laid a little bit differently. Cut the last ridge shingle to the length you need but be sure that no part of the roof is exposed. Nails and nails only. Two simple cuts create three pieces that can be used to finish the shingle project.

Do the same with the next shingle continuing this step until you get to the far edge of the ridge. Rob davidson vice president of residential sales for iko canada explains why.