If you went down for water or anything you grabbed 2 bundles.
How to get shingles up on a roof.
Walking up to the ridge is wha twears on your legs quick.
A back saving method of lifting shingles and other materials to the roof.
Begin by removing the shingles using a roofing shovel.
Lastly multiply this number by 3 and you will know how many packs you need to buy.
Push the shingles down to the roof jacks.
The physical demands of roofing are often understated.
The open strip sections tabs of the shingle.
Going up the ladder is the easy part.
Many homeowners don t spend a lot of time on their roof and aren t familiar with trying to walk around or recognize damaged areas that may be unsafe.
Continue climbing up the ladder and onto the roof.
Trim the shingles with your utility knife photo 14.
You have to be able to carry heavy loads of shingles up on your roof and starting your shingle work requires you to start working at the.
Keep shingles in their packaging up until you install them in order to minimize their exposure to dust dirt and other debris.
Continue laying your shingles horizontally up the roof.
Pull or pick up the bundle of shingles you just put onto the roof and reposition them onto a peak hip or rake of the roof.
Whether you re using asphalt shingles or another product stacking your materials on a roof requires you to consider safety and how to minimize the risk of damaging the roof and your materials.
If you hit a stack vent or chimney interlace the shingles with the flashing to allow water to run down the roof.
When i worked on a roofing crew 2 bundles is what you expected to carry up each time you came up the ladder.
Bring a trash can up on the roof so you have a place to throw old shingles and flashing.
Next install your vent or stack flashing over that row of shingles photo 13.
That applied to every man on the crew except the owner of the company.
The shingles will roll up like a ball in front of the fork.
2 bundles is not a big deal i used to do it all the time.
Nail it down with your roofing gun top and bottom.
A dormer can also be the entire slope of the roof raised on the eave side up to a pitch of 2 12 off the ridge.
When you reach the peak either bring the ridge edges together with a ridge capping layer or cut regular shingles into 3 tabbed equal pieces and bend them so they fit on the roof peak.
A row of shingles installed on the roof.
The plywood surface that is attached to the rafters.
Remove shingles in a 2 to 3 ft wide section as you work down the roof.
A framed window gable that is installed in the roof slope.
Seal the top nail holes and continue on up with your shingles.
Divide that number by 100 to get the correct number of squares.
Repeat this process until you ve put all shingle bundles on the roof.
