How To Install New Roofing Shingles

Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles.

How to install new roofing shingles.

To start installing shingles line up aluminum drip edge flush with the edge of the roof and make a pencil line at the top on each end of the house. Then begin nailing the shingles to the roof working in rows and starting at the edge of the roof. Repeat this on both sides of the roof. Pull the drip edge down about a half inch from that line to create a gap between the drip edge and the fascia board.

Once you have completed both faces of the gable roof you can install the ridge shingles. Do the hips in the same manner with the ridge shingles overlapping the hips at the joints. To install asphalt shingles start by installing underlayment and new flashing on the roof. Known in the trade as vertical racking or staggering this how to lay shingles method enables the roofer to install a single column of shingles all the way to the peak without the wasted back and forth motion necessary to fill several rows of stair steps.

Using the chalk line snap a line between the two marks to get a straight edge. Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster. Center a 914 mm 36 width strip of an ice and water protector membrane in the valley. Once you ve done that cut your shingles to size if they re not already.

Ridge shingles are one 12 inch tab of a full shingle and leave 6 inches of the previous shingle exposed. Step 7 install the ridge shingles. Every 5 inches make a new mark until you get to the rop of the roof.