How To Installing A Metal Roof Over Shingles Viedo

Close the bottom of the metal roof.

How to installing a metal roof over shingles viedo.

Your metal trim will go along the roof s edges as well as the top ridge. This is part 1 of a 6 part video series explaining how i installed a metal roof on my house. Use notching scissors to notch the metal in the middle so that it will bend over the ridge. Cut v shaped notches into metal sheets and bend them to fit trim pieces to the ridge line and eave.

Make sure roof is square. The vast majority of installations of the metal roofing systems produced by my company are over existing shingles. Steel shingles weigh about 1 4 what asphalt shingles weigh and aluminum shingles weigh about 1 8 what standard shingles weigh. A benefit to doing it this way is that you can see if there is any rotten plywood that needs to be replaced before installing the new roof.

Install with 1 4 inch metal wood screws at a distance of every two feet. In this video i m installing some metal roofing over an existing ash fault shingled roof. Align the first metal roofing panel so that it overlaps the edging by 1 2 to 3 4 of an inch and is square to the roof line. This is not a complete install only basic install on a bungalow i.

The low weight of metal roofing is one thing that encourages this. 1 remove the shingles before installing the metal roof the first way to install a metal roof over shingles is by completely removing the old shingles before installing the new metal roof. Be sure the larger edge is laid so that the small edge of the next panel will overlap it.