How To Install New Roofing Shingles

To install asphalt shingles start by installing underlayment and new flashing on the roof.

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. Every 5 inches make a new mark until you get to the rop of the roof. Repeat this on both sides of the roof. Many pros shingle in a vertical line up the roof because it s much faster.

Use the chalk line to snap a straight line vertically every 6 inches. Step 7 install the ridge shingles. Once you ve done that cut your shingles to size if they re not already. Once you have completed both faces of the gable roof you can install the ridge shingles.

Ridge shingles are one 12 inch tab of a full shingle and leave 6 inches of the previous shingle exposed. The recommended flashing material is a 28 gauge galvanized metal or an equivalent corrosion resistant non staining material check with local codes. Using the chalk line snap a line between the two marks to get a straight edge. Then begin nailing the shingles to the roof working in rows and starting at the edge of the roof.

Center a 914 mm 36 width strip of an ice and water protector membrane in the valley. 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. Do the hips in the same manner with the ridge shingles overlapping the hips at the joints.