Asphalt Shingle Roof Installation Instructions

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Asphalt shingle roof installation instructions.

Prep the roof by installing underlayment drip edge and valley flashing as needed. Start to finish 2 days. Nail the roofing strips parallel to the roof edge set in 1 and 8 from the roof edge with nails spaced 4 o c. Using your staple gun secure the felt to the roof.

How to install asphalt shingles 1. Working at heights on a roof presents fall hazard risks and. Once this course is laid you can begin snapping horizontal chalk lines up the roof to ensure straight rows. Briarwood 42 quick start guide 2 66mb pdf.

Use six nails and four spots of asphalt roofing cement for every full shingle for every full shingle as shown below. Apply 1 spots of asphalt roofing cement under each corner and at about 12 to 13 in from each edge. Before you begin make sure you re comfortable measuring laying out a job driving nails and cutting with a knife. Asphalt roofing shingles simply rely on the force of.

Briarwood installation 42 571 28kb pdf. Asphalt roofing cement should meet astm d 4586 type ii. Overlap each row at least 3 to 4 inches. Install drip edge and install 9 cant strips of roll roofing material along the rake and eaves edges gable ends and lower roof edge such that the roofing strip overhangs the roof deck by 1 4 to 3 8.

Briarwood installation 42 spanish 761 06kb pdf. Castlebrook installation 42 586 96kb pdf. With one or two helpers you ll be able to shingle a 1 500 square foot roof in about two days. Make sure to expose 5 in.

Understand the physics of how a sloped shingle roof works. Install new flashing metal. Nail metal flashing called drip edge along the bottom edge of the roof deck near the gutters. Tear off the old shingles.

Prepare roof edges cant strips. Step one in any roofing project is always safety first. Roof shingle installation instructions. Use four roofing nails per shingle as indicated on package instructions six nails in high wind areas.

Of the shingle tabs where the bottom edge of the tab meets the top of the cutout. Asphalt shingles are an effective roof covering material for sloped roofs that can be successfully used on slopes as low as 2 12. With respect to shingle application roof slopes from 2 12 to less than 4 12 18 5 are called low slope roofs while roof slopes of 4 12 or greater are called normal or standard slopes.