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How to shingle a 4 sided garage roof.
Hammer the nail into the top part of each shingle.
Continue to nail horizontal rows of shingles onto the roof.
Each row should overlap the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm not less.
The ridges both along the top of the roof and the hip lines are covered by cutting three tab shingles into threes and nailing the individual pieces on so they overlap.
This video will show you how to install roof shingles.
Place the new shingles row by row fastening them with galvanized roofing nails on the top half of each.
This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more.
Use a nail at each end of the shingle and one in the center.
Insert wire coiled roofing nails into a pneumatic roofing gun.
Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles.
Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof.
Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap.
The tab sits under.
Every 5 inches make a new mark until you get to the rop of the roof.
A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles.
Place two nails in the shingle 1 inch in from the ends on either side of the ridge in the tab part of the shingle.
Use roll roofing as an edge along the lower eaves of the garage.
This is to cover the garage roof under the notches of the first layer of shingles.
Repeat this on both sides of the roof.
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The shingles should jut out from 1 4 to 3 8 inch 7 to 1 cm over the drip edge.