How To Shingle Hips The Peak Of A Roof

Overlap them as before and continue until you reach the top.

How to shingle hips the peak of a roof.

Find the dimensions of each of the roof s faces. Overlay the first shingle with the next nailing in the same manner as for the first shingle. The guys would cut a second shingle to overlap the back half of the first one. For trapezoidal roofs measure the bottom edge the top edge also known as the ridge and the distance between the 2 edges.

After both hips were finished the guys would place a shingle along the ridge. Then finish by placing the last caps at the very top of the roof. That s how the guys. Installing ridge cap and hip shingles on the hips you ll start at the bottom trimming the first piece so the corners of the hip shingles don t extend into the gutter.

The hip shingles continued all the way to the ridge and that last shingle was cut to length so as to avoid covering the open ridge rafter. Trim the very last shingle on each ridge as needed. Repeat this until you reach the topmost ridge and then repeat for every hip ridge. Bending and overlapping these flaps the guys would put two more nails to anchor it in place.

Start from the bottom edge of the ridge and secure each shingle with 1 1 2 inch nails.