Shingling A Shed Roof

Shingles keep water out in layers.

Shingling a shed roof.

Protect your wood shed from the elements by installing roof shingles. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Each row of shingles overlaps the one below and a full shingle overlaps the joint between the sides of the shingles below it. Handy home shows you universal shingling techniques that can be applied to any shed.

Shed roof shingle types 3 tab roof shingles. Sheds are important storage areas that have to be able to protect your possessions from the weather this is impossible however without a well shingled roof as water will just drip through and potentially damage everything inside shingling your shed roof is fairly simple and straight forward fortunately and if done correctly it won t need a replacement for some time. Watch and see how easy it is. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.

Roofing felt overlaps the sheathing and shingles overlap the paper. When shingling a shed roof with three tab shingles the standard asphalt covered tar backed shingles used on most residential roofs you will come to a point at which the top row must be finished with another type of shingle i e ridge cap shingles. Like composite or synthetic it is manufactured to resemble cedar slate or asphalt shingles. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof.

Rubber roof shingles a shingle made from recycled rubber mostly tires. Shingling a shed and want some tips. A shed roof is one that has a single sloping side. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm.

Shed build time lapse. The most common asphalt shingle and have 1 4 slots cut out to form three 12 inch rectangular tabs in their bottom half. In this video i show you the basics of roofing.