House Roofing Procedure

Complete weathering in your roof with the asphalt roofing paper.

House roofing procedure.

Begin this layer at the bottom of the roof and add it in horizontal rows with a slight overlap to prevent. Install the drip edge on the gable ends of the roof after you finish installing your underlayment. Start at the bottom side of the gable and overlap the sections of drip edge a few inches as you work your way up the roof see figure a. A plastic and rubber flange is used to seal around penetrations such as plumbing vents.

Lay the lower edge of the flange over the top of the lower shingles and the upper edge is positioned underneath the upper shingles. Use a tin snips to cut the drip edge to size. Cut the shingles to fit around the flange s dome. Use tin caps approximately 2 inch 5 cm round metal discs under roofing nails to keep felt from tearing and blowing away if there might be wind before shingles are put on.

Nail it every couple of feet. Adhere the shingles adjacent to the flange with roofing tar. This is very important because only when you have a solid base for your roofing structure your shingles will stay intact. Roll out a single layer of roofing felt or tar paper which serves as a moisture barrier.

Space them by 6 inches. In the same manner you did with the drip mold mark the areas you need to nail with chalk lines. For roofing felt synthetic roofs such as epdm tpo and pvc and metal roofs you will need nails to fasten them to your roofs.