So most popular shingles are sold such that three bundles are needed to cover one square of roof area.
How many bundles in one square of roof shingles.
Normal architectural shingles are approximately 3 bundles per square.
Find the total square footage of your roof by multiplying the width by the length and then divide that number by 100 and you will get the number of squares you need to cover.
It typically takes three bundles of standard three tab asphalt shingles to cover one square on a roof.
Four bundles to a square.
Therefore order one bundle for every sheet of roof sheathing you have.
Typically it takes three bundles of standard sized standard weight shingles to cover 100 square feet of roof surface.
Therefore a 40 square roof would require approximately 120 bundles of shingles.
Asphalt shingles are typically packaged with this in mind but if a package of shingles covered an entire 100 square foot square it would be too heavy to handle.
If you are using three bundles to a square calculating bundle numbers is simple.
A square is 100sq feet if your using some of the heavier roofing most one bundle of shingle covers about 33 square feet of roof hence around 850 bundles of shingles will be needed for 28000 square feetroof.
Of your roof area which is close to the sheet coverage area of 32 sq.
But be careful not all shingle brands are packaged three bundles to a square.
Each square will need three bundles of shingles to cover it.
This would be 87.
Each of your bundles can cover 33 3 sq.