How To Shingle Roof A Shed

Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm.

How to shingle roof a shed.

Handy home shows you universal shingling techniques that can be applied to any shed. Protect your wood shed from the elements by installing roof shingles. Shed roof shingle types 3 tab roof shingles. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge.

Each row of shingles overlaps the one below and a full shingle overlaps the joint between the sides of the shingles below it. Shingling a shed and want some tips. Roofing felt overlaps the sheathing and shingles overlap the paper. Shed build time lapse.

Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Watch and see how easy it is. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof. In this video i show you the basics of roofing.

I do this on my shed but these basic principals can be applied to your house as well. 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. Like composite or synthetic it is manufactured to resemble cedar slate or asphalt shingles. The most common asphalt shingle and have 1 4 slots cut out to form three 12 inch rectangular tabs in their bottom half.