DIY Metal Roofing Installation, Basic How-To Video

what's up guys how's it going in today's video I'm working on a DIY metal roof this video here is just a DIY video so make sure you contact a professional before you start installing your metal roofing uh basically this video is just for entertainment purposes if you pick up some info on here that's great I'm just a DIY so I'm not a roofer and basically I'm just sharing information in these videos it's just entertainment and let's get to our project so in this video here I'm not stripping the shingles I'm installing it with the shingles already on the roof nice thing about metal roofing is you can install a little bit at a time you can see here I have uh let's say about 40% of the roof done and basically I installed that on the weekend so next weekend I can then continue on with the strapping here and I can then finish the whole roof there's many ways to go about this now you can remove the shingles and then you can put down a membrane or you can put down tar paper and then you can strap it and put on your metal or or you can put the metal right onto uh the plywood Surface after you've put down an asheld uh underlay or or a membrane or you can go right over top of the shingles now I've seen people do that and they say it works fine but I would rather uh strap over top of the the shingles and then put the steel because this roof here you can see how bad the shingles are you can see they're raised up in spots and I figure if you put the metal right on top of that it's going to be really uneven um also this gives you an air gap between the wood and the steel and that that's a good idea as well all right so we're installing the strapping here and you have to place it every 24 in so from the top here you want to lay the first one straight down and then you can come down 24 off the top here and come down 24 the next one 24 and at the bottom you might have to put a filler strip in because you want the screws on 24 in so every panel is going to have the screws in here and then the next one here so what I've done is I've taken the ridge cap and I've laid the ridge cap onto the top here and this gives me an idea of where I want to place my strapping because if we don't have the strapping in the right spot of the ridge cap here then we're going to miss the screws so because we're going to be driving in screws about here in our panels we'll have a screw here and then 24 in down here so we want this ridge cap to be Center onto the strapping here and then we can then measure down 24 and just continue down the roof so installing the strapping is not really that difficult uh basically all you have to do is Lay one down here and then you're going to place your top one where you're going to have your ridge cap uh mounted down to and then you can measure down from this one here 24 in so we're going to be 24 in on Center all the way down to the bottom you might have to put a filler strip in so you always end up on 24in centers so we have a foot overhang on this roof your roof uh may be different so you have to measure in and see the overhang uh basically from we know that there's going to be a truss in here somewhere we know basically a foot uh let's say 13 and a half inches over on this roof there's going to be a truss so we can throw our measuring tape on here and go across and then the next truss is going to be 24 in from this one here so basically we're 24 and then 24 24 depending on uh if your roof is on 24in centers or it's on 16in centers usually they're on 24in centers you want to install the screws right into the trusses so they're secure down before you install any metal you want to install the e trim at the bottom and the Gable trim uh if not you can leave the screws out at the bottom and then you can slide the eve Trim in afterwards basically Gable trim just goes right up to the edge right on your strapping and you can overlap the piece at the bottom there and you see it fits on there nice and what I do is I just tack it down with some roofing nails um because you want it flat you don't want to head of a screw or a nail on this piece you don't have to secure this really that well because the screws of the the metal will be going through it so these pieces are 10 ft and I've caught one to fit so this piece is going to go up here this piece goes on and then the ridge cap is going to go over top uh after when the roof is done you can bring it up to there if you like so basically just tack those on and Tack them on at the bottom and then um we can start laying our panels we're almost there when you order your metal you want to order the metal the whole length of the roof right from the bottom right from the eve right to basically the peak uh now these are 15t lengths don't want to come up too far you're going to have a gap in here because the ridge cap is going to go over top here so you don't have to worry about this Gap here between the metal panels they really don't have to meet at the top because a ridge cap goes over and then we put in our closures the closures are the foam pieces that go in here and they seal it in from wind blowing in and such so basically all you got to do is lean these against the roof and then pull them up when you're up there and then we're going to square them up so we have to square up these panels because what's going to happen is if we don't Square them up on the roof uh then they're going to step off on us basically we pull a few panels up and then we can lay them in place and then Square it if you want to do it that way or you can do it with measurements the way I've done it before is just pull the panel up and lay them into place and then basically when you have it square and it hasn't stepped off at the bottom uh any then you can just tack it in I have a panel here it's ledged up and I have one installed basically tacked in so it's just tacked in place at the top so it won't move at the bottom this is where I want it and so what you want to do is you want to have the fat lip down so they call this one here the fat lip and see here it's larger than the other lip so we want that one down and then we're going to cover over top of this one with the smaller lip here so this is the smaller one so that one's going to lay on top of this one here we want to screw down the seams first because we want these seams nice and tight the most important thing of laying these panels out is to get the first one completely square and straight up and down on the roof so basically before you tack it in place you can then move it around a little bit to get it Square so what i' I've done is I've taken two panels I put two panels together I found that if you have two panels together you can move the two panels together and you can get them Square onto the roof these panels here are perfectly straight it's really important to get your first panel square with the roof now if the roof is not square and you place you just put your panel down and you go basically you just line it up with the original Gable from one end to the other end uh then what could happen is all your panels will be then crooked basically what you can do is you can just look from down here and you can see the overhang that I have over on this side I only have about 3/4 of an inch 1 in over here and on the other end I have about an inch and a quarter or so uh over there so we want a slight bit of overhang here and what I'm going to have to do is tip it out at the top so then these panels will be straight so I have my first panel there set and basically after you set your first panel all the other ones are going to run off of it so if that one's crooked then all the other ones are going to be crooked now it's kind of hard sometimes to get it perfect because the roof itself might not be square so it doesn't really matter that much if it runs off a little bit uh but you certainly don't want it running off too much because if you go from one end and you get down to the other end you might be too short if you don't want to spend the time trying to square it up with the strapping then you can just lay your panel and sort of square it uh with two panels together that's what I do and sort of move it until both the panels are basic Al squar so it really doesn't matter if this crease here like these creases line up on the other side because no one's going to see that get it as close as possible but it's hard to to get these to line up with both sides because one side of the roof might not be square so one side of the roof might be a little different than the other side so basically getting them to line up can be difficult common thing that's going to happen if your roof is not Square uh is the panels are going to start stepping off and you can see here this one you can see that there's it's a quarter inch off so basically you don't have to worry about that uh at the top here it's the bottom where you're you're going to worry if it steps off too far now you can cut it afterwards but it is difficult to cut so really you don't have to worry about the stepping off uh if it's just between a small Gap like a a half inch quarter inch all right so you have your first panel installed and you're going to install your next panel beside it most important thing when you're putting down these panels or screwing them down is to do the seams first so basically I've just tacked it in place I've laid the next one over done here is I've just locked the small lip over top of the fat lip and I've just put installed a screw so it's just tacked in place for now and I'm up at the top now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go right down to the bottom and I'm going to go up the ladder and then I'm going to throw a screw in at the bottom in the same spot but on the bottom and that's going to ensure that this seam here or these laps are then locked in place properly and then I'm going to come back up and I'm going to throw the screws in one here and I'm going to make my way down and and do this seam first and then what we can do is we can just come over to this side and we can then install the screws from from here all the way down in the pieces of the strapping so then this panel will be locked in place and then we can put on the next one uh if you want you can start installing the screws after you've locked in the seam okay so you can see the screw that I've tacked in at the top and now I'm at the bottom so I'm going to come down here and you can see that when we get down to the bottom here we can see that this panel can move if you watch it see how it can move over top of the lap so that's where why you want to lock in these panels first because what'll happen is if you start throwing in screws this could then move and you won't be locked in properly so that's why it's really important we can just line this up here down at the bottom here and we make sure that this is locked in nice and then we can just tack a screw right here I'm going to tack this in place and then I'm going to go back up and I'm going to start running these screws down the the lap here the screws are in for the seams you can see all the way up so that's locked in really well so what I can do is I can go come over here and then I can just tack it down this edge here and then I can lap the next panel on the screws you're using are these metal screws and you can see that they have a gasket on them there's a washer with a gasket I'll try to drive one down with the camera here I don't think you can really see it that well but basically put it here apply pressure okay so now it's bid into the wood you can see and I'll take the camera so I'm going to drive it down of course you can drive it down a lot faster and basically basically when it touches that's it that's all we want you can see how we can't move the washer but we haven't squished the rubber gasket underneath little Roofing you're going to install the screws in straight lines so basically in a straight row with your your uh strapping here and basically all you have to do is take some string go down to one end tie it to one of the screws tighten the screw down pull the string over here and then connect the screw to this end to your farthest side so from from that end to this end and then tighten the string and then all you have to do is just follow that string line and that'll give you a perfect nice straight row uh for your screws the placement of the screws basically what I do is I just put a screw here so this is your seam you're going to have two screws here at your seam we have one here one here then skip this one and then come over to here and then come over to here and then you're going to have two screws again when you start you're going to have two then you skip skip over one here and then skip over over to here let's see have two installing the ridge cap well what I've done here is I've taken the ridge caps and I've just laid them on temporarily so I've laid two pieces I have one down there they're in 10t lengths I have another one and I've laid them out why I do that is because then I can get it straight I can line it up and I can then you know take a look at it with the two pieces on there looks pretty good and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take a marker and I'm just going to this is just a washable marker and I'm just going to Mark a line beside the ridge cap so basically I'm just going to Mark in here in here and I'm going to go all the way down I've already done it so far so I'm going to go all the way down the reason why I'm putting this line on here is so then I know where to put my closures so the closures are the foam pieces that go in so basically they're going to go up about here they're going to be in the middle of this I have my closures here they're just foam pieces of foam and basically they lock in to each other they have um little little grooves in them tongue and groove so we can lock them in to each other the closures here are really important because they go up under here and they then seal this in because if blowing rain comes it'll just get right up under here and it'll make its way up to the top so the foam here these closures seal that in so we want the closure I put them right here I put them basically in the middle here and then we're going to drive a screw right in here so the screws that we install go right into here and here all the way across so they go into this uh the ridged part of the panel uh not into the flat part because if you drove it in here then it would it would bend this down so screws go in here foam's going to go in here so I'm going to start laying these out I've marked my lines I know where to put the Foams basically I I'm just going to install the Foams an inch and a half up from this line here so let's slide this back the line you can see here and I'm going to start installing these closures now basically they have sticky on them and you just stick them down so um each one locks into one another so we can start from either end it doesn't really matter this is so easy to do with the camera all right so basically this one here you can install over top of the fat lip if you like once you stick them down they they really stick well so um it can we can put it right about here inch and a half up so it locks onto there you can see and then you just stick it down right over there and we're just going to keep going we're going to go right down to the end with these closures we can lock this one in here's the the tongue here and the groove on this one lock it in keep going down all the way to the end and then you have to do it on this side as well and then we can install the uh ridge cap all right so I have the closures on you can see just going from one end to the other end and basically um they're stuck down once you stick them down you can't really move them they're locked right in so they're not perfectly straight but that's not a big deal I dropped my ridge cap down so I'm probably not going to be able to record uh installing this uh but it's pretty straightforward once you lay it down on top line it up with your lines and then drive your screws and you're going to drive the screws in in this area here basically so right in here and you're going to hit every single uh Ridge of the panel here all right guys well that was the steel roof installation and I still have to continue on with this uh but basically I've given enough information I think to get yourself started thank you for watching

Channel: kurtscottage

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Keywords: DIY roofing, metal roofing, steal roofing, kurtscottage, do it your self, wood straping, roofing, Repair, How-to (Website Category), Construction, installation of metal roofing

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Length: 17min 0sec (1020 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 07 2014