HOW TO | A - Z ROOFING (PART 1)

what's up youtube zach with veteran construction here we have another video i built this platform today um you know probably as good as someone would build a doghouse at best but anyhow we're going to be showing you guys some of the basics of roofing here be it nailing how to use a hook blade i'm gonna take it super basic you know because it's either something that i struggle with in the beginning or i've seen somebody struggle with so um let's get right into the order of operations here okay you're gonna wanna put on your aluminum at least your gutter apron first before you dry in a roof let's pretend this is a big old roof and you have an open deck it's going to go gutter apron then you're drying material and then after that you can put your drip drip edge on to cap your sides so how you put on this gutter apron very zip very very simple some people will hang it off like this i've seen people do that because the drip edge has this this bend in it um i don't waste time with that you know what i'm saying so i just get it straight flush give it a send and you want to make sure this is nice and tight and you nail it on now this piece was long enough to go across this thing but i wanted to show you guys how to seam it so it's real simple you just get it somewhere close and you pick a couple inch of an overlap somewhere in there no need for a pencil or to be real precise stupid snips and you just cut that okay and then you just put this on flush you don't want to you don't want a super big overlap otherwise it can get a little bulgy but a couple inches or something that's not that serious all right so ice and water shield what i do feel that top you're going to want to be a lot more careful than i than i'm being today if you're out on a sunny day but you basically just want to get this set here give a few in the center roll it out a few few feet make sure you pull it up hit the top again roll it all the way out and then good trick for rolling rolling these up is always grab half because you're gonna have a lot of 30 footers grab half you twist it up and go like this and look at that doesn't come apart so then just do it again make sure the bubbles are out get it there you're always going to want to cut this clean if uh well usually you'll be cutting it off with a roll i pre-cut it so it wasn't stupid all right and then you can just peel this a lot of times it'll just fold back down on itself maybe i'll show a clip of uh one of the times i showed ice and watershed so then what i'll do is i'll come down here i always get my ends and then you're going to want to hit the bottoms too and usually i'll use i'll only staple the top and the bottoms on ice and water shield but i do see a lot of people staple in the center i feel like that's a little you know that's room for error so and one more thing also guys if you're up on the roof you're up on that roof and you're stepping on this stuff ice shield is a lot more slick than felt paper so i've actually seen someone go off standing on just the ice and water shield on an a12 when they were just fine walking the felt so you guys got to be careful of that also when you're working it when you're laying it out don't step on it because it's easy to be working up here rolling out the roll step on it right here and then it's a you can't get that thing back up after you step on it on a sunny day all right so this is a 612 pitch by the way but anyway i'm going to show you guys how i do this here all right so what i do is i get this set on that bottom give it a few don't roll it out too far i always set this on the bottom when people used to do tar paper we always set three cap nails in the center i'm setting them i set it on the bottom get it nice and tight i try not to put these in a row just because uh you know if you're uh if water were to ever get through when they're in a row you're going to get a lot more water in because staples do leak also especially if you have a surprise rain overnight you don't have a shingle so usually i'll have somewhere to stand i got a straight blade for synthetic when you come on the other side of this you got to be careful well i have to be careful because i built this stupid but you want to just use a little pressure a lot of time with your feet i'll do it like this so i'm doing it opposite way here i really just built enough back here so that i can do cap i seen you guys smack his palm one time idiot good thing he's fired all right i also cut this drip edge short just so i can show you guys how to do these seams here first off we have to find this angle because if you look a lot of guys they'll just leave it like that you know a gutter comes out to here fascia comes underneath i think that's all right or they'll leave it like this which better not to it's really hard to get in here and trace um so i know this is a 6 12. so the way i the way i've learned over the years is about that much it's about a four you know a perfect 45 is a 12. but i'm going with a six so i'm gonna be i would say probably about in there so we'll give that a shot shakes them with me over here we'll see how that looks i don't think it could have gotten much better all right so that's ready to get installed okay so now we have to make this connection but we've also got to put um this piece on because we got to make this match up over here so all right so i'm just going to drop a piece in here randomly okay and give myself enough so you always want to do the back side first if you're looking at it from the front of the house right so the back side just goes up even with the point so wherever center is which is about right there all right so we need this piece to come in here and it needs to do its thing okay so a lot of times i'll do this piece first i'll get this butted tight make a knife mark and we'll get that to go oh damn i am shaking something like that now i can mark over here about a half inch okay usually you want seams so our factory ends but it's not that serious a lot of this doesn't show all right so we got that in there but look at if i go like this and i go ahead and send that and then i go a lot of people they'll just do this and that doesn't always look terrible sometimes this will bulge out especially at that overlap so what i do is i'll come through i'll take this piece here at about a half inch overlap and i'll cut it like that and what that's what that's doing is it's giving a false overlap right there it's giving a false overlap on the front so you see how that goes and then this piece i still got to cut so now we're good boom you see how that came out right here now if you're looking from the front of the house you won't see the seam there not that it matters a whole lot when you see an overlap here one of my guys showed me that and that's one of the that's probably the best method i've ever seen on connect and drip edge one more thing real quick you guys a short piece like this you don't want to go much shorter than that i see a lot of guys put pieces of drip edge on that are this big or that big it's pretty unacceptable i'd say no less than 10 inches i mean let's be real the homeowner probably likes her drip edge just like she likes her men no less than 10. [Laughter] next we have starter there's a lot that goes into the starter okay first things first let's figure out how we're going to snap our line all right if you're just starting out like on something this size i wouldn't snap a line um what you're going to want to do is you're going to get this roughly three quarters of an inch maybe an inch overhanging that gutter apron okay the minimum is a quarter so if you've got if you've got a really wavy building and it comes out in the middle to be right right here right there about a quarter then that'll be okay if not you'll have to re-snap a line and compensate for it but for the most part most buildings are going to be fairly straight you can put it on like this the top the tar line is actually a pretty decent thing to measure off of but you

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 11 2020