How To Prepare A Roof For Shingling

what's going on ladies and gentlemen your average roofer here and today we're going to be going over how to properly prep a roof for shingling as you can see i'm starting out with my ice and water shield i know some guys like to do it after their drip edge i like to do it before that way uh it has full adhesion to the roof deck it doesn't miss that two inches along the bottom i i have most of the actual underlayment parts uh sped up here just because they're pretty boring nobody really cares but what's important here is making sure your ice and water shield is straight along the eaves and uh same with your paper just making sure it lays as flat as possible that way it's not holding the shingles up once you shingle over top of them so you can see i rip off the top row of paper as i go like the backing paper and then i grab the bottom and i peel it all the way down you would know if you missed any nails while you were ripping because right here when you're pulling that paper it would be catching up and snagging on every single nail but you can see here i got pretty much all my nails so here i'm just tacking the corner everything else is in my way and i'm making sure i set it straight on that that top tar line on the ice and water shield that way i can keep it pretty straight uh it's nice to do your paper as straight as possible as well that way when you're shingling you can kind of tell if your shingles are going off course a little bit make sure you nail this pretty good usually we'd use cap nails if we're going to leave it overnight but because we're going to shingle this one right away we just use regular roofing nails inch and a quarter making sure all your nails are sitting flat that way they're not penetrating the shingles once you do end up shingling the roof continue that all the way down to the end of the roof right there everything's caught i'm getting angry yelling get down here to the end you just cut it off flush to the gable end of the roof making sure it's tucked underneath the wall flashings everything like that annoying when you run out of coils it's a lot easier to with two people you can have one person roll out and then the other person nailing it behind them in this case uh there was only two of us on the job site and uh we both had stuff to do so unfortunately i had to prep it alone again here too you can see i'm kind of fighting the wind the wind's blowing it all over the place that's super annoying but you do your best with what you got right there making sure it's under the step flashing here again i'm making sure it's the length of my step flashing so it'll tuck right into the wall i don't actually tuck it in the video i forgot to put that in but uh once i get it set here i go back i'm fighting the wind again you can see it blowing in my face right here it got a little bit bubbly on me this is what you're trying to avoid this isn't actually too bad but any major major wrinkles in it will uh will show so try to avoid that as much as possible right there is what i'm talking about i don't tuck it under the step flashing but i do that after once i'm shingling the roof always cut out your vent holes while you're there that way nobody steps in them and uh breaks a leg or anything like that throw everything out of my way wrap it right over the hip that way i got a full coverage unfortunately on this one i ran slightly short on the top but uh not a big deal if i was like i said if i was leaving it for the night then i would definitely put wrap at the top there but because i'm gonna shingle it not a big deal so done with the wrap now we're gonna go over drip edge kind of went back to normal speed on this just so you can see really what's going on that drip edge runs all the way flush to the front corner where there's a little uh return on the house that way when it gets shingled and drip edge on that they can tie into each other nice here basically you're just running them all the way down straight flat against the roof um and tucking them over top of the eavesdrop that way any water that drips off goes into the trough and not behind it i'm gonna nail it every 18 inches or so 2 feet 18 18 inches overlapping about 2 inches on all the seams now i'm going to come down to the end here and you're going to see my bottom one i'm going to cut flush on the eaves once i get to the gable end i'm going to cut it at the gable flush so right here you're gonna see my ice and water is actually overhanging a little bit but yeah you're gonna cut this off flush to your gable end this cut was actually a little bit uh a little bit long so i had to actually recut it after just because the ice and water shield i wasn't really paying attention but you'll see here i'll actually push down on the ice and water shield and then i will actually uh i'll cut that piece short again so this one's going to go all the way up into your wall and it's going to overlap the one on your eaves i always tack the top that way i can get my measurement down here and cut it without it falling out of place i always go just slightly about a sixteenth bigger than the uh the one on the eaves like longer so it overhangs down a little bit into the trough just preference for me see right here you can see i noticed the ice and water so my cut was big so i end up re-cutting this piece and then tack this one in place every 18 inches to two feet and this is the gable one because it's coming down onto the return you kind of want to match the pitch of that which is what i'm doing here with my pencil just kind of matching the pitch so uh when he uh one the other guy on the job site did the returns here so when he comes up with his uh ridge cap there uh it'll just look nice ties in nice gives a nice clean edge so you're gonna cut this to that to match that pitch and you're gonna see i also don't go all the way down with this one and i also don't nail the bottom of it no a couple staples were in my way here always make sure you get the stuff out of your way don't just go over it so now you're going to put this in place making sure that cut you made on the bottom is flush to those ridge caps and like i said you notice i didn't nail the bottom i actually don't nail the bottom that way in case the the one or whoever is doing the um returns has area or play in it so they can move it around to get their ridge cap underneath now i'm cutting this one vertical to the ridge line and cut it right off and you'll see here i'll push it down that way it doesn't poke up into the shingles now i start with my cable starter again coming all the way down to the bottom almost but i don't nail the bottom that way in case he has to run his ridge cap up there there's nothing actually in his way no nails holding him or preventing him from actually getting his ridge cap underneath the shingles so you'll see i'll do it here too so i get my bottom starter two nails in one spot but you see i left them out in the corner that way he can get underneath and right here i'm just matching the distance i kind of measure with my finger about one knuckle and i always skip that what would be the fourth nail and i leave a gap there that's just for my water line on my shingles so there's no uh there's no nails in the waterway finish off my gable here they can be pretty much nailed anywhere um you always try to keep it uh uneven spacing that way they're nice and tight on the gable that way no wind ever pulls your shingles off and right there again you can see i'm skipping the one nail that way they're not in the water lines this is common practice this is pretty much how most roofers are gonna install the roof um if there's anything else you guys recommend that i do differently comment down below i'd love to know uh i've been doing this for almost eight years now so if there's some kind of better way of doing this let me know then you're just going to continue to run your starters all the way across until you reach the next gable it's pretty much as simple as that it's not a difficult task it's pretty easy actually prepping the roof is the easy part shingling it is what actually takes some kind of uh common sense grab some more starters come down here and you're going to see some tricks here that actually when i showed you how to do starters on a roof um i actually did wrong and then i had comments telling me what i did wrong and you'll see how i corrected them here i actually uh i do listen to your guys advice when you give it to me so [Music] so you'll see that starter comes down this one comes all the way down to me flush with it and you'll see i didn't nail exactly on the bottom edge and there's a reason why right here so that way i can cut that one an angle they're overlapping the proper way but now i have full tar adhesion along the eaves and along the rake and throw one more up the rake just to finish it off and just like that that's how you prep a roof this one i forgot to cut but i'm showing you here i did end up cutting it so guys if you like this kind of video be sure to give it a thumbs up be sure to like and subscribe if you have any tips on how to install better let me know i'll see you guys next time stay freaking average

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021