How to Properly Install Three-Tab and Architectural Shingles on a Roof

[Music] foreign [Music] so in this video I'm going to go over the proper method for installing both three tab and architectural shingles I'm going to be covering the basic layout and installation considerations here so if you need more information on nailing and shingling specific areas of the roof such as valleys hips and working around Dormers and chimneys please go to the separate video sections in the series for those areas [Music] so as I've mentioned before there are a variety of ways to apply different shingles correctly certain specialty shingles have layout techniques that are different from what I'll describe here so remember always check the directions for each particular type of shingle that you're using fortunately the directions are printed on each bundle of shingles so you can just you should just look at the bundle to see uh to see if the method that you're going to use is correct and this is the back of the one of the bundles of shingles that we're going to use and can see it sort of starts at the beginning and goes to the end it's kind of hard to just follow this and do it do the whole roof correctly it's probably why you're watching this video but always reference this especially for the layout techniques that we're going to describe and it'll tell you which is which which are good ideas and which are which types of techniques you shouldn't follow so the techniques I'm about to describe as I've said are going to work with both a standard three tab and Architectural also called the laminated shingle there are alternate methods for installing both of these varieties of shingles so I want to be clear about that I'm going to describe one technique that'll work for both varieties okay if you need read the manufacturer's instructions and want to try another pattern go for it if you're working with your buddy that's helping you and says he's done this before and tells you he can do it a different way I'd be real careful you want to always read the package and make sure that the layout uh setup that you're using for that shingle is approved by the manufacturer for that type of shingle I've seen a lot of problems I go over that in one of my videos with different layouts being wrong for that particular type of shingles so um make sure to follow one of the manufacturers recommended techniques hey everybody thank you so much for watching this video please hit subscribe so you can be a part of my channel you can watch all my videos that cover complete stages of both shingle and metal roofing there's tons more content coming out soon about all aspects of roofing including skylights and trim and sheds and whatever you're interested in so before you start with either the of the three tab or architectural shingle you're going to want to chalk lines on the roof to help you with your layout again the layout we're going to use is three tab or architect friendly however if you're working with an architectural shingle keep in mind that the reveal may be different than what we're doing on the layout here so you'll need to adjust the layout measurements accordingly again on the shingle package it's going to tell you exactly how far to make your reveal for that area since we've already got the starter shingles on here we're only going to need to Mark out lines for the field shingles keep in mind that while the field shingles are 12 inches wide the reveal of each angle on a standard pitch roof is five inches so ultimately the lines that we make are going to be five inches apart going up the roof I've mentioned this before and you're going to see me using this in a couple sections of the video but to make your marks as visible as possible I love using this type of silver Sharpie it shows up great on this black felt paper and just helps you be a little more accurate as you're doing a roof if you can see your lines really well pencils tend to blend in a lot depending on the sunlight so um so for demonstration purposes we're going to go ahead and chalk a line for each course of shingles once you get comfortable with doing shingles you can probably skip every other line and make a mark every 10 inches you could also skip the the first line is as pretty pretty easy to line up the the first shingle as as it's going to be even with the bottom shingle but like I said for this purposes just to make it real clear we're going to go boom boom boom up the roof all right so pulling your tape from the bottom of the starter shingle you're going to make a mark of 12 inches because that's the width of the first shingle it's actually 12 and 8. I'm going to keep it simple here and call it 12 inches your second Mark is going to be at 17 inches so that's five inches uh up from 12. so after that Mark every line is going to be five inches apart so you go from 17 to 22 to 27 and so on at the roof go ahead Mark your lines here go to the other end of the roof and mark the same lines make sure you're making the same the same distances at the other end of the roof and go ahead and snack the lines [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so once you got your lines on we're ready to begin running our shingles so we're going to start uh let me show you how to do the three tab shingle again this method will work basically the same for architectural shingles um now as I understand it in some areas of the country it is common to lay out your shingle with a staggered pattern so that the tabs in the in the channel in between them don't all line up and it's possible to do it that way but for simplicity's sake I'm going to teach you the technique called six up six off which is going to leave us with a regular pattern with the three tabs again Architects are different so they're going to look staggered so on a sectional roof like this you could you could really start on either end if it's wide open in this case because we've got the Dormer back here behind me we're going to start over here on the left side so it's going to be real easy to get started and then we'll work our way over to the dorm and the valleys and stuff like that so if you're right-handed like me it's easier to begin on the left side because the shingles be over here and you're working with the gun or your nail hammer on the right hand side so if you're left-handed you might find it easier to start on the right side of the roof that's up to you so most often though you're where you started going to be determined by what else you're shingling over to so you're going to start by applying a full shingle again that keeps it easy and we made the allowances for that with the three with the starter shingle here by cutting it short so that the tabs don't line up you want to keep make sure to keep it flush with both the outside of the starter shingles on the on the Gable end and also with the bottom edge of the starter shingle um as I discussed in the fastening section you're going to use four nails per shingles in this on this first shingle you want to make sure not to nail too close to the outside edge over here normally you put you put your shingle right at the at the edge of the shingle we don't want our nail to go through the drip edge or anything like that so we're going to bring it in a little bit farther that's kind of common sense but just make sure you don't shoot through your drip edge and that you're actually nail it into some wood it's going to be a little bit further back the others the other nails are going to go always going to go low right here below the below the glue line above each Channel and again over here at the outside edge of the shingle so the next shingle going up the roof is going to be six inches shorter so what you're going to do is cut off six inches off the left side of the shingle okay over here you don't want to cut it off the the shingle over here so we'll have a nice Factory butt joint going over here and a nice little tip is that on these three tab shingles they've made a little Notch six inches in which is right in the middle of this tab so it might be hard to see on the camera but there's a little Mark right here so that's going to help you line up your six inches Cuts as you go go up the roof so we're going to get it lined up here again it's on lined up even with the outside of the starter shingle we got it lined up nice on our line and we're going to go ahead and again you want to be careful about getting your nail too close to the edge so we can just put two Nails right here over top of this this Channel and then another nail here and then again on the edge here the following shingle which is going to be the third shingle up the roof gets another six inches cut off of it which is going to take off a full tab remember your tabs and your three tab shingles are one foot wide 12 inches wide so we went six inches off we took another six inches off that which is a foot which is the full tab here so I think you're starting to get the idea here we're just moving our way up the roof and again same idea keep it keep it flush with the outside edge keep it even with our mark up here and we're gonna we're gonna nail it the same as the other ones foreign so the fourth shingle in our series here is going to be another six inches shorter um which you can make this shingle 18 inches wide this is half of the full three tab shingle and it's just going to go on just like the other ones I think you're getting the idea here um one point that I want to make about when I nailed this third course is you want to be careful where you put this nail again you can't get too much closer to the outside because there's nothing to nail to over here but you also want to make sure that the nail is not going to be going to be as far away from this joint as possible so I could tell by looking at this course where the joint was going to fall because you'll see it's It lines up right here so when I put this nail in I just try to keep it as far away from this joint as I could while still finding some plywood underneath it here so basically you can line that up nail it in place just like the other ones and so on until we get to the sixth shingle which is and then we're going to just start back again with the full with a full shingle and move on off to the right here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we've reached the six course up which you can see left us with a tab that's six inches wide up here I put put two Nails in here again always make sure not to get too close to the edge I got two two Nails in here and we've got the six courses on so that completes our pattern we can go ahead and start filling in going this way with full full shingles we can't go any smaller than the six inch tab so the next shingle up and you'll see this in a second is going to be a full shingle just like this first course is down here until you reach the other side of the roof or some obstruction like this Dormer all the shingles you're going to be used from from here on off and these six courses are going to be full sized and nailed just as we described in in that section as I've shown you here once you reach the seventh chorus you just start back with the same six up six off pattern until you reach the 12th course when it starts all over again you can see we've been working up here we've worked over to our Dormer um this could be this this tip I'm about to show you could be used when you're coming into a dormer a chimney Skylight or if you've reached the other side of the roof and you're going to have to trim your your shingles off uh shorter so instead of using a tape measure to figure out the length of the shingle the easiest way to to measure it and cut it is to to do it just like this so what you're going to do is flip the shingle over 180 degrees so it's upside down and the outside edge is flush with the with whatever you're coming up to you're going to make a Mark here and then make a straight cut on that line then when you flip the shingle over you're going to be good to go and the shingle is going to be trimmed to the right length and you never had to get your tape measure out foreign so now we're on to fastening uh the architectural shingles uh this uh just so you know this is the CertainTeed Landmark Pro weatherwood is the color and on these shingles it does differ and you need to check but for these architectural shingles the reveal is going to be five and five eighths of an inch so that's a little bit different than our uh the reveal for the three tab shingles which is five inches so you're going to need to adjust your chalk lines to make a mark every five and five eighths of an inch rather than five inches and to apply these shingles we're going to use basically the same technique as with the three tabs and that's going to leave us with that same diagonal pattern so to start with we're going to take a full shingle and line it up with the bottom of the starter shingle on the corner just just the same as with the three tabs [Music] so I got the shingle on here and we go into this in far more detail in the the section on fastening but I want you to just remember you want to nail directly on the line here and this this shingle not all architectural shingles but this shingle has several lines that are marked on here that indicate where you can put the nails in this case I'm always going to go with the lower the lower place so we've got four Nails in here um and you may not be able to pick up the Blue Line real well on the camera but uh there's a blue line on here down here where we put the shingles again don't you don't want to get too close to the edge because there's really nothing over here to nail to um you're going to put the nails about one inch in from the edges and 13 inches apart in the field so again in the section on fasting I cover this but the next shingle is going to have a have a break right here and you want to make sure that this second nail is in anywhere near where the butt joint of the other shingle is all right so this is going to be the second course of shingles I've gone and cut six inches off the left side again we want the factory Edge where we're going to butt over here on the right so I've got six inches off the left and it's going to go down here I've got my mark my line chalked up here where it's going to go and we're going to nail it in right there and you can see the point that I was making earlier is our first Nails here and my second Nails over here so the butt joint of these two shingles is going to be real far away from either of these nails so any water that gets in behind the shingle isn't going to ever reach that nail for the third course cut 12 inches off the left side of the shingle and again it's just going to go in right here on our line all the way over to the side and right here making sure that nails are away from the butt joint all right so for the fourth course we took another six inches off the left side so it says six inches quarter uh excuse me six inches shorter than the last course and then for the fifth chorus we're just going to keep it the same it takes six inches off and this shingle is going to go on go on here and there's not going to be a butt joint over top of this shingle so you don't have to be as concerned with the placement of the nails you definitely want to keep them low but as far as where it goes in here because there's going to be a full shingle that goes on top of this one so now we've established the uh the pattern that's going to carry us through the rest of the roof keep running the shingles in this five core course pattern as you go up the roof and that'll get you there from here on out just like with the three tabs it's going to be full shingles from here to the other side of the roof or to an obstruction like this and then when you get to this this row you're going to have a a full shingle here and start with the six inches off going up all right so to end this section I want to leave you with an important tip on how not to run your Architects there's another common pattern for running three tab shingles and it's called the racking method and if you're doing it you probably know what it is but it's where the shingles are all run vertically up the roof in in rows like that okay offset it's a perfectly acceptable technique for three tabs and it's probably the most common technique for three tab shingles it's fine for three tabs however when Architects came around a lot of people started running Architects with the racking method and no matter what anybody tells you you should never run architectural shingles with a racking technique I see it done a lot and when you put it down it's going to be fine but I've seen big problems down the road with architectural shingles that are racked like this all right so I'm going to show you real quick the safe way to install one of these roof brackets or they're also called roof jacks so the key to installing one of these Jacks is to find the rafter underneath the decking you don't want to just nail this straight into the decking because it's going to be holding a lot of weight so you want to find good purchase on a rafter I also want you to use a heavy duty nail this is a 16 penny uh Sinker nail you could use a ring shank now if you wanted but these 16 penny nails are going to be good this is going to ensure that you go way down deep and hold really well into the roof rafter below so once you find the roof rafter where you're going to hang this you're going to get this lined up on the rafter and then sink two Nails into the rafter where it'll hit on one of these little hooks now I've I've stopped the shingles here to put this in to show you so you want to as you go along and you come to this point you're going to want to hang this here and you want to start the bracket a little bit above where the next shingle is going to cover over but not too high up and you don't want to have to put any of the nails through the face of this shingle so I've got it right here the the nails are going to go in right here into the top of the shingle and then we're going to bring the next shingle down on top of it [Music] foreign so we've got this set up I brought the next shingle in and it's going to get going over top and so what the key point is is that you want to put these these two Nails in below the point where this line of shingles is gonna or where this line of nails is going to go and that's because what you're going to do later after you're done with this is let's say this is done you're done working with your bracket you want to take it off kind of Jack it up you're going to slide it up off the nails that's why it's got these hooks like this slide it up off the nail you can take it down and then um you've got those two Nails under there you can lift this up and drive the nails in below it you don't want to leave these sticking up a little bit now that the now that the brackets off the the nails are sticking up a little bit but want to make sure to come in and drive those down so I want to show you how to overcome a common obstacle that you may encounter on your roof a lot of roof designs have a section like this where the the eve line like where the like imagine the gutters right here goes along and then for whatever reason it bumps down it might be like a little porch roof or an addition on the house or whatever so it's going along it goes down okay so you're gonna start over here and you're going to start your pattern stair stepping up this way but when you come here you've got to go down and meet it here now chances are this particular section of roof is not going to be evenly divisible by five or five and five eighths whatever the reveal on the shingles that you're using is so if you just took this pattern and went went down the roof on it you'd end up with a really small tab or like a really big one or it wouldn't work out but to make this look good in the end and also function properly we want to want to find a way to keep these courses going up here to meet this uh the starter line even okay and I'm going to show you how to do that now so what you want to do is go ahead and you've got your starter shingle and your starter course of shingles you've brought it all the way across the roof that's really easy you've established your pattern you're going to go ahead get your starter shingles on at the very lower part of this eve okay and you can go ahead and put those on because the reveal is going to be the same no matter what these These are the reveal hanging over the roof is going to be the same I should say so you want to go ahead and do that and you also want to find find a line going down so that the you match up the butt joints and the tabs in your pattern is going to work out right so snap a line going down so that you can line the courses up and here's the trick okay so you've got your first course starter course on you've got this starter course on and you're going to measure between the top of this starter course and the top of this start of course okay and so in this example it's 14 inches well 14 inches is not easy evenly divisible by five so if you just ran these next shingles going up the roof on a five inch reveal what would happen is when you got to this very last one you're going to have it's going to be much shorter so we don't really want that to end up so this is this is called the slant rule trick and I showed this to you in the section when we were doing The Valleys I believe same rule applies here so what you're going to do is keeping your tape on the top of this line and again the top of these shingles is your reference you just you start at 14 and you move it over until you get a number that's divisible by five or whatever the reveal on your shingles is so in this case we're just doing a regular three tab so it's five inches and then you just go ahead and you keep you make your mark at the same place that you'd normally make it every five inches and then you come over here do the same thing we have Mark at 10 and the market five and that is going to then you snap a line here you snap a line here and that is going to sort of shorten up the courses a little bit it's going to keep it even so that when you shingle up here um it's going to going to meet this where it should I'd also add that when you're nailing these shingles on for the first time you want to put your nails High okay just to begin with to hold these shingles on you want to put all your nails High because when you bring this next course under you've got to slip it under if you've got your nail in the right place you can't slip it far enough behind the shingle I mean this would be obvious to you when you got to that point but if you think about it while you're doing it put your nails High slip your shingle under and then go ahead and re-nail it again in the correct places low so that it goes through the shingle below it okay [Music] if you'd like the complete series for yourself on how to do shingle or metal roofing you can go to my website roofingintelligence.com and there you can get a membership to either stream or you can get a DVD in the mail it'll show you how to do all the steps for either of those types of roofing enjoy this video thanks so much for watching

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Length: 24min 21sec (1461 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 28 2023