How To Roof A Valley With Dimensional Shingles

Shingles protect sloping rooftops from the effects of rain snow and hail while providing an attractive crown for the house.

How to roof a valley with dimensional shingles.

Begin to install roof shingles on either roof face. You can use a straight edge to achieve a straight cut. Step 6 install valley flashing if you have an open valley install new w shape metal or vinyl valley flashing to fit directly over the old flashing. Attach it by driving nails into the outside edges only.

There are between 3 5 bundles of shingles per roof square. When the shingles from one side of the valley are laid across the valley while shingles from the opposite side are trimmed back approximately two inches from the center of the valley. Lay one and two tab shingles as you near the valley so full size shingles will run across the valley. When you reach the valley lay the shingles over the valley and trim the edges to the chalk line.

Drive nails at high points on the underlying roof the bottoms of the shingles. How to lay shingles. The open woven and closed cut methods are demonstrated. This is just a dem.

The lower edge of a tab on a shingle. Nail down each valley shingle at least two inches 50 mm back from the chalk line. Snap a chalkline 2 to 3 inches past the valley center on the top layer of shingles. Roof one side of the valley running the shingles across it.

Stop nailing 6 inches from the center. Shingle the other side of the valley the same way. This is a roofing demonstration of how to install shingles on one side of your roof diy. The two pieces should meet neatly at the corners.

I then move the shingle to the uppermost course on the roof plane line up the mark on the shingle with the valley center and again mark the corner. This video demonstrates the proper installation technique for installing roofing valleys. To shingle out of the valley with laminated shingles lay a shingle down as a gauge and mark the corner at the bottom left and top right of the roof.