Installing Roof Shingles And Flashing

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Installing roof shingles and flashing.

Install your underlayment completely and your shingles up to where the wall begins so that the first piece of flashing or the corner flashing will rest on a shingle. Make sure to install flashing around the chimneys and walls. You will also need rake edge flashing for the sides of the roof. How to install roof flashing against a wall.

Begin by removing the shingles at the affected area and removing old flashing if present. Step flashing redirects the water back onto the shingle. To install the flashing piece on the first course place it over the end of the starter strip. To make corner flashing take your tin snips and cut a 45 degree line from an outside corner to the center fold.

The remaining siding on the sidewall will overlap the step flashing and nail. This how to video explores proper roof flashing installation for shingle roofing applications. If the roof meets a wall that is parallel to the shingles roof up to the wall then slip a long continuous piece of flashing under the siding and on top of the shingles. Place it so the tab of the end shingle covers it completely.

Use roofing nails to install the l shaped flashing flush with the roof and wall then cover it with roofing cement and reattach the roofer s felt. Flashing is installed to surround roof features such as vents. However when flashing crowne slate with its much larger 10 exposure the flashing piece would need to be 10 x 12. Overlap each row at least 3 to 4 inches.

Install the step flashing when the siding is installed it should be tucked behind this piece and then consecutive courses lapped over it. Continuous flashing against a sidewall is one way to install a roof but it s not the correct way. Nail metal flashing called drip edge along the bottom edge of the roof deck near the gutters. Then nail the new l shaped flashing under the builder s felt but above the fascia board.

Start by laying asphalt felt or other underlayment over the roof. Using your staple gun secure the felt to the roof. How to apply roof ventilation on shingles roof. Install new flashing metal.

Apply a flashing piece then a shingle then flashing as you would apply step flashing for a chimney. Secure the horizontal flange to the roof deck using two nails.