Learn how to put shingles

question - like putting shingles, excites many novice builders.Directly before the actual installation, it is necessary to take into account some of the nuances.

So, choosing the shingles as roofing, remember that the minimum roof pitch must be a minimum of eleven and a half degrees.

Shingles can not be installed on the insulation.Between the base, which is attached to the roof tiles and insulation, should be through the ventilation space.

To reduce the color discrepancy, before installation, sheets shingles be mixed randomly from different bundles and only then install it.

How to put shingles?

Substrate Preparation.The base must be rigid, solid flat and smooth surface.The reason may be OSB, grooved edging boards or moisture resistant plywood.

device ventilation gap.To neglect this step, you should not.

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Since ventilation is necessary to remove water vapor from the timber elements of truss construction, insulation and roofing material.

Flue must be installed on top of the roof, and the influx - at the bottom.

Installing underlayment.When the roof slope is more than eighteen degrees to carry out stacking the backing of the carpet only on the perimeter of the roof in the valley, on skates, end parts, eaves, around skylights and chimneys, at the junction of the roof to the walls.

Installing curtain strips of metal.Cornice strip mounted on top of the carpet backing overlapping two centimeters and fasten roofing nails in a zigzag manner in steps of ten centimeters.

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Mounting end metal bars.These strips are mounted on a backing in a carpet edge portion of the roof.

Installation valley bituminous carpet.Valley carpet is glued special mastic and fixed with nails in increments hundred millimeters.

Drawing chalk lines.These lines help to align the bitumen tile vertical and horizontal slopes, and around pipes and roof windows.

Installing starter strip.This band is set using self-adhesive tiles Konkovo-Cornice.Paste such, along eaves.

Installation of bitumen shingles is performed eaves indented by bending strips precipitous place for ten to twenty millimeters.Fix tile roofing nails around the perforation.

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Fixing tiles.Nails need to nail so that the cap such as flush with tiles instead of crashing into the surface of the bituminous coating.

Installation ordinary bitumen shingles.Begin laying such tiles on a level with the initial strip.Each tile need to nail four nails just above the tile slot.