Shingling a shed and want some tips.
Redoing a shed roof.
Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by.
This baby blue backyard shed had seen better days.
Lay the entire first row one at a time nailing each down with one inch roofing nails.
More expensive because of the additional labor and materials peeling off the old roof down to the sheathing is your only option if you already have two layers.
Add another 200 to remove the old roof and you have a total cost of 630 to replace a shed roof.
Handy home shows you universal shingling techniques that can be applied to any shed.
Cover the ridge of the shed s roof with these cut shingles.
Watch and see how easy it is.
Center each shingle on the ridge of the roof and nail them into place by hammering roofing nails into the edges of the tabs.
Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges.
A leaky roof or loose windows may cause rot and holes as well as damaged doors and walls.
Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.
Begin shingling at the bottom edge of the roof starting at one end.
Reinstall the removed shingles or use new shingles to cover the area of the old roof which was exposed.
The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of.
Staple on roofing paper and shingle the new shed roof starting at the bottom and working up.
Place one nail at each corner a little way in from the edges and then one if not two in the middle.
Be sure to use weather stripping on doors and windows and properly seal the roof to prevent these problems in the future.
If your roof is in good shape but has some damage to one side from a downed tree or has lost shingles in a wind storm an overlay is worth considering.
Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof.
Stripping away the old roof.
The beat up paint job and the fact that the outbuilding seemed to just float in.
Cost to replace a shed roof the average garden shed is 10 by 12 which is 120 square feet and the cost for installation alone would be 430 or 3 60 per square foot.