Shingle A Shed Style Roof

First cut your rafter boards to size using a circular saw to make sure they fit your roof.

Shingle a shed style roof.

Shingling a shed and want some tips. Handy home shows you universal shingling techniques that can be applied to any shed. Shingles refer to asphalt clay slate cedar metal tar and gravel and roll roofing products. This style was once used mainly on sheds but it s becoming more popular on residential homes.

Some other roofing materials which are used for low slope curved or butterfly roof styles are pvc tpo and rubber membrane. To build a shed roof you ll need rafter boards plywood gusset plates plywood sheathing felt roofing paper and shingles. Watch and see how easy it is. When shingling a shed roof with three tab shingles the standard asphalt covered tar backed shingles used on most residential roofs you will come to a point at which the top row must be finished with another type of shingle i e ridge cap shingles.

On other homes only a section of the structure uses a shed roof. How to shingle a shed with 3 tab and architectural shingles. Sometimes the entire roof is a shed style roof. A shed roof is one that has a single sloping side.

Roll out and staple down roofing felt in overlapping rows.