Getting your shingles redone on your hip roof would not only keep your house in great shape for years to come but also keeps your roof protected from all of the weather elements.
Shingling a pyramid hip roof.
Three bundles of three tabbed shingles equal one square or 100.
Overlap them as before and continue until you reach the top.
Use two stacked shingles cut to form to start the ridge cap at the bottom of the hip ridge and then use one cap in each position up the ridge.
How to lay roofing felt on a hip roof.
The first couple of hip shingles were cut to match the corner.
All the shingles are cut along the hip rafter with a utility knife or in this case the ridgid roofing cutter.
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At the very peak you ll make four cuts through a shingle forming a right angle x but leave solid shingle to cover where the four hips join.
Get some friends to help you shingle the hip roof.
Installing shingles on a hip roof takes more time than having them installed on any other kind of roof.
Start at the bottom of one side of the roof at the right or left edge.
Start from the bottom edge of the ridge and secure each shingle with 1 1 2 inch nails.
Then finish by placing the last caps at the very top of the roof.
Have one person lay shingles in the proper place and another person nail shingles down.
The roofers used hip and ridge shingles which came bundled like typical shingles but they break into three pieces.
Lay the second row of shingles.
Use the shears or utility knife to cut three tab shingles into three separate shingles to use as cap shingles for the hip roof.
Position the first row of roofing felt flush on the bottom with the edge of the gutter apron.
We are a brunswick county nc.
Score and fold the four leaves down the sides and score and bend to wrap and overlay the leaves around the pyramid.
Each shingle overlapped the previous one and they were secured with two nails on either side.
This 1 2 tab has to be cut off where it hangs off the left edge of the gable roof.