Capping A Wood Shingle Roof

How to install a shingle roof cap.

Capping a wood shingle roof.

Line the entire roof peak with a good adhesive membrane that the roof caps will adhere to. Install your shingles to the top edge of your lean to roof. Utility ladder that will extend at least four foot above the eaves. If your shingles are standard three tab shingles the caps are made by cutting one shingle into three separate parts.

You will need this equipment. Cover the length of the cedar shingle roof peak that the new layers of shingles have made. Installing a shingle roof cap is the most common way each roofing job is finished. The cap must be positioned to minimize wind and weather damage after it has been nailed down.

A chicken ladder with all necessary equipment including hand rope hammer and tool pouch enough 30 pound felt or 8 inch metal flashing to cover the peak after removal. The shingles at the peak of your roof are commonly called cap shingles. Butt the edge of the first cap shingle along this line. For more tips about how to lay shingles from our general contractor reviewer including how to use an alternating pattern keep reading.

Ideally the top edge of the last shingle row is flush with the top edge. Here s how to shingle the last row of a lean to roof. If there is only a little space left then you re fine and don t have to lay another row yet. Cover all of the nail heads with roofing cement.

This nailing area is right where you see the dabs of black asphalt cement that are just above the tab knockouts. How to cap an asphalt shingled roof preparing the peak. Put in one 2 inch long nail back 6 inches from the edge of the cap shingle. It must be completed at the very end.

Make sure all shingles on each side are covered. This is the last and most crucial step in every roofing job. Positioning of the cap. Nailing the cap.

Capping a roof is the last thing done during a roofing project.