How To Lay Wooden Shingles On A Roof

A step by step guide teaching you how to lay and secure shingles to your dunster house roof.

How to lay wooden shingles on a roof.

In this video we secure the shingles to a hipped roof. Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles. Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across the roof. You can use a 31mm x 1 8mm stainless steel ring shank nail.

Flash a wood shingle roof as you would an asphalt roof including wsu along the eaves rakes and valleys and metal drip edge along the eaves and rakes. To attach shingles over the mesh you ll need longer nails. 6d shingle nails should do but check the product s literature to be sure. However a much quicker method is to use the shinglefix staple with a paslode gun.

Shingles should be twice nailed or stapled. To avoid splitting and 38mm up from the butt of the course above fixings should be positioned 19mm in from the edge of the shingle. Cut six inches off the length of the first starter shingle nailed on then use the rest of them full size.