How To Lift Shingles Onto Roof

While they may not look it a bundle of shingles is extremely heavy.

How to lift shingles onto roof.

Put on your work gloves. Lift a bundle of shingles using your hips and legs more so than your arms and back and swing the bundle onto. It took about 90 minutes to make. You may be able to sling a bundle over your shoulder and safely climb and extension ladder onto the roof but soon your shoulder will be protesting and chances are you ll be looking for a new method.

You put a nail in the shingle tab. Lean so as to allow the bundle to slide. And you do that in four or five places and then that s going to nail down that piece of roof. Because the bending can stress and deform shingles especially in cold weather the ends of those shingles may warp over time creating a prominent pattern on the roof.

A back saving method of lifting shingles and other materials to the roof. Carry the bundle of shingles carefully up a stabilized ladder. How to put shingle bundles on the roof. And then you nail the shingle down then you bring the tab back over so it s completely closed.

A back saving method of lifting shingles and other materials to the roof.