How to Shingle a Roof: A Comprehensive Guide

When it comes to roofing, one of the most essential tasks is shingling. In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to shingle a roof, covering various aspects of the process.

First, let's start with preparing for the job. Before you begin, make sure you have all the necessary materials, including shingles, underlayment, nails, and a hammer. It's also essential to choose the right type of roofing material for your specific needs. In this video, we're using asphalt shingles, but other types like metal or clay tiles may require different techniques.

To start, take your first shingle and place it along the edge of the roof, ensuring it's aligned with the other shingles that have already been installed. Cut the shingle to size using a utility knife or a saw, making sure not to cut too close to the edges. Next, take your longer nails and hammer them into the tar strip, starting from the bottom and working your way up. Make sure to leave a small gap between each nail to allow for expansion.

As you continue along the roof, make sure to cover any gaps or seams with additional shingles. The camera may want to move closer to the roof as you work, so be mindful of your surroundings to avoid losing your balance. Take your time and work carefully, especially near the edges of the roof.

One of the key features of asphalt shingles is their design, which includes a silver-gray color with dark accent areas. To replicate this look, leave a small portion of the dark accent area exposed on each shingle, but be sure to cover any tar strips that you encounter. By following this pattern, you'll create a uniform and visually appealing appearance.

As you work along the roof, take note of the ridge caps, which come up at each corner and then cross over the top. On hip roofs, these ridges are typically more pronounced, while on gable roofs, they may be less noticeable. If you're working with a valley or complex roofline, be sure to check out our additional videos for guidance.

Throughout this process, it's essential to maintain proper ventilation and avoid covering vents or flashing areas with shingles. This can lead to water damage, rotting wood, and other costly issues down the line.

Once you've completed shingling your roof, inspect your work carefully to ensure all gaps are sealed and there are no damaged or missing shingles. If you're unsure about any aspect of the process, consider consulting a professional roofer for guidance.

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Finally, we hope this guide has been helpful in your roofing endeavors. With patience, attention to detail, and the right materials, you can create a beautiful and functional roof that will last for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Shannon from house improvements.com and uh in this video we're going to show you a little bit more about shingling we're going to actually deal with shingling the entire roof at this point uh hopefully you've watched some of our other videos to do with shingling that kind of get you up to the stage we're at and if you haven't just check out our Channel and and look for them we've already done a video showing you how to get started as far as getting the starter strip on and your first few rows under layment which is this product here uh so now we're just going to deal with actually getting started on the actual bulk of the roof so we're using a laminated architectural shingle as you can see here um I'm just going to reiterate a few things that I already maybe mentioned if you did watch the other videos our nailing area is going to be right in the tar strip we're using six nails per shingle and uh We've also got to stagger our rows we want a minimum minimum of 6 in stagger from The Joint below so here's our joint in this row so in the row up above here we don't want to be either way of that unless we're at least 6 in away we've got our underlayment on like I spoke about we've got all our metal flashings on they're there what we don't have is in this case we're going to use a double layer of uh 15 lb felt on the rest of the roof that you can see up there and we aren't going to do that until we kind of get to that area because of the wind today so we've got a good chunk here done with the uh grip guard underlayment and we're going to just work with that for right now so to get things started we're going to use an air nailer now I would highly recommend this if you're going to do your entire roof uh you can hand nail it that's fine but uh it's going to speed things up quite a bit even if you have to rent a nailer and a compressor so do that we're using uh coils and Nails I believe these are one in for this nailer yeah they're about an inch and an eigh I think actually um going to use some safety glasses obviously uh if you're hand nailing you want to use about an inch and a half nails at the shortest just to give you your fingers a little bit of room so you aren't banging your fingers all the time so we've got that uh you're going to need a couple different knives usually there is a shingling now we've just got a utility knife where you add the blades into it and you can bu Buy blades I'll put it down here where you can see better they've got a hook on it so you can hook that hook right in the shingle and cut uh the these don't work as good on the laminated shingles they do work really well on three tab shingles if that's what you're going to do on the laminated shingles I just tend to use a standard uh utility knife blade and turn the shingle upside down and cut on the back side and we will show you that a little bit later in the video as far as how to cut it uh you're going to need a tape measure chalk line couple things like that uh to get yourself started you're still going to need your Hammer as well okay so um I've gone ahead and I pre-cut some starting shingles for us so that we get that stagger that we want to keep our joints from lining up uh so we we've already got the starter strip and the first row of shingles on which I said you can see in our other video this is a full shingle um what I'm doing is I'm doing my stagger of 8 in so I just took the next uh four rows and I just increased how much I cut off by 8 in every time so that I get a nice step pattern one of the other things we have to make sure we do is also add kind of a starter strip along that edge just to give a double double uh layer at the edge and and that there is just going to overhang your metal trim by whatever you decided to do/ qu in or half inch when you did your uh starter strip okay so I'm just going to go and Tack that on right now just before I forget in fact I might just hand nail that we'll get it in position and it just butts down you can see I'm pulling back this layer it butts down to the one underneath I just can't reach that other one without climbing right up there but I'll get it after okay so once you have that on the way you uh line these up as far as for the exposure that you have you can see you've got these lines these cuts on this type of shingle right here so I want to put the bottom edge of my next row right level with that and then also flush out here to the end of the starter strip okay so I just slide that right down right where I want to see it lined up and remember I want to nail right in the tar strip tar tar area okay so I usually get the two ends St nailed in first and then I'll fill in my nails in between okay just like so okay and as the Sun hits these they're going to eventually heat down and stick down right to the row underneath it that's what all the uh strips of tar are for to seal it right up so now my next next one I just want to do the same thing try to get out of your way so you can see so I've got this little guy here here okay so that kind of that gets me four rows started and it's full shingles after that until we get all the way to the other end or you know an obstruction or something like that um I think what I'll do I'll just get a few regular shingles on here just so you can get an idea what I'm doing but I'm all I'm doing is I'm taking the next one butting it tight against here I'll nail my two ends to once I have it lined up tight here and lined up on the bottom nail two ends fill in the middle and I'll just keep doing that usually I'll take you know three or four rows along courses along as I go get to the other end cut them come back basically start over kind of typewriter type uh if any of you are old enough to know what typewriters are uh from one side to the other um really doesn't matter which side of which end of your roof you start from but I always try to start at one end and just keep coming from that end all the time um depending on your shingles a lot of times what cuts off down at that end you'll be able to reuse as a starter down here or modify the length of it to use it down here with this type of shingle there's very little waste uh we do have another video explaining you know how to figure out what you need for products and your quantity your shingles and all that so check that out for your estimate I think that's all I can really tell you right now oh the other thing I'm working off a scaffold typically you're probably going to be working from up on top the roof so you're going to be right up here kind of the first few rows you're going to work be working upside down once you get enough rows done that you can comfortably work standing on the new shingles you want to be very careful especially In the Heat of the day that you're not twisting and grinding your toes and heels and stuff cuz you're just going to take life off your brand new shingles that you're laying so you want to kind of walk around fairly carefully without uh causing any damage and it it does get difficult if it gets quite hot during the day okay but because I've got the scaffold down here and it'll just make it easier for you hopefully to see a little bit what I'm doing I'm going to do the first few rows from down here okay so I just kind of use my fingers to kind of feel what I what I need there I pushed it over tight and you'll kind of get a rhythm as you get going along the first few rows always take a little bit of extra plane around till you kind of get comfortable especially uh if you're not used to being on the roof and you're working turned around like I was showing you upside down so you're just trying to space those Nails out bring these ones in about an inch from the ends and space the other ones out fairly evenly I think I can reach one more uh it doesn't hurt to uh go on uh line and check out the manufacturer instructions in case there's any particular things to do with your roof slope uh the region that you live any extra little things that you might have to do uh for your area a little bit differently than I am you may not need the double paper you might only need one layer of paper that sort of thing we've got a double row of of the uh grip guard ice guard uh just because of the low slope of our roof and the conditions that we climate conditions that we have here okay so I'm just going to do add an extra one or two on the end of each one of these now at that point because we started out with a real small one my next row up here would be a full full shingle again and I'm not sure if you can see this nail not sure if you can zoom in enough there to tell that's on a little bit of an angle try to get your nails going in as flat and true as you can they'll they'll just have better holding power okay so I'm just going to throw a few on here one thing one thing that will help you obviously is some help if you can get some buddies to come over and give you a hand it'll speed things up immensely uh so if you've got the people it's kind of nice if you can have one guy just nailing one person bringing the shingles and kind of getting them roughly in place and even another person cutting it'll just speed things up so much quicker it uh it's amazing how much of a difference that'll make so I think I've explained as much as I can as far as you know getting yourself started on this end I'm going to work myself along the roof till we get to the other end and then I can show you uh you know how to cut the ends off and finish up we've got a we've got a a plumbing vent coming through the roof here it'll be up about four or so rows so when we get to that we can deal with that as well Okay so we've got over here to where we're at a plumbing stack vent coming through the roof and and uh we've got to install a piece of flashing over top of it so this after we get going is just simply going to fit down over that pipe and down to the get sealed to the roof we need to come through here though before that goes on we got to come through here one more row it looks like but as you can see as you can see I'm going to have to cut this upper area just to get around that it doesn't have to be real exact so I'm just going to get myself a couple marks find my right knife I'm just going to use a knife and buted buted over to the end of the row where I left off and I just got to get a couple Marks here on the width up here I don't have to make a real tight fit here because that rubber is going to go over all of it and I need to know how far down the shingle I'm going to come so I'm just going to measure from my Edge cuz I know the bottom of my next Row's got to line up here so I know I've got to come up about 9 in and it might be easier for you to see if I just work right here okay so I've got to come up 9 in here's my two little cuts that I just made up there and I've got to come down to about that so what I'll do just going to cut there like so it's much easier to cut on the back side but because I've got it marked out on the front we'll just cut here I just want to take and get rid of that piece so we'll just try that should be fine so again I'm budding over that way where we left off you can see we're clearing that it's not rolling up against it or going to cause any trouble once the heat expands these shingles a little bit so I can nail this okay so I've got that nailed uh I'm going to do one more full one here just so doesn't cause any issues okay so now we're at the point that this this boot here can go on or this flashing can go on you want to get to the point you know when this sits on there this is going to stick out and you want it to make sure it's it's covering the glue the tar strip and coming down onto the face part of the shingle a little bit and then the next row will you know will just basically come up to it so so we're low enough here if we went one Higher uh what's going to what would happen then just for an example when this is on there it's going to sit about like that and these are going to lap on just like that so some of this will be exposed on the bottom that's what we want if we had gone one more row of shingles through there that would mean this would be way up here again that's still accept acceptable cuz it's still covering about half of this face of this boot but there's no no need to leave that much of it exposed so in this case and every one's going to be a little different right CU it just depends how you you know how your course is naturally come up to it but in this case I'm going to put the boot on right here where it is okay so we also need to use some uh roof cement so just kind of set that on there give yourself an idea of how far this comes we don't want the the roof cement underneath there so close to the edge that when you stick it down it's going to ooze out all over the place we want it to be back in there a couple inches so that it just seals up nice but yet doesn't make a mess leave it all exposed so we can come down we're just going to Simply Tar this is a tube I'm reusing so hopefully it'll opens up here for me okay so I got a fresh tube of uh the roofing cement we'll put a nice generous bead down the side here okay so we got that all there set this somewhere so if it oozes out a bit it isn't going to make a mess on you okay so now this boot can go on it should be a nice tight snug fit around here you can get the appropriate size to fit the vent vent you're dealing with come on okay and you can just double check that your tar is going to be far enough back should be good push that down into that tar there like that just get it straight with the run of the shingles you can either measure it or eyeball it so it looks straight when you're down on the ground you may not even be able to tell but from down there then you're going to you're you are going to have a couple of exposed Nails here so we're going to nail here got a few Nails here this is why you want to always have a few hand nails too cuz you're going to have stuff like this to deal with one in that corner one in the center they actually have small dimples in this one kind of indicating where they think that that you should nail so not all manufacturers will have that on there but you can see we've got a nice tight fit around here you want this rubber lip curling up there so if water rain or snow or whatever comes down here it just naturally makes its way up and off of there okay so we've got this all nailed nicely down there I've got some Ooze here I'm going to hide underneath there we'll get rid of this I guess I still need that okay so we've got that we've got the uh the flashing down there now we've got to kind of continue on with our shingling but we're going to have to do some cutting again so we'll see what we've got to cut here with this one but it over there where we need to be now what we want to do and many of these flashings will have a bit of a rib along there and I like to use that as a bit of a guide I don't know if you can really see it it's pretty faint on here we're going to come on there I don't know what that is 2 and 1/2 Ines or so yeah it's actually 2 and 1/2 in so we've got to cut this up and and around there and in fact the way ours works out we can just make a straight cut right off of there so I'll just do the same trick with my knife um make sure we're tight down there just line myself up with that there and I'm just going to put a give myself a little bit of a line there so that I can come down here and cut that off I'm going to grab a square oh I guess it's behind the cameraman as the camera bounces all over on the scaff thank you okay so here's my little Notch right there I've got the shingle turned upside down I've just got a normal everyday Ola blade in there the shingles are fairly warm from being in the sun and after just a couple passes here that should cut off quite nicely okay I find these laminated shingles cut about the best using that method as opposed to the hook blade the hook blade works good on single layer shingles but these have a double layer in them and uh it doesn't cut worth a hoot through there unless it's real hot out so so we'll just double check that that's going to work out so our shingle when it's all said and done is going to sit something like that and that's what we want we're going to put a bead of tar under here and nail that on okay and in fact I can I can nail this end like so get our little bit of tar and we'll put it back here I like to put it right over the nails if I can again don't want to come out too far to the edge and then I come off come off the end there a little bit to keep any water that might drive up underneath that shingle from being able to get past it okay so we're just like that get our flushness there that we wanted one there okay so now the big thing to do is because we cut some of that shingle off in order to keep our stagger going kind of the same way we were we actually need to know if that shingle was full length where it would have ended up being so a lot of times I'll just lay that there as kind of as a gauge this darn tart is going to get me stuck in it sooner or later I need another shingle so we're still continuing along the course that we just put that shingle in but this piece that we cut off like I said I use as a gauge so I basically keep my stagger all the same it's not quite as important on these shingles because as long as you're staggered you're fine on a three tab you would definitely have to do this so that you keep your your uh lines all lining up so with that gauge I can kind of see where I need to be here again on there cut that off now you could if you wanted to when we cut that one could have just notched it up and around basically there'd be nothing left up at the top pop anyways so I just cut that one and this one right off oops I need this back cuz my gauge there oh shoot I threw that piece down the piece I cut off of there would have been in between here too I guess I know that I did a there we should be good there I should have kept my piece like cut off cuz I kind of needed to know have that there that's all right okay so we got that I can nail this other end just to keep it from moving on us I'm going to Tar this end and our next row which we actually haven't brought along here uh would go right over this with a little bit of a notch in it too uh okay I'm going to have to bring one more row so we can finish this off okay so uh I should have really left these little bits on up here to let the shingle lay nice so I just cut a piece couple pieces of scrap in there uh we've got our uh shingle cut to go around top of the stack so it's just going to go up and around we're going to put a bead of tar around there so I'm going to get rid of this before I got tar on me okay so we can just bring that in get our height right but it up tight to the other one right there once the Sun hits that and everything sits down nice should be good now I'm not going to do it right now because somebody will definitely walk in it or will drag a hose through it or something when I'm all said and done all the vents on here any exposed Nails I'll go and just put a quarter size dab of uh roof cement on those just to cover them up and seal those up so there's no uh issues down the road and other than that we're pretty good so this this will allow any rain snow whatever will come in and drain away from there if it does build up ice here or whatever and try to back up we've got the tar there try to stop that so we should be good so now we're around uh one of many obstructions in this roof and we can just continue on okay so uh these are just laying here so we've come all the way down the roof here so we've gotten to the point where we we need to cut some of our end pieces we've got our starter strip that goes up the edge here we've got one of them on so this is our guide this is where we need to measure to okay so you can do this two ways you can either pull your tape out and measure it or you can just lay the shingle buted where you need it to be and uh give yourself a little Notch where you want to cut it right um now also if you want to if it's warm enough and everything works out for you you could nail this down and cut this off right on the roof I just find I get a cleaner cut if I take it over and cut it somewhere else you can either have a piece of plywood up here to cut on or go up higher up the roof where you're not cutting the the underl but uh see if I can just do it here turn it a bit so you can see so there's my little Notch you see me cut a little bit already around the vent so it's not like this is really any different I've got the shingle flipped over okay so you can see we're good there on our starter just get it sitting in place where we want it just like so and every every stay every course is going to be the same thing you just need to cut off your piece now this should work out to be likely a full oh well we got really lucky there usually what would happen is you'd cut one you have a full shingle cut the little piece full shingle cut the little piece just so happened this one two3 row ends up being as close as I need it to be to being the exact length so we can throw that that one on seem to every now and again get one stubborn nail that wants to come out funny okay so what I was saying is once you finish off one row nailer just doesn't want to stay sitting today is you're going to have to add in one full shingle before you have a cut generally just line her up try to avoid having pieces that are any shorter than you know be nice to be no shorter than 6 in uh so you definitely don't want to have any slivers if you can avoid it the nice thing with these laminated shingles if it happened to work out that you know I got right out here and on some of my rows I'm you know maybe I got a I don't know inch and a half or 3 in piece what I could do is my my last full one I could cut a little bit more off of it to allow me to put a bigger piece in just whenever you do that take a look below and make sure you aren't getting too close to another joint like here you can't see what I was speaking about before about offsetting the joints is here's one joint the course below it is over here we've got our 8 in and the same thing here right those are our three joints okay so you don't want to get them like this it's a little hard to tell on these shingles because of the design of them looks like there's joints everywhere but there really isn't okay so now you'd cut that piece full shingle cut whatever piece so on I think you get the idea so we've got a fair bit to uh continue on here with uh I think next we're going to roll out a a piece of the first piece of the paper and get that all stapled on hopefully the wind doesn't tear it off on us and then we can continue on up the roof okay so we're rolling out our first uh row of this 15 lb paper felt paper and we've overlapped it down onto the uh U other underlayment here we're coming down 17 in every row of paper we're going to lap by 17 in and that that's because of the width and that will uh end up so that up there we've got a double layer of paper on everything which is what we need in our area for this type of roofing so so we've started the piece down that end tucked underneath that white aluminum flashing I'm not sure if you can see that weit down down there we've got it tucked under here under this trim and stapled I just threw a bundle on there to keep the wind from getting under it and then uh my help is just going to grab kind of grab the roll there and keep rolling back across the roof and just pulling it uh one way or the other try to get as many of these little wrinkles out of it as we can and I'll just come along behind them and uh staple it down I'm just doing rows of Staples about every 4 feet and uh just pull the bottom a little bit and we'll just continue right across the roof just like that uh you'll have to just keep going that way that's all right we've we've got to a point where in order to keep the wrinkles out we must have got going a little bit crooked what we're going to actually do is cut the paper overlap it by 6 in onto itself and just get ourselves rest straightened out so that we don't right now what's happening if we kept going the roll is going to cover our shingles that we already did so uh we're just going to stop right about there and like I said I'm just going to cut that we'll restart ourselves and uh go right to the end Okay so we've skipped ahead here a little bit as you've obviously noticed uh we just ran out of filming time last night so uh um I continued on and got good chunk of the roof done last night we've kind of got this corner up here where I'm sitting to uh finish off and there's a few things we want to show you yet uh where we left off uh just a few seconds ago in the video was uh we were rolling out the paper I talked about lapping at the 17 in in our case to get the double layer so you can see our laps here in the paper uh so that it's double thickness uh we the other side of the roof was already shingled so we just ran the last row of paper uh up as high as it could doubled it up and uh wherever it ended up down here it ended up so you can see these two are kind of close together but doesn't matter um so basically finish the video off here we're just going to finish shingling out most of this corner so that we can get up to an area here and show you install show you how to install a roof vent and then we're going to go back to the far end the roof and show you just you know how to figure out how to finish your last roll and to do your ridge cap Okay so we've got up to a height here where we're at one of the roof vents for ventilation and I'm just going to show you you know Basics about going around it we're actually going to have a more basically in-depth video uh on this too that you can look for if you want a little bit more information and on that video we'll go into actually figuring out how many of these roof bents you need for the size of home you have so but uh this this is just a quick demo I've kind of got the shingles all pre-cut uh we've got an existing hole here that we're going into so uh you know that's what we're using there we're using a a plastic ridge vent and yeah so I need to go I can't really go here cuz I want this to be exposed uh above the one row of shingles so we're going to go one more row of shingles and I've got it cut out for the hole so just need nail this one on okay and then our vent basically is going to sit on there like that but we need to seal around it as well or under it I should say so we want to make sure that our our tar is in underneath oh half an inch to an inch away from the edge so it doesn't just squirt out all over and make a mess so get yourself some marks so that your vent is sitting where you want it and you have a bit of an idea where the tar needs to go just run a nice generous bead around there line our uh vent all up it's where we want it to be I like to hand nail these just uh so I don't over nail it too tight like I said uh we'll go into more V more detail on the other video need one more shingle over here Jingles are getting nice and warm now okay so that's the basics uh going around the roof van okay so down on this far end of the roof we're up high enough to show you kind of the last row and the ridge cap um so to start off with we need one more row of shingles here this is the side we're working on and the reason I know that is this is your ridge cap and I'll show you how to cut it here in a minute it basically sits on here like this so obviously we don't want this row of tar showing and we need a little more overlap than what we've got there so we need to come up with one more row so it gets lined up just the same as same as all the other ones flush to the end and flush to these notches on the bottom nailed just the same one more for good measure and uh if you're using a vented Ridge which we aren't here but if you were then you you will have to leave your shingles back I think it's 2 in each way of the peak and as well you're going to have the board or the plywood cut out as well but uh just depending on your ridge ridge vent uh that'll determine some of that so if you're using that type of vent then you'll have to adjust accordingly but in our case we aren't okay so you can see by putting that last row up here my ridge cap will Now cover this tar strip as well as that this one on the other side okay so uh we know that we've come up far enough there in my case there's no problem with just flipping this this little flap over the top I'm going to do one more here okay like that like that okay so you just continue that all the way Along on your roof now if I was completely done this roof on the whole length of it what I would do is I would uh determine a line on either side of the roof and snap a chalk line from one end to the other just to keep my Ridge nice and straight um your your rows of shingles likely will be fairly straight but uh they might be out a little bit so just if you want to do that to stay nice and true you can do that or you can just follow this line here whichever you want to do I I can't really snap a line now because we're not finished now at that end um I'm just going to do a few here just to show you what to do now cutting these Ridge caps oops I got to find the right knife there's a special blade we talked about it early on I believe in the video it's got these these hook hook blades in it for roofing okay your lumber store your big box store is going to have those and uh these particular ones fit in any uh utility type knife so for the ridge cap you're going to use three tab shingles there are special shingles you can buy again that are for Ridge caps they might be a little more decorative they might have these Corners taken off or whatever but basic old three tabs going to still do the same trick for you so what you're going to do is you're going to take your three tab shingle and obviously it gets his name because it has three tabs right so it's got these two uh openings in it and as well on the very Corners there's half of that opening there as well to give you a bit of a guideline but you're going to take your hook knife watch your legs and arms and fingers and everything you're going to hook it in there and you're going to pull it back at a bit of an angle so you're you know you're cutting back maybe about 2 inches towards the top this is the side of the shingle that's going to be seen okay so you're going to get three Ridge caps out of every three tab shingle and each one usually covers about uh I think they cover about 6 in or so of distance each tab so so typically one shingle is going to get you a foot and a half of coverage on your on your ridge cap and you can see they don't have to be perfect the idea is just to get rid of that back there so now the problem if you don't angle them back like that what happens is when you fold it around the edge you're going to see this this corner out here so we're just cutting it back so that you can uh not see that and it doesn't look look bad okay so I can get rid of this you're going to need to use longer nails because we're going through you know you could be going through two or three layers of shingles once you get up here you know this row might be folded over and then this one again so you want to make sure you got long enough Nails I'm using 2 and 1/2 in Nails um when you're placing your ridge cap also you want to think about which way your winds usually come from so in my case most of my winds usually come from the West Northwest over here so I want to stop start at the opposite end of the roof and the reason is that cuz you're going to put the cap on here like this and if I had them coming from the other end like this it's just easier for the wind to get underneath them now also if you want to you can put a DAV atar on each one typically I don't find that it's really a huge issue once it gets a few days of sun they get it get folded down and stay down but if you want to put a little DB atar uh once I get one on here I'll show you where you'd put it okay so take your first shingle this also so cutting these will also be a lot easier if the shingles are warm so just let the bundle sit out in the sun a little bit and it'll just make them softer and more pliable to cut and work with um now the camera might want to move just a little bit closer to the roof also you're going to be dealing with working right near the edge of the roof so you've obviously got to be careful that you don't uh lose your balance and fall over the roof so for right now for the few I'm doing I'm just going to follow this this line here so just give them a little bit of a you know don't fold it right in half but just give it a little bit of a Bend so that it naturally just sits nice on the roof line it up flush with the other shingles that you did here already take your longer nails and you want to be either in this tar or just behind it hammer it in come over here just let the shingle lay over nice over the roof and I'm coming in you know I don't know I'm about 2 and 1 half three in or whatever from the very very edge line here actually I'm probably a little a little bit far on that one there I wasn't paying close enough attention I was talking too much like usual okay so uh now your next one uh you can see we've got this tar strip here and uh as you noticed on all the other shingles they've kind of got a design where they've got the silver gray and then they've got a dark accent area these kind of have the same thing they've got the dark accent area here so I like to leave a little bit of that showing But be sure that I'm covering up that tar strip so I'll just lay it on there same thing as you go along just make sure you're covering these tar strips on each side of the roof every time so I'll just do a few of those there but I think you get the basic idea I mean if you want to measure each one out whatever I wouldn't usually get too concerned about it if somebody's going to climb up in your roof they're come and complain to you because uh you don't have them evenly spaced completely and they can tell that from the ground then and it doesn't bother you who cares okay so uh you just continue along like I said every one of those three tab shingles will do about a foot and a half of uh of Ridge yeah we're about 18 in right to there so okay and you just continue all the way along if you had a uh if you had a rid or sorry had a uh cottage style roof or or a hip roof uh there's a bit of an example actually if the camera spins around you can kind of see cuz you're coming up on the corners just because we got the opportunity to kind of show it you can see how on a on a hip roof you'd actually have a ridge cap coming up Each corner and then typically you wouldn't have that extra vented roof area on the top but the corners would come up and then there'd be a strip along whatever you've got for the center in fact this neighboring house is maybe a better example sorry yep so you can see his ridge cap comes up each hip and then across the top for the length that he has and done so so that has it for our finishing up our how to shingle a roof video uh we've got a whole bunch of videos dealing with Roofing now and they'll be up right away or they will be here already existing you can find them on our Channel um but this one specifically was just dealing with the roofing we quickly touched on some of the work around some of the vents and flashing but uh we do have some other videos uh that go into a little bit more detail uh in fact one uh covering a valley as well so and some step flashing so just look for all our other uh shingling related videos on our YouTube channel uh if you have any questions about them or maybe we've missed something that you need specifically for uh help on your roof just go to the Forum and post your question and I'll be sure to help you out from there um if you want to watch us as well on uh see what's kind of going on any video releases that sort of thing you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook uh you can check out our patreon campaign and uh just keep in touch with us in all those different ways of uh social media so hopefully this helped you out in your project let us know in fact if it did or didn't and uh have a good time and enjoy your roofing projecthi I'm Shannon from house improvements.com and uh in this video we're going to show you a little bit more about shingling we're going to actually deal with shingling the entire roof at this point uh hopefully you've watched some of our other videos to do with shingling that kind of get you up to the stage we're at and if you haven't just check out our Channel and and look for them we've already done a video showing you how to get started as far as getting the starter strip on and your first few rows under layment which is this product here uh so now we're just going to deal with actually getting started on the actual bulk of the roof so we're using a laminated architectural shingle as you can see here um I'm just going to reiterate a few things that I already maybe mentioned if you did watch the other videos our nailing area is going to be right in the tar strip we're using six nails per shingle and uh We've also got to stagger our rows we want a minimum minimum of 6 in stagger from The Joint below so here's our joint in this row so in the row up above here we don't want to be either way of that unless we're at least 6 in away we've got our underlayment on like I spoke about we've got all our metal flashings on they're there what we don't have is in this case we're going to use a double layer of uh 15 lb felt on the rest of the roof that you can see up there and we aren't going to do that until we kind of get to that area because of the wind today so we've got a good chunk here done with the uh grip guard underlayment and we're going to just work with that for right now so to get things started we're going to use an air nailer now I would highly recommend this if you're going to do your entire roof uh you can hand nail it that's fine but uh it's going to speed things up quite a bit even if you have to rent a nailer and a compressor so do that we're using uh coils and Nails I believe these are one in for this nailer yeah they're about an inch and an eigh I think actually um going to use some safety glasses obviously uh if you're hand nailing you want to use about an inch and a half nails at the shortest just to give you your fingers a little bit of room so you aren't banging your fingers all the time so we've got that uh you're going to need a couple different knives usually there is a shingling now we've just got a utility knife where you add the blades into it and you can bu Buy blades I'll put it down here where you can see better they've got a hook on it so you can hook that hook right in the shingle and cut uh the these don't work as good on the laminated shingles they do work really well on three tab shingles if that's what you're going to do on the laminated shingles I just tend to use a standard uh utility knife blade and turn the shingle upside down and cut on the back side and we will show you that a little bit later in the video as far as how to cut it uh you're going to need a tape measure chalk line couple things like that uh to get yourself started you're still going to need your Hammer as well okay so um I've gone ahead and I pre-cut some starting shingles for us so that we get that stagger that we want to keep our joints from lining up uh so we we've already got the starter strip and the first row of shingles on which I said you can see in our other video this is a full shingle um what I'm doing is I'm doing my stagger of 8 in so I just took the next uh four rows and I just increased how much I cut off by 8 in every time so that I get a nice step pattern one of the other things we have to make sure we do is also add kind of a starter strip along that edge just to give a double double uh layer at the edge and and that there is just going to overhang your metal trim by whatever you decided to do/ qu in or half inch when you did your uh starter strip okay so I'm just going to go and Tack that on right now just before I forget in fact I might just hand nail that we'll get it in position and it just butts down you can see I'm pulling back this layer it butts down to the one underneath I just can't reach that other one without climbing right up there but I'll get it after okay so once you have that on the way you uh line these up as far as for the exposure that you have you can see you've got these lines these cuts on this type of shingle right here so I want to put the bottom edge of my next row right level with that and then also flush out here to the end of the starter strip okay so I just slide that right down right where I want to see it lined up and remember I want to nail right in the tar strip tar tar area okay so I usually get the two ends St nailed in first and then I'll fill in my nails in between okay just like so okay and as the Sun hits these they're going to eventually heat down and stick down right to the row underneath it that's what all the uh strips of tar are for to seal it right up so now my next next one I just want to do the same thing try to get out of your way so you can see so I've got this little guy here here okay so that kind of that gets me four rows started and it's full shingles after that until we get all the way to the other end or you know an obstruction or something like that um I think what I'll do I'll just get a few regular shingles on here just so you can get an idea what I'm doing but I'm all I'm doing is I'm taking the next one butting it tight against here I'll nail my two ends to once I have it lined up tight here and lined up on the bottom nail two ends fill in the middle and I'll just keep doing that usually I'll take you know three or four rows along courses along as I go get to the other end cut them come back basically start over kind of typewriter type uh if any of you are old enough to know what typewriters are uh from one side to the other um really doesn't matter which side of which end of your roof you start from but I always try to start at one end and just keep coming from that end all the time um depending on your shingles a lot of times what cuts off down at that end you'll be able to reuse as a starter down here or modify the length of it to use it down here with this type of shingle there's very little waste uh we do have another video explaining you know how to figure out what you need for products and your quantity your shingles and all that so check that out for your estimate I think that's all I can really tell you right now oh the other thing I'm working off a scaffold typically you're probably going to be working from up on top the roof so you're going to be right up here kind of the first few rows you're going to work be working upside down once you get enough rows done that you can comfortably work standing on the new shingles you want to be very careful especially In the Heat of the day that you're not twisting and grinding your toes and heels and stuff cuz you're just going to take life off your brand new shingles that you're laying so you want to kind of walk around fairly carefully without uh causing any damage and it it does get difficult if it gets quite hot during the day okay but because I've got the scaffold down here and it'll just make it easier for you hopefully to see a little bit what I'm doing I'm going to do the first few rows from down here okay so I just kind of use my fingers to kind of feel what I what I need there I pushed it over tight and you'll kind of get a rhythm as you get going along the first few rows always take a little bit of extra plane around till you kind of get comfortable especially uh if you're not used to being on the roof and you're working turned around like I was showing you upside down so you're just trying to space those Nails out bring these ones in about an inch from the ends and space the other ones out fairly evenly I think I can reach one more uh it doesn't hurt to uh go on uh line and check out the manufacturer instructions in case there's any particular things to do with your roof slope uh the region that you live any extra little things that you might have to do uh for your area a little bit differently than I am you may not need the double paper you might only need one layer of paper that sort of thing we've got a double row of of the uh grip guard ice guard uh just because of the low slope of our roof and the conditions that we climate conditions that we have here okay so I'm just going to do add an extra one or two on the end of each one of these now at that point because we started out with a real small one my next row up here would be a full full shingle again and I'm not sure if you can see this nail not sure if you can zoom in enough there to tell that's on a little bit of an angle try to get your nails going in as flat and true as you can they'll they'll just have better holding power okay so I'm just going to throw a few on here one thing one thing that will help you obviously is some help if you can get some buddies to come over and give you a hand it'll speed things up immensely uh so if you've got the people it's kind of nice if you can have one guy just nailing one person bringing the shingles and kind of getting them roughly in place and even another person cutting it'll just speed things up so much quicker it uh it's amazing how much of a difference that'll make so I think I've explained as much as I can as far as you know getting yourself started on this end I'm going to work myself along the roof till we get to the other end and then I can show you uh you know how to cut the ends off and finish up we've got a we've got a a plumbing vent coming through the roof here it'll be up about four or so rows so when we get to that we can deal with that as well Okay so we've got over here to where we're at a plumbing stack vent coming through the roof and and uh we've got to install a piece of flashing over top of it so this after we get going is just simply going to fit down over that pipe and down to the get sealed to the roof we need to come through here though before that goes on we got to come through here one more row it looks like but as you can see as you can see I'm going to have to cut this upper area just to get around that it doesn't have to be real exact so I'm just going to get myself a couple marks find my right knife I'm just going to use a knife and buted buted over to the end of the row where I left off and I just got to get a couple Marks here on the width up here I don't have to make a real tight fit here because that rubber is going to go over all of it and I need to know how far down the shingle I'm going to come so I'm just going to measure from my Edge cuz I know the bottom of my next Row's got to line up here so I know I've got to come up about 9 in and it might be easier for you to see if I just work right here okay so I've got to come up 9 in here's my two little cuts that I just made up there and I've got to come down to about that so what I'll do just going to cut there like so it's much easier to cut on the back side but because I've got it marked out on the front we'll just cut here I just want to take and get rid of that piece so we'll just try that should be fine so again I'm budding over that way where we left off you can see we're clearing that it's not rolling up against it or going to cause any trouble once the heat expands these shingles a little bit so I can nail this okay so I've got that nailed uh I'm going to do one more full one here just so doesn't cause any issues okay so now we're at the point that this this boot here can go on or this flashing can go on you want to get to the point you know when this sits on there this is going to stick out and you want it to make sure it's it's covering the glue the tar strip and coming down onto the face part of the shingle a little bit and then the next row will you know will just basically come up to it so so we're low enough here if we went one Higher uh what's going to what would happen then just for an example when this is on there it's going to sit about like that and these are going to lap on just like that so some of this will be exposed on the bottom that's what we want if we had gone one more row of shingles through there that would mean this would be way up here again that's still accept acceptable cuz it's still covering about half of this face of this boot but there's no no need to leave that much of it exposed so in this case and every one's going to be a little different right CU it just depends how you you know how your course is naturally come up to it but in this case I'm going to put the boot on right here where it is okay so we also need to use some uh roof cement so just kind of set that on there give yourself an idea of how far this comes we don't want the the roof cement underneath there so close to the edge that when you stick it down it's going to ooze out all over the place we want it to be back in there a couple inches so that it just seals up nice but yet doesn't make a mess leave it all exposed so we can come down we're just going to Simply Tar this is a tube I'm reusing so hopefully it'll opens up here for me okay so I got a fresh tube of uh the roofing cement we'll put a nice generous bead down the side here okay so we got that all there set this somewhere so if it oozes out a bit it isn't going to make a mess on you okay so now this boot can go on it should be a nice tight snug fit around here you can get the appropriate size to fit the vent vent you're dealing with come on okay and you can just double check that your tar is going to be far enough back should be good push that down into that tar there like that just get it straight with the run of the shingles you can either measure it or eyeball it so it looks straight when you're down on the ground you may not even be able to tell but from down there then you're going to you're you are going to have a couple of exposed Nails here so we're going to nail here got a few Nails here this is why you want to always have a few hand nails too cuz you're going to have stuff like this to deal with one in that corner one in the center they actually have small dimples in this one kind of indicating where they think that that you should nail so not all manufacturers will have that on there but you can see we've got a nice tight fit around here you want this rubber lip curling up there so if water rain or snow or whatever comes down here it just naturally makes its way up and off of there okay so we've got this all nailed nicely down there I've got some Ooze here I'm going to hide underneath there we'll get rid of this I guess I still need that okay so we've got that we've got the uh the flashing down there now we've got to kind of continue on with our shingling but we're going to have to do some cutting again so we'll see what we've got to cut here with this one but it over there where we need to be now what we want to do and many of these flashings will have a bit of a rib along there and I like to use that as a bit of a guide I don't know if you can really see it it's pretty faint on here we're going to come on there I don't know what that is 2 and 1/2 Ines or so yeah it's actually 2 and 1/2 in so we've got to cut this up and and around there and in fact the way ours works out we can just make a straight cut right off of there so I'll just do the same trick with my knife um make sure we're tight down there just line myself up with that there and I'm just going to put a give myself a little bit of a line there so that I can come down here and cut that off I'm going to grab a square oh I guess it's behind the cameraman as the camera bounces all over on the scaff thank you okay so here's my little Notch right there I've got the shingle turned upside down I've just got a normal everyday Ola blade in there the shingles are fairly warm from being in the sun and after just a couple passes here that should cut off quite nicely okay I find these laminated shingles cut about the best using that method as opposed to the hook blade the hook blade works good on single layer shingles but these have a double layer in them and uh it doesn't cut worth a hoot through there unless it's real hot out so so we'll just double check that that's going to work out so our shingle when it's all said and done is going to sit something like that and that's what we want we're going to put a bead of tar under here and nail that on okay and in fact I can I can nail this end like so get our little bit of tar and we'll put it back here I like to put it right over the nails if I can again don't want to come out too far to the edge and then I come off come off the end there a little bit to keep any water that might drive up underneath that shingle from being able to get past it okay so we're just like that get our flushness there that we wanted one there okay so now the big thing to do is because we cut some of that shingle off in order to keep our stagger going kind of the same way we were we actually need to know if that shingle was full length where it would have ended up being so a lot of times I'll just lay that there as kind of as a gauge this darn tart is going to get me stuck in it sooner or later I need another shingle so we're still continuing along the course that we just put that shingle in but this piece that we cut off like I said I use as a gauge so I basically keep my stagger all the same it's not quite as important on these shingles because as long as you're staggered you're fine on a three tab you would definitely have to do this so that you keep your your uh lines all lining up so with that gauge I can kind of see where I need to be here again on there cut that off now you could if you wanted to when we cut that one could have just notched it up and around basically there'd be nothing left up at the top pop anyways so I just cut that one and this one right off oops I need this back cuz my gauge there oh shoot I threw that piece down the piece I cut off of there would have been in between here too I guess I know that I did a there we should be good there I should have kept my piece like cut off cuz I kind of needed to know have that there that's all right okay so we got that I can nail this other end just to keep it from moving on us I'm going to Tar this end and our next row which we actually haven't brought along here uh would go right over this with a little bit of a notch in it too uh okay I'm going to have to bring one more row so we can finish this off okay so uh I should have really left these little bits on up here to let the shingle lay nice so I just cut a piece couple pieces of scrap in there uh we've got our uh shingle cut to go around top of the stack so it's just going to go up and around we're going to put a bead of tar around there so I'm going to get rid of this before I got tar on me okay so we can just bring that in get our height right but it up tight to the other one right there once the Sun hits that and everything sits down nice should be good now I'm not going to do it right now because somebody will definitely walk in it or will drag a hose through it or something when I'm all said and done all the vents on here any exposed Nails I'll go and just put a quarter size dab of uh roof cement on those just to cover them up and seal those up so there's no uh issues down the road and other than that we're pretty good so this this will allow any rain snow whatever will come in and drain away from there if it does build up ice here or whatever and try to back up we've got the tar there try to stop that so we should be good so now we're around uh one of many obstructions in this roof and we can just continue on okay so uh these are just laying here so we've come all the way down the roof here so we've gotten to the point where we we need to cut some of our end pieces we've got our starter strip that goes up the edge here we've got one of them on so this is our guide this is where we need to measure to okay so you can do this two ways you can either pull your tape out and measure it or you can just lay the shingle buted where you need it to be and uh give yourself a little Notch where you want to cut it right um now also if you want to if it's warm enough and everything works out for you you could nail this down and cut this off right on the roof I just find I get a cleaner cut if I take it over and cut it somewhere else you can either have a piece of plywood up here to cut on or go up higher up the roof where you're not cutting the the underl but uh see if I can just do it here turn it a bit so you can see so there's my little Notch you see me cut a little bit already around the vent so it's not like this is really any different I've got the shingle flipped over okay so you can see we're good there on our starter just get it sitting in place where we want it just like so and every every stay every course is going to be the same thing you just need to cut off your piece now this should work out to be likely a full oh well we got really lucky there usually what would happen is you'd cut one you have a full shingle cut the little piece full shingle cut the little piece just so happened this one two3 row ends up being as close as I need it to be to being the exact length so we can throw that that one on seem to every now and again get one stubborn nail that wants to come out funny okay so what I was saying is once you finish off one row nailer just doesn't want to stay sitting today is you're going to have to add in one full shingle before you have a cut generally just line her up try to avoid having pieces that are any shorter than you know be nice to be no shorter than 6 in uh so you definitely don't want to have any slivers if you can avoid it the nice thing with these laminated shingles if it happened to work out that you know I got right out here and on some of my rows I'm you know maybe I got a I don't know inch and a half or 3 in piece what I could do is my my last full one I could cut a little bit more off of it to allow me to put a bigger piece in just whenever you do that take a look below and make sure you aren't getting too close to another joint like here you can't see what I was speaking about before about offsetting the joints is here's one joint the course below it is over here we've got our 8 in and the same thing here right those are our three joints okay so you don't want to get them like this it's a little hard to tell on these shingles because of the design of them looks like there's joints everywhere but there really isn't okay so now you'd cut that piece full shingle cut whatever piece so on I think you get the idea so we've got a fair bit to uh continue on here with uh I think next we're going to roll out a a piece of the first piece of the paper and get that all stapled on hopefully the wind doesn't tear it off on us and then we can continue on up the roof okay so we're rolling out our first uh row of this 15 lb paper felt paper and we've overlapped it down onto the uh U other underlayment here we're coming down 17 in every row of paper we're going to lap by 17 in and that that's because of the width and that will uh end up so that up there we've got a double layer of paper on everything which is what we need in our area for this type of roofing so so we've started the piece down that end tucked underneath that white aluminum flashing I'm not sure if you can see that weit down down there we've got it tucked under here under this trim and stapled I just threw a bundle on there to keep the wind from getting under it and then uh my help is just going to grab kind of grab the roll there and keep rolling back across the roof and just pulling it uh one way or the other try to get as many of these little wrinkles out of it as we can and I'll just come along behind them and uh staple it down I'm just doing rows of Staples about every 4 feet and uh just pull the bottom a little bit and we'll just continue right across the roof just like that uh you'll have to just keep going that way that's all right we've we've got to a point where in order to keep the wrinkles out we must have got going a little bit crooked what we're going to actually do is cut the paper overlap it by 6 in onto itself and just get ourselves rest straightened out so that we don't right now what's happening if we kept going the roll is going to cover our shingles that we already did so uh we're just going to stop right about there and like I said I'm just going to cut that we'll restart ourselves and uh go right to the end Okay so we've skipped ahead here a little bit as you've obviously noticed uh we just ran out of filming time last night so uh um I continued on and got good chunk of the roof done last night we've kind of got this corner up here where I'm sitting to uh finish off and there's a few things we want to show you yet uh where we left off uh just a few seconds ago in the video was uh we were rolling out the paper I talked about lapping at the 17 in in our case to get the double layer so you can see our laps here in the paper uh so that it's double thickness uh we the other side of the roof was already shingled so we just ran the last row of paper uh up as high as it could doubled it up and uh wherever it ended up down here it ended up so you can see these two are kind of close together but doesn't matter um so basically finish the video off here we're just going to finish shingling out most of this corner so that we can get up to an area here and show you install show you how to install a roof vent and then we're going to go back to the far end the roof and show you just you know how to figure out how to finish your last roll and to do your ridge cap Okay so we've got up to a height here where we're at one of the roof vents for ventilation and I'm just going to show you you know Basics about going around it we're actually going to have a more basically in-depth video uh on this too that you can look for if you want a little bit more information and on that video we'll go into actually figuring out how many of these roof bents you need for the size of home you have so but uh this this is just a quick demo I've kind of got the shingles all pre-cut uh we've got an existing hole here that we're going into so uh you know that's what we're using there we're using a a plastic ridge vent and yeah so I need to go I can't really go here cuz I want this to be exposed uh above the one row of shingles so we're going to go one more row of shingles and I've got it cut out for the hole so just need nail this one on okay and then our vent basically is going to sit on there like that but we need to seal around it as well or under it I should say so we want to make sure that our our tar is in underneath oh half an inch to an inch away from the edge so it doesn't just squirt out all over and make a mess so get yourself some marks so that your vent is sitting where you want it and you have a bit of an idea where the tar needs to go just run a nice generous bead around there line our uh vent all up it's where we want it to be I like to hand nail these just uh so I don't over nail it too tight like I said uh we'll go into more V more detail on the other video need one more shingle over here Jingles are getting nice and warm now okay so that's the basics uh going around the roof van okay so down on this far end of the roof we're up high enough to show you kind of the last row and the ridge cap um so to start off with we need one more row of shingles here this is the side we're working on and the reason I know that is this is your ridge cap and I'll show you how to cut it here in a minute it basically sits on here like this so obviously we don't want this row of tar showing and we need a little more overlap than what we've got there so we need to come up with one more row so it gets lined up just the same as same as all the other ones flush to the end and flush to these notches on the bottom nailed just the same one more for good measure and uh if you're using a vented Ridge which we aren't here but if you were then you you will have to leave your shingles back I think it's 2 in each way of the peak and as well you're going to have the board or the plywood cut out as well but uh just depending on your ridge ridge vent uh that'll determine some of that so if you're using that type of vent then you'll have to adjust accordingly but in our case we aren't okay so you can see by putting that last row up here my ridge cap will Now cover this tar strip as well as that this one on the other side okay so uh we know that we've come up far enough there in my case there's no problem with just flipping this this little flap over the top I'm going to do one more here okay like that like that okay so you just continue that all the way Along on your roof now if I was completely done this roof on the whole length of it what I would do is I would uh determine a line on either side of the roof and snap a chalk line from one end to the other just to keep my Ridge nice and straight um your your rows of shingles likely will be fairly straight but uh they might be out a little bit so just if you want to do that to stay nice and true you can do that or you can just follow this line here whichever you want to do I I can't really snap a line now because we're not finished now at that end um I'm just going to do a few here just to show you what to do now cutting these Ridge caps oops I got to find the right knife there's a special blade we talked about it early on I believe in the video it's got these these hook hook blades in it for roofing okay your lumber store your big box store is going to have those and uh these particular ones fit in any uh utility type knife so for the ridge cap you're going to use three tab shingles there are special shingles you can buy again that are for Ridge caps they might be a little more decorative they might have these Corners taken off or whatever but basic old three tabs going to still do the same trick for you so what you're going to do is you're going to take your three tab shingle and obviously it gets his name because it has three tabs right so it's got these two uh openings in it and as well on the very Corners there's half of that opening there as well to give you a bit of a guideline but you're going to take your hook knife watch your legs and arms and fingers and everything you're going to hook it in there and you're going to pull it back at a bit of an angle so you're you know you're cutting back maybe about 2 inches towards the top this is the side of the shingle that's going to be seen okay so you're going to get three Ridge caps out of every three tab shingle and each one usually covers about uh I think they cover about 6 in or so of distance each tab so so typically one shingle is going to get you a foot and a half of coverage on your on your ridge cap and you can see they don't have to be perfect the idea is just to get rid of that back there so now the problem if you don't angle them back like that what happens is when you fold it around the edge you're going to see this this corner out here so we're just cutting it back so that you can uh not see that and it doesn't look look bad okay so I can get rid of this you're going to need to use longer nails because we're going through you know you could be going through two or three layers of shingles once you get up here you know this row might be folded over and then this one again so you want to make sure you got long enough Nails I'm using 2 and 1/2 in Nails um when you're placing your ridge cap also you want to think about which way your winds usually come from so in my case most of my winds usually come from the West Northwest over here so I want to stop start at the opposite end of the roof and the reason is that cuz you're going to put the cap on here like this and if I had them coming from the other end like this it's just easier for the wind to get underneath them now also if you want to you can put a DAV atar on each one typically I don't find that it's really a huge issue once it gets a few days of sun they get it get folded down and stay down but if you want to put a little DB atar uh once I get one on here I'll show you where you'd put it okay so take your first shingle this also so cutting these will also be a lot easier if the shingles are warm so just let the bundle sit out in the sun a little bit and it'll just make them softer and more pliable to cut and work with um now the camera might want to move just a little bit closer to the roof also you're going to be dealing with working right near the edge of the roof so you've obviously got to be careful that you don't uh lose your balance and fall over the roof so for right now for the few I'm doing I'm just going to follow this this line here so just give them a little bit of a you know don't fold it right in half but just give it a little bit of a Bend so that it naturally just sits nice on the roof line it up flush with the other shingles that you did here already take your longer nails and you want to be either in this tar or just behind it hammer it in come over here just let the shingle lay over nice over the roof and I'm coming in you know I don't know I'm about 2 and 1 half three in or whatever from the very very edge line here actually I'm probably a little a little bit far on that one there I wasn't paying close enough attention I was talking too much like usual okay so uh now your next one uh you can see we've got this tar strip here and uh as you noticed on all the other shingles they've kind of got a design where they've got the silver gray and then they've got a dark accent area these kind of have the same thing they've got the dark accent area here so I like to leave a little bit of that showing But be sure that I'm covering up that tar strip so I'll just lay it on there same thing as you go along just make sure you're covering these tar strips on each side of the roof every time so I'll just do a few of those there but I think you get the basic idea I mean if you want to measure each one out whatever I wouldn't usually get too concerned about it if somebody's going to climb up in your roof they're come and complain to you because uh you don't have them evenly spaced completely and they can tell that from the ground then and it doesn't bother you who cares okay so uh you just continue along like I said every one of those three tab shingles will do about a foot and a half of uh of Ridge yeah we're about 18 in right to there so okay and you just continue all the way along if you had a uh if you had a rid or sorry had a uh cottage style roof or or a hip roof uh there's a bit of an example actually if the camera spins around you can kind of see cuz you're coming up on the corners just because we got the opportunity to kind of show it you can see how on a on a hip roof you'd actually have a ridge cap coming up Each corner and then typically you wouldn't have that extra vented roof area on the top but the corners would come up and then there'd be a strip along whatever you've got for the center in fact this neighboring house is maybe a better example sorry yep so you can see his ridge cap comes up each hip and then across the top for the length that he has and done so so that has it for our finishing up our how to shingle a roof video uh we've got a whole bunch of videos dealing with Roofing now and they'll be up right away or they will be here already existing you can find them on our Channel um but this one specifically was just dealing with the roofing we quickly touched on some of the work around some of the vents and flashing but uh we do have some other videos uh that go into a little bit more detail uh in fact one uh covering a valley as well so and some step flashing so just look for all our other uh shingling related videos on our YouTube channel uh if you have any questions about them or maybe we've missed something that you need specifically for uh help on your roof just go to the Forum and post your question and I'll be sure to help you out from there um if you want to watch us as well on uh see what's kind of going on any video releases that sort of thing you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook uh you 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