Putting New Shingle On Hip Roof

The roofers used hip and ridge shingles which came bundled like typical shingles but they break into three pieces.

Putting new shingle on hip roof.

The starting shingles for each row will typically be halved at the ridge of the hip roof as you ascend. If the broken piece is lost cut a new piece to fit the existing shingle. If the plumbing vent is close to the peak of the roof lap the shingles over the peak of the roof. Working on the base of the edges of your hip roof by making use of 2 stacked shingles.

Make sure that you start with the first ridge cap lying on the bottom of the ridge of your hip roof. All the shingles are cut along the hip rafter with a utility knife or in this case the ridgid roofing cutter. Trim the shingles away from the ridge vent hole. Each shingle overlapped the previous one and they were secured with two nails on either side.

Adhere the shingles adjacent to the flange with roofing tar. If more than about 35 of your roof is going to need repair due to wind or hail especially if it s already 12 years old the cost effective decision might be to replace it all. The goal is to provide a reasonably flat surface for the new shingles to lie over with no gaps greater than 1 2 inch. Adhere the joint where the cut edges of the shingles meet the dome with roofing tar.

Use sticky back ice and water shield as underlayment where ice dams or leaf and twig dams are likely to build up and at. You will also want to place them on top and do your best to center them on a seam between two on the previous row. The first couple of hip shingles were cut to match the corner. Finally i had time to put the video clips together.

We are a brunswick county nc. Repair is costlier on a per square foot basis because it is more time consuming to integrate new shingles into a roof here and there than to install them over the entire roof. If a shingle is torn or cracked glue the broken piece back in place using roofing cement. You will need to cut more shingles to size and pay special attention to how the shingles lay on the roof as you round corners.

Now use a single cap at every spot as you go up the ridge. Four years after installing my new shingles they re still nice. Please click show more below to know. You need to trim those shingles so that they fit correctly.

Ideally the amount of the shingle showing on the main part of the roof matches the hip roof.