Steps To Putting On A Metal Roof

Metal roofing is also available in the form of shingles.

Steps to putting on a metal roof.

Covering your existing asphalt shingles with metal roofing might be worth the expense. Use your neoprene washer head screws to secure the metal to the sheathing. Here are some pros and cons. Now slide a washer onto a 1 inch wood screw and use your screwdriver to secure it to the plywood of the roof.

Need a new roof. First focus on removing the oldest shingles that are sticking out as well as any flashing or vents. 1 remove the shingles before installing the metal roof the first way to install a metal roof over shingles is by completely removing the old shingles before installing the new metal roof. Then remove the rest of the roof including all the shingles.

Use 1 4 inch metal wood screws to attach the metal sheets to the wood slat board base. Even asphalt gets damaged from repeated traffic something that isn t necessarily true of metal. Generally speaking it is as safe to walk on a metal roof 30 or 50 years after installation as the day it was installed. This is not a complete install only basic install on a bungalow i.

Start in a bottom corner left or right of the roof then roll it out until it gets to the other end. Put the underlayment membrane down to form the base. In this video i m installing some metal roofing over an existing ash fault shingled roof. Remove any nails sticking out and reposition any metal gutters so that water flows properly off the roof.

Take care the first piece is aligned precisely perpendicular square to the edge. Place a sheet from top to bottom on a section of the roof. Work up from the initial row starting at the lower corner in a diagonal pattern staggering the shingles to prevent gaps. In fact metal roofs can stand up to you walking on them better than ceramic tiles and some other roofing systems.

Install metal roofing sheets. A benefit to doing it this way is that you can see if there is any rotten plywood that needs to be replaced before installing the new roof. As a rule of thumb you want it to be tight enough to hold it in place but not so tight that you ve dimpled the metal. Most codes now allow no more than two layers of roofing before.

Space the screws about 12 in 30 cm apart down the entire piece of metal. Lay the starter row of metal shingles at the drip edge and affix to the roof with metal roofing nails. When you start with the first metal panel position it so that it overhangs the edge by at least 4 inches. Make sure that you hammer in a 1 5 inches 3 8 cm nail every 12 inches 30 cm so it stays down.

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