How To Shingle A Porch Roof

Open valleys have metal flashing to protect this critical area of the roof.

How to shingle a porch roof.

Dave gives her some advice to help her with this project. I am replacing a deck with a covered porch. The edge of the roof has thin metal flashing that helps water drip off the roof without damaging the home or causing a leak. While some skylight manufacturers include flashing in their products sometimes roofing professionals have to create it or purchase it separately.

A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles. Frame your porch roof by continually adding rafters until it extends one foot past your porch walls or support columns. Trim the shingles at the ridge and ends of roof. Integrate shingles on new porch roof with existing shingles on home one of our readers is interested in knowing how to integrate shingles on a new porch roof with the existing shingles on their home.

Continue laying your shingles horizontally up the roof. With a porch there are not so many essential structural elements that need to be taken into consideration. If you hit a stack vent or chimney interlace the shingles with the flashing to allow water to run down the roof. Adding shingles to a porch roof is no different than adding shingles to a roof of a home or any other building.

4 inches should go up the house wall and 4 inches should go on top of the porch roof shingles. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva reveals the best ways to secure shingles to a roof. Step 6 make a 10 degree bend on the shingle edge of the flashing approximately 1 2 inch from the edge. A fascia board which is a roofing material that helps compensate when there are inevitable inconsistencies in rafter length will mount on the front and on the sides of your porch roof frame.

This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more. Waviness in the metal can develop after cutting and this bend helps keep the flashing straight while you are. Most flashing is 8 inches wide. See products and services from this episode.

By margaret of lotus ca question. When you reach the peak either bring the ridge edges together with a ridge capping layer or cut regular shingles into 3 tabbed equal pieces and bend them so they fit on the. Cut 12x12 inch ridge cap shingles from standard roof shingles. The only major difference is that a porch is much smaller so the job is a lot easier and quicker to do.