Normal architectural shingles are approximately 3 bundles per square.
How many bundles of roof shingles make a square.
Each bundle is 33 square feet.
However shingles are packaged in a way that they are light enough for the average person to carry around.
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In this method shingle course offsets are 6 and 11.
Although roofing projects are estimated and sold by the square roofing material is often not sold in 1 square increments.
How many bundles of shingles will you need the average bundle of shingles covers 33 3 ft 2 so three bundles of shingles are needed per square.
Once you have a three bundle pack to cover a square you will have 29 x 12 inches by 36 inch standard sized shingles per bundle.
A roof square is equal to 100 square feet so each bundle covers roughly 33 1 3 square feet.
As a rule of thumb there are 3 bundles to a square assuming that you are using three tab strip shingles.
Therefore a 40 square roof would require approximately 120 bundles of shingles.
Four bundles to a square.
A square is 100sq feet if your using some of the heavier roofing most one bundle of shingle covers about 33 square feet of roof hence around 850 bundles of shingles will be needed for 28000 square feetroof.
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But be careful not all shingle brands are packaged three bundles to a square.
If your roof is 1200 square feet that means you have 36 bundles of shingles.
The hardest part is how you determine the number of bundles it requires you to order to cover all your roof areas.
Asphalt shingles are typically packaged with this in mind but if a package of shingles covered an entire 100 square foot square it would be too heavy to handle.
A square of shingles is the number of shingles needed to cover 100 sq feet of roof area.
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It typically takes three bundles of standard three tab asphalt shingles to cover one square on a roof.
This would be 87.
So most popular shingles are sold such that three bundles are needed to cover one square of roof area.