How To Finish A Roof

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How to finish a roof.

Shed roofs come in all shapes and sizes but we are looking specifically at two types. Lay strips of felt horizontally across the roof. If you re finishing your attic insulating it to the proper r value can cause a dramatic loss of headroom if you limit yourself to fiberglass batts. Ensure that each higher strip slightly overlaps the strip below it.

Install the roofing felt. Lay a strip of felt at the bottom of the roof and move towards the top of the roof with each new strip. To meet all three goals insulating your finished attic ventilating the roof and maximizing headroom use a combination of dense batt insulation rigid foam sheeting and air chutes. An ecological approach to finishing a flat roof is to add a living roof.

When shingling a shed roof with three tab shingles the standard asphalt covered tar backed shingles used on most residential roofs you will come to a point at which the top row must be finished with another type of shingle i e ridge cap shingles. Use a staple gun or hammer tacker to staple the felt to the roof. On dec 07 2009. Single slope and lean to.

A shed roof is one that has a single sloping side. Later on we ll investigate the finer points of applying shingles to the top row of a lean to type shed.