How do you shingle?

[Zahboo]

I'm dumb when it comes to this. I know the basics, the felt and the nails, but how do you do the top? I'm redoing a dog house/chicken coop that has a rotted roof. How do you do the thing at the top of the peak?

 

[lunkerchicken]

It all depends on what the top of your roof looks like. My coop has a slanted roof that just ends at the top and I shingled up to that, then added a metal drip edge. After it stops raining I will eventually add one more row of shingles (using roofing tar) to cover the exposed part of the metal drip edge.
On my kids play house, I have a more traditional roof with a peak and the front and back sloping down from there. With this type of roof, I ran the shingles up to the top on both sides and then added on row across the center of the roof (the peak), overlapping both sides. I secured this cap with roofing tar. I hope you can get the visual, if not let me know and I can send you some pics of what I have done.
Hope that helps.

 

[Zahboo]

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Sorry, I'm visual, so if you don't mind...

 

[lunkerchicken]

It's pouring out right now, so tomorrow when the sun finally breaks through (after about a week), I will snap some photos and send them to you - sound good?? I feel like Noah's Ark is going to float by any moment... I need to paint the outside of the coop, it needs to stop raining!!!

 

[Zahboo]

Same here. I have to paint it and shingle it. Then add door, window, it has ventilation already so yay. It is a decent little house, and we already had it

 

[lunkerchicken]

Do you have any pics?

 

[Zahboo]

I will get some tomorrow. I'm at dads right now and coop is at moms. I forgot to get before photos

I do plan to get lots of pictures. I think I'm going to paint the siding white and the trim and accents green.

 

[Zahboo]

Here is a picture to give idea of coop. This is before I shredded the roof. I can't think of exact measurements. I think 3x4 though. It's really nice in my opinion just needs fixing up. I am replacing some of the siding pieces to make it look better.

Edit to add it's the one in the top left corner.

 

[mygor]

Here are 2 links one is illustrated with drawings the other with pictures.

I hope this helps!


http://www.howtoshingle.com/e


http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/roof/maintenance/reshingle/install_1/asphalt_1.htm

 

[lunkerchicken]

The coop looks like it is in good shape - shouldn't need to much work at all. What is the frame in front of the coop?