How To Fit Roofing Felt Shingles

The tools you will need are a hammer and a sharp knife for trimming.

How to fit roofing felt shingles.

3 shingles make up each 1 metre. Step by step guide on how to apply bituminous roofing shingles to your shed roof. Our felt roofing shingles are easy to fit and can be used on log cabins roofs with a slope of 12 degrees or more. You will find some small diagrams on the packs themselves but using our knowledge of working with roof shingles we have gone into a bit more depth to try and help you.

If you still have questions about how to fit roof shingles or would like to know which roofing shingles are the best solution for your project please get in touch. Underlay roofing felt underlay must be used on roof slopes below 20 1 in 5 gradient indeed it s good practice to always use a roofing underlay below shingles roofing felt underlay should be laid on the roof with 15cm end laps and fixed by nailing with 10mm large headed galvanised clout nails at 10cm centres. Includes useful advice on the best materials to use together with informat. Here are the instructions for fitting the 2 most popular designs of felt roof shingles.

The shingles are fixed to the roof boards or insulation boards if you have chosen the roof insulation option with clout nails.