Working with a helper expect to spend half a day installing flashings and roll roofing for a 700 square foot roof with modest complications.
How to install 90 lb roll roofing.
Coverage cedar blend fiberglass mineral surfaced cap roll roofing.
Since this is the least difficult of roofing materials to install only basic carpentry skills are needed.
Low slope means that these products are installed on roof slopes of 2 12 or more.
A typical roof has three layers a felt layer and two layers of overlapping shingles.
Roll roofing is simplest product to install on a small section of low slope roof is 90 pound roll roofing.
Roll roofing is different.
One msr roofing roll is usually about 36 feet long by 36 inches wide.
It has just one layer so it goes.
A fiber reinforced asphalt coated sheet with a granular ceramic surface to protect against uv weathering and physical damage.
Visit your local hardware store and ask for enough rolled roofing to fit the area of your roof.
An underlayment of felt roofing is optional.
Prepare the roof by tearing off the old shingles or by preparing for a reroof.
Rolled roofing or roll roofing also known as msr comes in rolls of 100 square feet.
Owens corning deckseal sa sbs cap 39 375 ft w x 32 833 ft l 100 sq ft shasta white roll roofing.
The roofing should overhang the eaves by inch except where you install drip edge flashing on top of the roofing along the rake edge.
You will need 1 10 gallon of lap not mastic cement for every roll and 2 pounds of roofing nails for every square.
So in terms of quantity a roofing roll is about the size of one composite shingle square.
How to install roll roofing on low slope roofs.
Rolled roofing is easy to obtain and can be found at all home improvement stores.
This is an inexpensive roofing material often installed over 15 felt underlayment by homeowners and do it yourself ers.