How To Lay Felt On A Shed Roof

Watch our step by step video showing how to felt a shed roof with expert advice and top tips to help you complete the job with confidence.

How to lay felt on a shed roof.

Start at the bottom of the roofline and work up so any water that gets through the roofing material will shed down the tar paper and will not go under it. Conclusions on how to install roofing felt. As you work the paper can be tacked down in the center so it won t blow away. Laying a felt roof is hard manual work which once started needs to be finished you cannot leave it halfway through to come back to in a couple of weeks.

Therefore never step on a felt roof before it has been secured to the decking with nails. The roofing felt should be applied in layers that overlap. The best time to lay a felt roof using cold applied adhesive is when the weather is warm but this means that working on a flat roof can be exhausting work with the sun s heat and the heat. Otherwise there is a chance that the felt will slip and you will fall off the roof.

The same is true about repairing the roof. Never install the felt vertically across your roof. Hang the lower edge of the felt over the eave the part of the roof that meets or overhangs the shed s walls by about 0 5 to 0 75 inches 1 3 to 1 9 cm.