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Installing GAF Timberline Shingles

how's it going everybody welcome back to part six of how to build a shed SL Playhouse today we're going to be installing some shingles we're going to be using specifically GAF Timberline architectural roofing shingles that are going to match the house so looking at some of the starting materials we're going to be using you can see here in my hands right now this is called a starter strip basically the black line that's on the very top is what's going to be connecting to the bottom portion of your shingles and it's going to connect to it so that they don't lift up um you can see the design on the actual shingles themselves it's a beautiful design that they have um it does look very nice once it's up there I'm also going to give you a quick uh run around on top of my the roof of my house to show you what it looks like on a larger structure as well later on in the video so again this is what we're going to be using these are the GF Timber line roofing shingles that we're going to be putting up on the shed so if this is your first time seeing shingles the black strips that are on the bottom they're very shiny portions those are what's going to be activated by the sun once the sun beams on those shiny black strips it becomes an adhesive a very very good glue if you would say um that will activate by the sun and it becomes rock hard to a point where you can't even lift these now these are our four tab shingles you can use this as well if you want to roof your your house you want to shingle the house with this type of material that's perfectly fine as well the only reason I actually have the four tab shingles is because I'm going to be using this for the ridge cap the ridge cap is the top point of your actual structure so where the two pieces of plywood on the very top meat to make that point this is what this material right here is what's going to go over that to make the design look complete so measuring the shingles that we're going to be using they come out the width is right around 13 and a/4 in that measurement is going to take a play play a role in the actual first strip the first starter strip that we're going to be using on the bottom ledge of our of our roof so keep that measurement in mind um measure whatever shingles you are using but we have 13 and 1/4 in on this one getting your starter strip started you got to measure the width of the actual starter strip so the width of this starter strip is 6 and 5/8 you want to have at least a quar inch overhang I mean you can go whatever overhang you want on shingles I wouldn't go obviously a foot you know but you know a/ qu inch half an inch somewhere around there you'll be perfectly be fine so I want to go/ qu in overhang so I'm going to adjust my measurement from 6 and 5/8 to 6 and 38 so what I'm going to do is I'm going to measure from the bottom portion of the actual drip edge to 6 and 38 I'm going to Mark a line I'm going to do the same thing for the opposite side and I'm going to snap a chalk line so that I have a perfect line perfectly even line from the bottom of the drip edge to 6 and 38 on one side and the bottom of the drip edge to 6 and 38 on the other side so once you have your measurement on both sides um where the 6 and 38 meet go ahead and just because of the fact that you're working on your own and you want a tight tight chalk line um go ahead and put a little nail in the roofing paper portion and that's going to be used as your extra hand so when you're putting your actual chalk line the head of it it could attach to that nail right at 6 and 38 then you could walk yourself over to the opposite side and snap your line with the ease of having that nail in there as as if somebody's actually holding it for you and just a quick example of what I'm explaining with the nail do not nail this fully into the material but enough so that when you actually attach the chalk line it does not pull from the material when you're pulling the chalk line and you can see the head of the actual chalk line itself the metal portion fits right over the nail and once you pull it to the other side it should stay in as long as you put it in good enough and moving over to the opposite side once you have that chalk line the head of it in go ahead and move it over to your 6 and 38 measurement on the opposite side and snap a line and I hope I don't get anybody dizzy when moving this camera in this manner but uh that way you guys can see exactly what it's going to look like with the chalk line down the line um here you go so 6 and 3 H from the bottom of the drip edge all the way up is now on this chalk line from one side all the way to the other and you're going to see right here the starter strip is going to go flushed with that chalk line as well as a quarter inch overhang on the drip edge and make sure you do that for the left side as well so this starter strip right here make sure you put the tar portion on the bottom some people put it up on top but you want it on the bottom that way the the shingles on top of it don't lift from the wind on the very very corner there's no point in putting them on the top make sure they go on the towards the bottom portion so go ahead and start cutting out your starter strips um they just cut right in half you can use a razor blade for this or you can bend it a couple ways back and forth and they'll just come apart in themselves so um either way however you do it I just want to give you a show you an idea of what it looks like to cut these with a razor blade um or utility knife whatever you want to call it um just make sure that you have a good amount of blades or a solid blade that's going to last you the entire project so again you're going to be running through about two to three blades depending on the size of roof you're doing but this roof right here is going to cost me about three blades so I want to First apologize for the actual tripod of this camera being in these shots you know this is the best I can do with the uh especially with the pitch of this roof um you're going to see this camera tripod probably throughout the video so to give you an idea of how to nail these in you are going to want to go ahead and line your shingle up to where it's going to begin once you have that lined up you're going to nail in One Nail on the corner portion right above that tar line and the reason it's going right above that tar line is because the adhesive portion is what's going to connect to the actual shingles itself so you want to start on one side move your way to to the opposite side do not work your way left to right work your way corner to corner and then in the middle and that way you know that your shingle is not going to move on you because once you nail in just two Nails into the shingle and you mess up on it you're going to have to take it off to do it again so do it right the first time and just nail it in from one corner nail in the other corner and then work your way in the middle so your starter strip is the most important portion of the roofing when it comes to the shingles um the reason being is once you you have this leveled off and everything's straight the remainder of the shingles are just going to fall into place after that um just get this one leveled off and all the remainders should be leveled off and once you have your first one down hopefully as long as the edges of your the remainder of your um starter strips are not damaged in any way they should fit snug against the uh right portion the left portion of the actual starter strips so go ahead and work your way down the line you can see that once you butt them up together nail them off make sure they're have that right on that chalk line that's where you're going off of and go ahead and start nailing them off um again just work your way down the line and that should be your starter strip and then we'll go on the edges right now in a bit and don't forget your corner to corner and then work your way in the middle don't work left to right so if you're wondering what size nails to use for this for the roofing nails it all depends on what you're going to do on the inside of this roof uh on the ceiling portion once you're done if you're going to cover it up it doesn't matter to the length of the actual nails if you're not going to cover up the ceiling then you want to make sure that you have no Nails exposed so you're going to have to go with a shorter nail even though they're a little harder working with with your fingers you're still going to have to go with a shorter nail that way you don't have all these nails sticking out on the ceiling portion when you're looking up now they do have nail guns for this type of project as well you know for roofing nails um but the small project I'm doing here here I'm just going to use a hammer and nails um it's very enjoyable actually doing it with a hammer and nail for this project knowing that this is the actual ending of your structure rather than the door that we have to put in also but this is actually what's making the actual structure look great from above I want to make sure I'm doing this all by hand now once you get to the edge where you're going to have to make a cut very simple you can do it two ways one way you get your your speed square here and and make a line with a pencil and right where you're going to have to make the cut so make sure you have that/ quarter inch overhang on the right side of the shed as well over the drip edge and make your line with a pencil Mark do it that way or you can do it with just a razor blade without having to make a marking with the actual pencil so whichever way you decide it's only your preference so I'm also doing some starter strips on the edges where it's going up to the peak of the actual roof so pay attention to this portion you can see the black tar line now everything is leveled on the bottom starter strip itself however if you notice the black tar line it is uneven from the one before it do not measure these off of your black tar lines they are not all the same measure from your chalk line or whatever measurements you made but do not measure from those black tar lines do not think that those black tar lines are going to meet together and you're going to have an even starter strip so again perfect example I'm glad that actually showed up on the video so getting on started on the shingling process it doesn't matter whether or not you are starting on the left side of the roof or you're starting on the right side of the roof I prefer starting on the left I work my way left to right on everything so I prefer left to right so each shingle each strip that you're going to be putting up above the the previous one is going to be an offset of 6 in 5 and 1/2 to 6 in so if you imagine this way you're going to be cutting 6 in off each one that you are going up and that's going to be that's going to start your starter strip for the beginning process of actual shingling portion so as you're moving up you're going to be making your Cuts full sheet 6 in off 12 in off 18 in off all the way up until you can no longer Take 6 in off now as very important to remember this part you have white lines already made on these shingles if you can see these white lines here the bottom portion of the next shingle is going to be lined up directly on those white lines that black portion that's on top of those white lines is where you're going to be nailing the actual roofing nails into it so here is our every 6 in off from the bottom to the top and all you're going to do is cut those to make everything flush on the left side this is exactly what you want when you're placing the first portion of your shingles up every six 5 and 1/2 to 6 in off is what you want and from there it's just going to be full sheets left to right left to right left to right until you get to the end obviously to where you're going to have to make your Cuts but you want to make sure that you start it this way that way everything is offset and everything flows over each other evenly remember the white lines the bottom portion of those shingles need to be on top or against or flushed pretty much preferably flushed with those white lines so once you have this portion Up on the Roof your starting portion you can start moving with full sheets you want to remember that the white lines again the bottom portion of the shingle that goes on top of each one is going to be flushed with that white line it's almost it is a chalk line basically but it's already pre-made into your shingle so again left to right full sheets until you get to a point to where you actually have to make a cut on the far end and don't forget to nail against the actual black portion the non shiny portion that's on top of the shingle above the white line that's where you're going to be nailing your nails in um on the back side of the shingles you're going to see a again shiny black tarish type of material what that is used for is when again the Sun is going to activate that into an adhesive once the Sun hits this it's going to be rock hard and you're not going to be able to lift this up so again be careful with this when you're working on the roof it gets very sticky and before getting started on the actual project itself once you actually go up to the roof make sure you have a sufficient amount of Razor with you I'm just going to go ahead and grab a pack right now from my other shed and I'm going to keep them close by whether they're not in my tool pouch or just close by so I know that I'm not going to be going back and forth for them it really doesn't matter to what type of Razor you're going to be using what kind of Blade as long as it works for you all right now we brought our shingles up that we cut we brought them up to the roof and we're going to go ahead and get started with this so your first piece that you're going to be placing on should be a full sheet should be a full piece of of a jingle so get it lined up we already have the/ qu in overhang on the starter strip underneath this once you have that first piece lined up and everything's flushed go ahead and start nailing this in remember you're nailing to that black portion that's on top of the white line doesn't matter if you're starting on the left side or the right side as long as you start on the edges edge to edge and then work your way in the middle once you're satisfied with the way that the first one went on that everything's flushed make sure that it's flushed on the bottom with the starter strip make sure it's flushed on the left side with a starter strip um once everything is is flushed and you're happy and satisfied with the way it looks go ahead and move your way up with the next next uh shingle that you cut the 6 in off of so you're going to make what looks as as a a staircase so that's what it's going to look like but that's what you want when you're starting this so don't forget to nail into the black lines as well as making sure that the bottom shingle portion of the next one going up is flushed with that white line and just move your way up from this point so this is exactly what you want for each shingle going above overlapping the one on the below it this is exactly what you want it to look like you want it to be lined up with that line you want it to be flushed on the left side and everything's going to look like a perfect design once it's done and again I know I'm repeating myself a lot but make sure you do the edges first and then work your way in the middle very important to do that so you don't mess up and have to rip this off and even damage the one below it and as you can see here I'm just working my way up from the bottom to the top for all the pieces that I cut it's just working your way up making sure that everything's leveled off with the line making sure that everything's flushed on the left side working your way up until that last piece that you cut and once you have all those pieces up go ahead and go back to the bottom portion and you're going to start with your full sheets um just make sure that everything is flushed try to get it as buted up against the uh first one as possible or the one to the left of it and make sure that it's just even with the bottom portion of that first starter strip you did you put up there so that's what's going to make it even whether or not this shingle has a little curve to the left side of it or right side of it don't don't focus on the left or right side of it some of them aren't cut the exact I mean perfectly even or perfectly leveled or perfectly straight what you want to do is make sure that you are buted up with the bottom portion of that starter strip that's what's going to make it straight all right so the process that we're going to be working here it doesn't matter if you're going Lane by Lane row by row um whatever whatever process you feel is more comfortable for you just work that angle so what I'm going to do here is I'm standing in one spot so I have my shingle right in front of me I don't have to keep moving my ladder if I was working on a scaffold it might be a little bit different but I don't want to keep moving my my ladder right now to each shingle left to right then have to move it again left to right you know you're in this one area throw your other piece of shingle on top of that as long as underneath that is hitting all shingle and no Roofing paper you're good to put the next one above it and by not hitting Roofing paper I'm referring to the left and right sides not the top portion cuz the top portion obviously you're hitting Roofing paper make sure you're using good common sense you know don't be reaching too too far far from your ladders point or a scaffold once you reach a certain limit get up onto the roof and it begin to rain on me the wind was picking up pretty bad and when you're on a roof and the wind is pushing it sucks but uh anyways my wife told me that I needed to come inside because she was afraid I was going to fall off the roof so I went back up the ladder and continued my work so this is the process so far we still have a little bit to go um just use caution when dealing with rain okay so this is where I'm at so far I have placed all the shingles from on all the rows where we made the initial Cuts with a six in off now we are up to one full piece on the very top portion right before it meets The Ridge line so I know that I'm going to have one solid sheet sheet going from left to right and then I'm going to have to offset one more from 6 in with a cut and that will be above the full sheet which should meet the ridge line I'm hoping that you can see this on the video you can see the bottom portion of each sheet of shingles how they meet with the white line and if you look up you'll see all the white lines flushed with the bottom portion of each shingle going up so moving our way up to the second to the last row if you would um right before the ridge line on this side of the shed of the roof um you can see that this is going to be one full sheet now since we are now restarting basically the process for the 6-in cuts so this is going to be one full sheet and right above that one as you can see it still needs more room for the ridg line to meet the ridg line you're going to have to make that 6in cut as you can see right here this portion that I'm showing you with my finger here has to be cut and the ridg line is going to be exposed just a little bit so you want to get it as close as possible to that Ridge line um but don't don't give too much of a gap but enough that you know you're not going to have a bow with the uh shingles if you put them on overlapping so once you have that portion cut out go go ahead and place that on and you're going to move your way the same exact way as you were initially just move down the line you know row by row or overlapping each other however you feel it necessary to do so again this is not a hard process and you can see now I'm restarting one full sheet on the bottom and The 6in Cut Above That which meets The Ridge line so this is a beautiful design beautiful color and I'm matching the roof of my house you know unfortunately the only people that will really see this roof are going to be the ones flying over it and we have completed one side of this roof as you can see everything is leveled and even um there's no sloping of any of these shingles everything was lined up and it was all due to that first starter strip that we placed in the in the very beginning and then ran off every shingle above that to all the white pre-made lines in each shingle if you do it that way you're going to have a straight flushed and even looking roof that is your goal and that's what you want now to get started on the opposite side same exact process this is your first pattern that you're going to want to place on initially all right so once you have your first portion cut out ready to go just walk them up to the roof and get started on the second half of your roof uh the opposite side my recommendation is to invest in a pair of knee pads the grains of these shingles do dig into your skin and you don't want to work uncomfortably you want to be as comfortable as possible when doing this so please invest in some sort of knee pads and as you can see here I already have my starter strips placed I have my first row going and I'm ready to start shingling the wrist and as you can see here it's the same exact as we started on the first side we have our pattern laid out all our 6in cuts the offsets are made they're placed on and we're ready to go so as you can see I went ahead and placed all my shingles above except for where it's going to meet the ridge line again so I didn't feel it necessary to have to show you how to do all this again just follow the same steps as before but now getting to this ridg line you want to make sure that the piece that you're placing on right now you can see this overlap you don't want it overlapping that way you want to make sure you cut it the same exact way as you did on the first side so make your cut make it as close to the ridge line as possible and go ahead and nail this portion in so this is what your roof should look like at this point um we are ready to put the ridge caps on I just wanted to give a quick overview of what this looks like on both sides um you can see that everything is straight and leveled off and even everything had to do with those starter strips that's why it's very important those starter strips need to be placed perfectly for you to have this look all right and moving over to the ridge capap material you can see we have our four tab shingles here that we're going to be using it's the same exact color as the roof make sure you get the same color or whatever design you want if you want to put a different color on there it's your roof it's your choice all you have to do is there's a little seam between these joints and just move it left and right and pull it and they'll snap right off now when placing this material above on top for the ridge cap you're going to want to make sure that you're going to make some angle cuts on each one the reason being is if you look at this when they bend over you're going to have the bottom one exposed unless you make those angle Cuts you do not want to have this bottom portion Exposed on each and every ridge cap that is going to look ugly so you have got to make the angle cuts on these Ridge caps so if you're going with the same color as a roof just make sure that you are using the color the correct side of the actual ridge cap so in order to get these Ridge caps straight and leveled you're going to want to place one ridge cap at one corner and then Place Another rid cap at the opposite side on the other corner and we're going to make a chalk line once you make your chalk line from corner to corner of your Ridge caps that line is going to be followed by each and every ridge cap you're placing above I'm hoping from the actual view you can see the chalk line on the corner portion of that end ridge cap the chalk line is running directly to the other ridge cap at the front end and all you need to do is make a chalk line on one side you do not need to do it for both sides one chalk line is sufficient enough for you to be a follow that line with each and every ridge cap all the way down the line until you get to the last one once you're at this point once you have your chalk line laid out go ahead and put it away all that you'll need for the remainder of this project are the ridge caps some nails and your your Hammer that is it so go ahead and bring all your Rich caps up to the roof and it's time to get started on this portion as talked about before this is what the angle Cuts you want to have look like on each and every Rich cap that you're taking up there once you have a good amount cutout go ahead and take it up to the roof just make sure you're carrying only what you can actually carry um getting started on the ridc cap portions you can see I have many cut out here so what I like to do is color to color I'm going to butt up the bottom of each ridge cap to the F to the color of the previous ridge cap the black tar portion is the adhesive that will activate once the Sun hits it when nailing this I want to nail the most meat I possibly can get off these rid caps all you all you need is two one on each side however there is nothing wrong with putting more so as you can see here I have one nail on each side of this ridge cap right at that line um just go ahead and continue down the line make sure that well what I like to do is color to color make sure that the actual ridge cap is overlapping those nails and make sure that you're running that side where you made the chalk line against the ridge cap that's what's going to make it straight that's what's going to make it look even and it's going to look like a great roofing project once you're complete as long as long as you're doing everything leveled off chalk line is a must so as you can see I have all my Ridge caps laid out they're already nailed in and I am moving up to the second to the last ridge cap you can see that there's an overhang over the side of the roof you want to make sure you make your adjustments make the cut so that's flushed up against the edge of that roof once you have that cut and flushed with the edge that roof go ahead and nail that one in at this point in the project you should be pretty excited because all you have is one more piece of shingle to lay down and the whole entire structure is done the whole entire roofing project is done um when getting to your last shingle the last shingle is going to be cut to where it's flushed up against the edge of your roof of the shingles that you you laid down so the last ridge c there is absolutely nothing that you can do when exposing those nails so it's very important to be using galvanized nails for this entire project I don't even know if they sell roofing nails that are not galvanized they may but I don't know if they do but regardless you're down to your last piece here this last piece needs to be trimmed flushed with that edging the the shingle Edge that hangs off the roof once you have that piece cut out go ahead and nail that in you're going to have nails exposed but that's just part of it so as you can see here here is your last ridge cap and the nails are exposed there's only two Nails on this ridge cap and even though the black tar on the bottom is going to be that adhesive once the sun activates it I still like to put four Nails on the last ridge cap to give it that extra hold to make sure that it's not going to go anywhere once that wind blows if it catches it from the backside there's nothing holding it on the bottom of that so I want to make sure that I have four Nails on my last rid cap and this roofing project is complete this is what the top portion looks like this is what the sidings look like Rich caps on and everything's flushed everything's even everything is leveled off and it all had to do with the starter strips as well as the chalk line for the rich cat so this is what it looks like I really hope that this helped you um if you have never seen or done any sort of shingling before and especially with these architectural shingles they're beautiful you know and this is what it should look like in the end so give the sun some time to activate all that black tar on the bottom once it does activate the adhesive is going to be rock hard and it's going to be nearly impossible for that wind to lift it just a quick review underneath the bottom portion of the shingles you can see the overhang that we have you don't want to have this flushed up against the edge where the uh the faad is at basically of your shed of your structure you want to make sure that there's that overhang so that it helps the rain fall away from the structure so on a larger structure which is my house you could see the type of shingles which is the same as we installed on the shed walking around this everything is the same it's the same exact process you would start the same starter strips with these uh with the shingles on the roof of your house um the same exact pattern with the 6-in cuts everything is the same if you were doing a larger structure the only difference with homes is sometimes you run into what's called a valley which is where two pieces of plywood meet and there's like a dow drop almost like an angle that's called a valley so that's a little different obviously with the with the shingling but it's still an easy process um that's going to require still a chalk line and some Cuts in a different manner but uh anyways everything is the same on this roof as as this house when it comes to the ridge caps and the shingles and the patterns that you're going to start with now there are different types of material you can use for roofing any structure um obviously if you want the nice look you're going to go with the actual shingles if you want something done that's going to last years to come as well you're going to go with a different material such as like this felt type of material here so this is my other shed that we built years ago and instead of shingling we just lay this felt down so there's different types of material you can use um this just rolls right on um you're going to have to use that adhesive on the bottom of it like we did with the Henry's adhesive as well um but it's also a simple project so this roof was installed in the summer of 2015 the sun activated everything is as you can see here you can't even lift these shingles um here in Tucson Arizona the sun beams on every everything so this probably was activated within a day or two at my guess all right and that completes our roofing project with shingling with the GF Timberline shingles um thank you guys big thank you for sticking by if you watch the entire video um hopefully this gives you some sort of insight on how to shingle if you've never done this before at least what the the timberl shingles look like so please subscribe for more to come thanks again