How To Lead A Hip Roof

Continue rolling out the felt until you reach the roof hip on the other end.

How to lead a hip roof.

Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun. Make sure that you start with the first ridge cap lying on the bottom of the ridge of your hip roof. Continue up the hip in this manner flashing over the top of each pair of hip slates. Each length of lead ridge should overlap the next section by 150mm.

Now use a single cap at every spot as you go up the ridge. Attach 4 6 centering rafters and lift the ridge beam into place. This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more. A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles.

Move the roll of felt which you ve now severed from the strip on the roof up and out of your way. A faster easier method to frame a hip roof. Install the slates in pairs not one side at a time. You need to trim those shingles so that they fit correctly.

Lead ridges should be dressed around a raised timber ridge pole and laid in sections. Cut the felt in a straight line so that the bottom edge of the felt extends 8 inches past the roof hip. The first step in the process of erecting the hip roof is to get the ridge beam into place at the top of the roof. Working on the base of the edges of your hip roof by making use of 2 stacked shingles.