High Nailing Roof Shingles

There is a fairly narrow strip on every shingle where it s acceptable to place the nail.

High nailing roof shingles.

For all owens corning shingles roofing nails should penetrate into the wood deck by a minimum of inch or completely through the roof deck by a minimum of 1 8 inch. When nails are located too high on the shingle they never catch the. The more common and problematic nailing problem is to have nails located too high on the shingle. Keep your nails on either side of the gap and away from the middle of each individual shingle so that the gap in the shingle above doesn t expose the nail head.

The jacklegs around here use that as a selling point that they put 8 nails in a shingle. While using pneumatic nail guns do not set the pressure too high because the nail will. Ceberus i am suprised by the 8 nails to a shingle. Try not to break the shingle surface with the nail head and repair any incorrectly placed nails immediately.

For high wind areas or on slopes of 21 12 60 or more use six nails per shingle placed as shown. Those extra 4 nails to a shingle from the next shingle do nothing to hold the shingle on the roof. After the first shingle in the course is installed continue with full length shingles to complete the first course trimming the last shingle so that it matches the overhang of the starter course below. Actual results may vary.

For the cambridge shingle nails must be applied into the nailing zone. If the shingle is blowing off past the first 4 nails those next line of nails are not going to do a. The difference between a good shingle and a great shingle is having surenail technology only available from owens corning on duration series shingles. 3 results based on study conducted by home innovation research labs an independent research lab comparing installation of timberline hd shingles to timberline hdz shingles on a 16 square roof deck using standard 4 nail nailing pattern under controlled laboratory conditions.

Patented surenail technology features a wide highly visible engineered fabric strip in the nailing area for a consistent quality installation and the unique product design provides. There is a fairly narrow strip on every shingle where it s acceptable to place the nail. Red dots mark the nail holes for a 6 nail high wind nailing pattern on traditional 3 tab shingles note that the nails are just below the tar line. If the nail fails to penetrate the deck properly then remove the nail and repair the hole in the shingle with bituminous mastic and use another nail.

The more common and problematic nailing problem is to have nails located too high on the shingle. When nailing shingles proper penetration into the roof deck is essential to ensure the nail and shingle remain secure. It is very problematic to have nails located too high on the shingle. The correct nail must be applied 2 5 cm above the cut out and 2 5 cm from each edge.