More Picture Of How To Install Cedar Shingles On Shed Roof HD Image Size. A small garden shed is a good way to try your hand installing cedar shingles. Use pre-formed shingle ridge tiles and nailing twice fix these into place with a minimum overlap that is the same as the shingle gauge on the roof covering.
Overlap every shingle by at least an inch and a half from where the edge of the roof is. Tom Silva shows the apprentices how to properly install wood shinglesThisOldHouse AskTOHSUBSCRIBE to This Old House. Roofing shingles come in strips that are generally about 3-feet long and 8 or 10 inches wide.
At the ridge trim each shingle to create a shortened ridge course and then fix each shingle along the ridge twice.
Products Download PDF Page 01Certi-Label. Install a Starter Course of Shingles Cut the tabs off a shingle. Nail the shingle in place with four nails so the shingle overlaps the drip cap on the end and bottom of the roof by 12 to 34 inch. I fully waterproofed and insulated the roof - for practice before doing the same to my garage roof.