How To Pulley Shingles Onto Roof

Finally the preparation is over you can now install the shingles.

How to pulley shingles onto roof.

All the ladder lifts i saw on youtube were too labor intensive and so i designed my own with stuff i had around the house. Make your own pulley system to get 72 bundles of roofing shingles up to roof top 1 2 story house the supplier i am buying from doesent deliver saving 400 even after i rent a truck to pick them up but my back is not what it used to be. But i m now 71 and not up to manhandling shingles onto the roof. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm.

I either have to find a supplier who ll put them on the roof or rent one of the above. Roofing nails are for securing asphalt shingles in place as opposed to regular nails that aren t always strong enough. Install the roof shingles. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top.

I m ready to shingle another house. You ll also want a knife or scissors handy for adjusting the size of a shingle to fit in certain areas like the corner of a roof. The cap of each shingle should fall evenly in half over each side of the ridge. I placed a temporary pulley up on the roof top.

Start on the lower edge of the roof install the starter shingles by nailing them down using roofing nails. I loaded a stack of shingles on the wood board and then as i pulled the rope pulley the board with. How to get shingles on your roof easily. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof.

It took about 90 minutes to make. Chalk line helps with outlining straight edges to evenly lay down shingles. Essentially this system is one where a conveyer belt on a rigid platform extends directly from a truck up to the roof.