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Posted by DJW on June 10, 2006, 10:58 am
then do you just hit the exsposecd nail on the side that is not done
yet with some roof cement? your suggestion sounds good but do i have to
remove the floded over shingles or am i wrong and felt will be what is
outer most over the ridge point and will that keep for maybe over a
winter? Thanks for the help.
Robert Allison wrote:
> DJW wrote:
> > I am doing a roofing job on my home over the course of a summer or well
> > maybe a year if winter comes early here in Wisconsin. The shingles
> > along the top I call the ridge shingles. I can cut three from a
> > three-tab shingle or buy them ready-made. What would you suggest for
> > that area if I can't get to the roof right away on the other side or
> > the ridge? Also with all the different sections some share that ridge
> > so its like all or nothing needs to be done within days, I know I do
> > not have that much consecutive time and with weather this is going to
> > be a weekend project. Other than tarping that unfinished ridge. My
> > question is if I make or buy pre made ridge shingles might I be ok to
> > nail the undone side down and then pry it up to shingle up under it
> > when I finally get to that side? Or should I buy mineral sheet roofing
> > and cut and use that temporarily as my ridge protection and try to
> > reuse it if it will come up ok on those parts of the roof till the
> > whole job is completed? My thinking is each time I pull the temporary
> > ridge rolled sheet roofing is that I can cut the area that I nailed at
> > the end if it tares or does not come up clean and just shorten it each
> > time I reuse it. I know this rolled roofing would give me a much longer
> > run between nails on the ridge do you think rain or wind might be a
> > factor in that length no seal tabbed lineal run along the roof. I hate
> > to buy or cut ridge shingles as temps only to have to pull them and
> > trash them if they do not come up clean between the total completion of
> > both sides of the roof between the ridge.
> >
>
> When you get to the ridge on whatever side you are working on,
> the last row of shingles should go up and over the ridge.
> This will give you most of the weatherproofing that you need.
> In most cases, the ridge cap (the proper term for the ridge
> shingles as you call them) is more decorative than functional.
> The shingles themselves should do the weatherproofing and
> the cap is just additional insurance.
>
> When we have to do what you are doing, we run the side we are
> working on up and over the ridge. We pull the last top row of
> shingles off the other side and then lay felt over the ridge
> before putting on the last (top row) of shingles on the side
> you are working on. When you fold them over the ridge and
> nail them down, you are effectively waterproofed and you don't
> have to worry about placeing cap and taking it back up.
>
> --
> Robert Allison
> Rimshot, Inc.
> Georgetown, TX
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