Roof Edge Shingles

Use a flat pry bar and hammer to pry the nails out of the drip edge gently.

Roof edge shingles.

Get free shipping on qualified drip edge flashing or buy online pick up in store today in the building materials department. In order for the roof edge seal or a band of roof cement to be effective at holding shingles down they must be bonded directly to wide metal drip edge. When re shingling the edge of your roof you ll want to apply the new shingles and then trim them back to avoid waste or poor guessing. Once free slide the drip edge out and discard.

I usually use drip edge with a minimum 5 in wide roof leg. In a w pattern along each length. Place nails in the three tab shingles about 3 4 inch 1 8 centimeters above the cutouts near where the tab meets the upper part of the shingle. Gently lift up the shingles on the edge of the roof and locate the nails holding the existing drip edge onto.

This task can be accomplished in a few hours using tools you should have around the house. However make sure that you do not nail into the tar strip. Drip edge flashing roof flashing the home depot store finder. Then i nail it down at about 4 in.

Lay a starting row at the bottom of the roof along the edge.