Replacing A Roof On A Shed

Use a hammer and chisel or flat head screwdriver to break up the shingle.

Replacing a roof on a shed.

Here s how to fix a shingle on the wood roof of your shed. Begin shingling at the bottom edge of the roof starting at one end. The term pitch refers to the slope of the roof. Unscrew the trim on the existing roof and remove each piece of metal trim.

Lay the first panel of the new metal roof in the lower downwind corner and secure it to the purlins driving one. You ve got to get the old nails out that held the damaged shingle in place. Remove the broken shingle. Chance of lasting as long as the original and duncans inspection of the rest of the timber forming the shed showed that all of the remaining timbers including the foundations are in a good condition.

In order to adhere to standardized building codes and ensure adequate runoff your shed s roof must have a pitch of at least 3 12 read as three in twelve. Things needed extension ladder pry bar roofing felt roofing nails utility knife three tab shingles hammer. If you are talking roll granulated tarpaper rather than normal roofing materials like asphalt shingles then you can take off about 0 60 sf from the prices shown for shingles about 0 75 sf savings if not putting any underlayment under it though that gives you no protection against tears or punctures. Replacing the shed roof has given this shed many more years of service.

Lay the entire first row one at a time nailing each down with one inch roofing nails. Determine your desired roof pitch. Cost to replace a shed roof the average garden shed is 10 by 12 which is 120 square feet and the cost for installation alone would be 430 or 3 60 per square foot. General view of repaired shed with new roofing felt and gutter.

Place one nail at each corner a little way in from the edges and then one if not two in the middle. How to replace the roof of a metal storage shed step 1.