installing a roof from the top down
I do a lot of different work in the construction field from installing windows and doors, decks, bathrooms, and a lot of roofing. I read an article in Fine homebuilding a few years back about installing roofs from the top down (especially on steep pitches and hot weather) just completed a job and decided, after doing the first side the old fashioned way (ladders, brackets, cushions–you name it) to try it from the top down using scabs that the framers left on the roof when they sheathed it and it worked like a charm. Has anyone out there done this before?
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perhaps i dont understand this correctly but do you havto hold up the tabs on the row that is allready down (above the row you are nailing)?
And if so, where is the advantage?
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--> measure once / scribble several lines / spend some time figuring out wich scribble / cut the wrong line / get mad
" but do you havto hold up the tabs on the row that is allready down (above the row you are nailing)?"You do it in "lifts". Start maybe four or five feet from the top and shingle to the top, nailing the first row high.Then you go down to four or five feet below the lowest shingle and shingle up to it.It works great! The only difficulty is making sure you are starting in the correct place so the tabs line up!There was a thread on this just a couple of weeks ago.http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=56332.1Rich BeckmanAnother day, another tool.
Exactly! If you strike all your lines every five inches, which I do, And just pull off that first one--you are golden. It save walking on the shingles in the hot weather and having to put those pain in the a** roof brackets up the roof.
oh... I get it.. thats pretty neat______________________________________________
--> measure once / scribble several lines / spend some time figuring out wich scribble / cut the wrong line / get mad
I think Mike Smith had a nice concise post on this a year or so ago
cool thanks, i'll try to find it. I dont roof that often but im interested.______________________________________________
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here's the boom delivery for that roof we did last summer from the top-down
this is post # 109... the roofing description starts in post #120
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here's the link
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=44500.123Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore