I’ve decided to roof the house I’m currently building….usually I sub out the roofing, but I’ve got a capable crew who wants to take it on and I’d rather pay them and me and maintain some QC without a fight.
The roof is mostly 12/12 with 6 dormers and a few other little “Architectual Details” but not overly complex.
But I always dread those first courses, especially on a steep roof with 20′ or so of exposure…and the drudgery of cutting and placing starter shingles.
So, the other night, surfing the web for any little tips I might find to make the whole job a little easier and more efficient, I find a step-by-step layout of a roof a DIYer put on his house (with a similar steep configuration to what I’m about to do) and in one of his photos, he’s rolling out a stick-down starter strip, similar to ice and water, but about 7″ wide and in 33′ rolls and with mastic strips along the lower edge to seal the finish shingles down.
The next day, I called my roofing supplier (Allied Building Supply….big nationwide company), and they’d never heard of it! Same with my 2 local yards.
Next night, I get on the web, and after a bit of a search voila! Owens-Corning makes it…
No more 3 tab to lug around and cut up!
Anybody here used this stuff?
Sounds like a Godsend to me!
And I’m gonna feel really stupid if somebody chimes in hear and says “Oh, Hell! That stuff’s been around for years!”
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I've heard of, but never seen the rolls. What I do use, though, is precut starter strips. They're considerably cheaper than 3 tabs, and the cutting labor is taken out of equation. The roll seems fiddly to me on a roof that steep. How could you install 33' of it at a time?
Greencu, you don't roll the entire 33' out. You just roll out the section that you can reach and leave the rest rolled up waiting for your next move. I use clamps to keep the thing from rolling away.
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Yeah, I knew that. The roll just doesn't seem as easy to use as the individual strips, but that's probably just my mind set. On a walkable roof I see the ease of use.
I invented individual stripping.
Green, theres nothing wrong with cutting those starter strips into 10' lengths either. You just have to avoid lining up the cut with the joint on the first course. That isn't too hard to deal with.
blueIf you want to read a fancy personal signature... go read someone else's post.
unroll and nail at the same time...
can only go so far... use a spring clamp to hold the rolled up rest of the roll in place till you can get to it...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
I used some roll starter a few years back when I roofed my spec house. I thought it was great.
When to the same yard and asked for it this year, and they quit carrying it. The stuff they had in stock sat there so long they ended up throwing it away. Guess guys didn't like it, so it didn't sell.
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
It has been.. No kidding...
Stuff is a great time saver... works pretty well...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
12/12 , 6 dormers ,BUT NOT OVERLY COMPLICATED! i gotta ask whats complicated? 16/12 with 6 eyebrows? lol larry