Shingles on the Roof

Shingles on the Roof

The underlayment, drip edge and flashing were finished last week and the shingles were delivered Friday.

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
A good start on Saturday

The roofers started early the next morning. They were out here by 5:30 on Saturday.

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Scaffolding and ladders

Roofing is hot hard work! It was so hot by 11:30, they were wrapping up.

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Putting on the Ridge Vent and finishing up the shingles!
Putting on the Ridge Vent and finishing up the shingles! – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Putting on the Ridge Vent and finishing up the shingles!
Finishing up the shingles! – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Finishing up the shingles!

Monday they were back very early again and they finished before lunch.

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Finishing the shingles
Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Finishing our Roof
Finishing up the shingles! – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Finishing up the shingles!
Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Finishing our Roof
One of the last rows of shingles! – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
One of the last rows of shingles!
Putting the shingles over the ridge vent – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Putting the shingles over the ridge vent

Here they are finishing the ridge vent. They are using Owens Corning Ventsure Rigid Strip Ridge Vent.

Owens Corning VentSure 4-Foot Strip Heat & Moisture Ridge Vents – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Owens Corning VentSure 4-Foot Strip Heat & Moisture Ridge Vents
Shingles Delivered - Project Small House
The roof vents

VentSure® 4-Foot Strip Heat & Moisture Ridge Vents help improve air flow through the attic. They are flexible enough to conform to virtually any roof slope and have a unique baffle design and Weather PROtector® moisture barrier to help provide outstanding performance.

  • Outstanding performance – net free vent area of 20 sq. in. per lineal foot
  • Unique design – flat baffle improves air flow by keeping leaves, pine needles or similar debris from impacting the performance of the vent
  • Excellent versatility – patent-pending corrugated ridge design and alignment tabs allow for additional flexibility and strength to accommodate virtually any roof pitch, resulting in a strong uniform ridgeline
  • Roof durability – proper ventilation helps maximize the performance of the entire roof system

As a key component of a VentSure® Balanced Air Ventilation System, the VentSure® InFlow® Vent is an essential part of the Total Protection Roofing System®.

Plumbing Vent Pipe with Vent Boot – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Plumbing Vent Pipe on right
Vent Boot ready to install on left
Plumbing Vent Pipe with Vent Boot – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Plumbing Vent Pipe with Vent Boot

These are the vents for the plumbing. The thing that is put around it to keep the water out is a vent boot.  The shingles and felt are under the boot, around the pipe. Then the boot is glued down with asphalt roof cement or something similar.

I couldn’t see the shingles before, since they were delivered directly to the roof. (I didn’t climb up there, although I was tempted when I saw they left the ladder up when they went to lunch.)

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
CertainTeed Saint-Gobain Landmark Shingles

This is the wrapper: CertainTeed Saint-Gobain Landmark Shingles

Landmark shingles have the installer-friendly NailTrak® feature, which provides 1 ½”  wide nailing area and specially formulated Quadra-Bond laminating adhesive.

Our Roof Has Shingles – Building our Schumacher Home – Project Small House
Roofing Instructions

I love it how all of our materials come with instructions.