How To Roof With Dimensional Shingles

Before these shingles came onto the market t lock and 3 tab shingles were the most widely used for shingle roof replacement.

How to roof with dimensional shingles.

Here is a guide to help you compare the differences between these two types of shingles so that you can make the best. This is a roofing demonstration of how to install shingles on one side of your roof diy. Dimensional roof shingles have evolved into many different designs shapes colors and sizes. The term dimensional is merely the over arching category that architectural shingles fall into.

This is just a dem. Put another way an architectural shingle is fancier designed dimensional shingle. These chalk lines will serve as a guide for subsequent even numbered rows of shingles and odd numbered rows respectively. But the old shingles looked flat and had no depth.

Roofers started to put layers of shingles in shapes on top of the first layer to add dimension which started the idea of the dimensional shingles. If you are in the process of replacing your roof or are putting one on for the first time your contractor may ask you what type of shingles you would like to use. Snap a vertical chalk line from the inside edge of the first shingle on the second row to the top of the roof and from the inside edge of the first shingle to the top of the roof. In some cases you ll have to remove the siding.

You ll need to pry the siding outward to slip in the flashing. Of course if you are not familiar with your options this decision can be a bit harder.