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Review Prep Work and Install Starter Strips

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My FIRST TIME Roofing. NEVER AGAIN! (EP.8)

What happens here

After two full days of prep work on the roof, including underlayment and freeze barrier, the presenter reviews the completed preparatory layers on one side of the house. He notes the process went a bit slower due to double valleys, but expresses satisfaction with the progress. He takes a break, commenting on the extreme heat (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and the trade-off between rain and dry heat for roofing work. He highlights the importance of staying cool with heat-treated work shirts and breathable boots, though he playfully laments that roofers using sneakers have better maneuverability. He then points out a previous error where he drove a nail through his finger while using the nail gun, emphasizing the importance of specialized roofing nails with rings to prevent pull-out. The final preparations for shingle installation begin with the installation of starter strips. The presenter demonstrates how to cut a full shingle to create a starter strip, ensuring it overhangs the drip edge by 1/4 to 3/4 inches, and then secures it with nails along a marked adhesive line. This adhesive prevents wind and rain from lifting the shingles.

Goal: Complete all foundational layers and begin shingle installation

Tools and materials

  • Roofing Nail Gun
  • Tape Measure
  • Utility Knife
  • Architectural Shingles

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yeah and dry dry that's a I always keep thinking I'm like well our climate here is a dry heat not a muggy nasty oh man all right it's day two of applying this underlayment and all Edge Guard we're almost done we just gotta wrap up that piece and then one more Eve on the other side would be good cooking up a storm yesterday I had to leave a little bit early the heat was getting to us I'm wearing everything that I can to stay cool got my area rebar work heat treated uh work shirt it's got the ventec technology so it breathes through so I look like a sloppy Pig right now but then it just cools me off and then the rebar shorts are a clutch except if I get my hand knees on shingles that thing does not feel good and my boots had ventec technology as well for breathability but I keep seeing all these roofers using sneakers so these are my couple of half marathons that I ran in these and it kind of allows for me to maneuver quicker especially on this felt so all gray stuff check the link in description below you'll get a discount code save some money and work with you know they don't write safety instructions but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to drive a nail through your finger good thing they have rings around them to keep them hard from pulling out so that's a good thing about roofing nails so ah oh it's pulling out actually hurts more than keeping it in there I'm gonna have to shut down the YouTube channel now this is account I'm I'm on disability now we are so irritated that scheduling to work out if we had everything already wrapped they could have just set the shingles right on the Ridge and then we could just take our sweet time now we got to move him wrap our Top Ridge and then shingle hate when things don't line up okay so we got all of our underlayment on check we then attached the side uh drip edge so that's checked it's holding the underlayment down next thing we do is the starter layer the starter layer uh a lot of old school guys would use just the shingle and flip it over but uh they're recommending to use an actual starter strip and the way the starter strip works is essentially it's a half of a shingle and it has this adhesive side right here so what you do is you lay it about they have it between a quarter to a maximum of three quarters overhang usually guys will do about a quarter and then they'll nail it down four nails down the middle and what this will do is that when it's raining and windy uh this adhesive part is sticking to the…

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