Before committing to this how to roof a house project, try this: Get out a ladder and climb up onto your roof. If you can’t walk around on it comfortably, hire a pro. If you passed this first test, go to the lumberyard or home center and throw a bundle of shingles onto your shoulder. Imagine yourself carrying that load up a ladder…many, many times.

If you’re still feeling positive about this how to roof a house at this point, why not give it a shot? You can skip a lot of heavy lifting by having your roofing supplier hoist the shingles onto the roof. Be sure you spread the load evenly across the length of the roof’s peak. However, don’t have the shingles delivered to the roof if you still have two layers of old shingles to tear off–it could be too much weight for your trusses.

After you’ve obtained a permit (if needed) and safely stripped the roof clean, nail drip edge flashing flush along the eave. Windblown heavy rain and/or snow can force water up and under even properly installed shingles. Even worse are ice dams (frozen water/snow that builds up on roof edges), which can wreak havoc by allowing water to seep up under lower shingles and then drip into your house. To guard against such seepage, apply self-adhesive waterproof underlayment (“ice barrier”), which adheres tightly to bare roof sheathing and seals around nails driven through it. Buy it at roofing supply companies or home centers. In severe climate regions, most building codes require applying it 3 to 6 ft. up from the eave (minimum of 2 ft. past the exterior wall). Call your building inspector for local details mobile comes out.

However, what about your house’s roof? And shifting out a couple of shingles will only address the difficulties for such a long time. Here are eight hints that signal it could be time to replace your roof.

Like many areas of your residence, roof requires room to breathe. In other words there needs to be a balance between the number of air ingestion in the soffits and also the air ducts near the form of the roof.

Inadequate roof ventilation may have serious consequences. By means of example, if your roofing becomes overheated on hot days it will dry the roof shingles and direct them into delaminate or become brittle and have ignored with a solid wind during storms. A poorly ventilated roof may also cause warmth from the attic and cause mould on the base of the roof.

If your attic is 1,200 square feet, then you’ll have to have at least 6 square feet of ventilation.