Metal Roof Strapping Installation

Installing your roofing 1.

Metal roof strapping installation.

Most products can or must be installed on solid deck. Nail each hurricane strap to your truss or rafter with 16 penny framing nails when you install hurricane straps to a roof. You are essentially sealing off the metal roof with this flashing and you need to make sure that is securely fastened. Take your first sheet.

Place the first screw. Make sure that your truss and rafter are also toe nailed in place before you install your hurricane straps. This ensures that your trusses or rafters won t move during the installation of your straps. If you currently lack attic ventilation and have difficulty achieving it then there is good reason to consider strapping but you must choose an appropriate product and you may wish to install vertical strapping followed by horizontal and then actively venting the resulting chamber.

Place one shingle at the bottom left or right of the roof. Make sure to hook the bottom of the shingle into the bottom of the roof where there is an opening. When installing a metal roof over an existing roof before installing the. The eave flashing or edging is just the steel metal strips used to cover the entire perimeter of the roof.

Use a tool belt that has a hammer loop to hold nails a measuring tape chalk line and a hammer when installing the wood. Always begin working at the point with the longest peak to eave distance. In a standing seam roof long single panels run vertically all the way from the eave to the ridge. Be sure the larger edge is laid so that the small edge of the next panel will overlap it.

If you want to install steel over asphalt your best choice for installing metal roofing is to use a steel shingle system like the one shown instead of the more common and more expensive standing seam steel. You can use 1 inch nails for the installation of eave flashing. Align the first metal roofing panel so that it overlaps the edging by 1 2 to 3 4 of an inch and is square to the roof. Add the metal panels.

This is the starting point of the installation process. Next you are ready to install the metal roof. Use a hammer to tap the shingle gently just to make sure it s securely in. At a guess i would place the strapping no further apart than 16.

The gauge of the metal 24. 26 or 29 is a variable that must be considered as is the type of fastener and the pitch of the roof.