alright so in this video I'm gonna go over the proper method for installing both three tab and architectural shingles I'm going to be covering the basic layout and installation considerations here so if you need more information on nailing and shingling specific areas of the roof such as valleys hips and working around dormers and chimneys please go to the separate video sections in the series for those areas so as I've mentioned before there are a variety of ways to apply different shingles correctly certain specialty shingles have layout techniques that are different from what I'll describe here so remember always check the directions for each particular type of shingle that you're using fortunately the directions are printed on each bundle of shingles so you can just you should just look at the bundle to see to see if the method that you're going to use is correct and this is the back of the one of the bundles of shingles that we're going to use and can see a sort of starts at the beginning and goes to the end it's kind of hard to just follow this and do it do the whole roof correctly it's probably why you're watching this video but always reference this especially for the layout technique so we're going to describe and it'll tell you which is which which are good ideas and which which types of techniques you shouldn't follow so the techniques I'm about to describe as I've said are gonna work with both a standard three tab and architectural also called the laminated shingle there are alternate methods for installing both of these varieties of shingles so I want to be clear about that I'm gonna describe one technique that worked for both varieties okay if you need read the manufacturer's instructions and want to try another pattern go for it if you're working with your buddy that's helping you and says he's done this before and tells you he can do it a different way I'd be real careful you want to always read the package and make sure that the layout setup that you're using for that shingle is approved by the manufacturer for that type of shingle I've seen a lot of problems I go over that on my videos with different layouts being wrong for that particular type of shingles so make sure to follow one of the manufacturers recommended techniques so or you start with either the of the three tab or architectural shingle you're going to want to chalk chocolate lines on the roof to help you with your layout again the layout we're going to use is three tab or architect friendly however if you're working with an architectural shingle keep in mind that the reveal may be different then what we're doing on the layout here so you'll need to adjust the layout measurements accordingly again on the shingle package is going to tell you exactly how far to make your reveal for that area I covered the installation of starter shingles in more depth in another section of the video in summary either use a designated starter shingle that looks like this or you can use a three tap shingle with the taps cutoff that looks like this let this first shingle hang over the edge of the roof or drip edge no more than one inch since we've already got the starter shingles on here we're only going to need to mark outlines for the filled shingles keep in mind that while the filled shingles are 12 inches wide the reveal of each shingle and a standard pitch roof is 5 inches so ultimately the lines that we make are going to be 5 inches apart going up the roof I've mentioned this before and I'm you're gonna see me using this in a couple sections of the video but to make your marks as visible as possible I love using this type of silver sharpie it shows up great on this black felt paper and just helps you be a little more accurate as you're doing a roof if you can see your lines really well pencils tend to blend in a lot depending on the sunlight so so for demonstration purposes we're going to go ahead and chalk a line for each quarts of shingles once you get comfortable with doing shingles you can probably skip every other line and make a mark every 10 inches you could also skip the first line is pretty pretty easy to line up the first shingle as good as it's gonna be even with the bottom shingle but like I said for this purpose is just to make it real clear we're gonna go boom-boom-boom up the roof alright so pulling your tape from the bottom of the starter shingle you're gonna make a mark of 12 inches because that's the width of the first angle it's actually 12 minute I'm gonna keep it simple here and call it 12 inches your second mark is going to be at 17 inches so that's five inches up from 12 so after that mark every line is going to be 5 inches apart so you go from 17 to 22 to 27 and so on at the roof go ahead mark your lines here go to the other end of the roof and Mark the same lines make sure you're you're making the same the same distances at the other end of the roof and go ahead and stack the lines so once you got your lines on we're ready to begin running our singles so we're gonna start going to show you how to do the three tab shingle again this method will work basically the same for architectural shingles now as I understand it in some areas of the country it is common to lay out your shingle with a staggered pattern so that the tabs in the in the channel in between them don't all line up and it's possible to do it that way but for simplicity sake I'm gonna teach you the technique called six up six off which is going to leave us with a regular pattern with the three taps again architects are different so they're gonna look staggered so on a section of roof like this you could you could really start on either end if it's if it's wide open in this case because we've got the dormer back here behind me we're gonna start over here on the left side so it's gonna be really easy to get started and then we'll work our way over to the dormer and the valleys and stuff like that so if you're right-handed like me it's easier to begin on the left side because the shingles be over here and you're working with the gun or your nail hammer on the right hand side so if you're left-handed you might find it easier to start on the right side of the roof that's up to you so most often though you're where you start is gonna be determined by what else you're shingling over to so you're gonna start by applying a full shingle again that keeps it easy and we made that allowances for that with the three with the starter shingle here by cutting it short so that the tabs don't line up you want to keep make sure to keep it flush with both the outside of the starter shingles on the on the gable end and also with the bottom edge of the starter shingle as I discussed in the fascinating set section you're going to use four nails per shingles and this on this first single you want to make sure not to nail too close to the outside edge over here normally put put your shingle right at the at the edge of the shingle we don't want our nail to go through the drip edge or anything like that so we're gonna bring it in a little bit farther that's kind of common sense but just make sure you don't shoot through your drip edge and they're actually nailing into some wood it's gonna be a little bit further back the others the other nails are going to go always going to go low right here below the below the glue line above each channel and again over here at the outside edge of the shingle so the next shingle going up the roof is going to be six inches shorter so what you're going to do is cut off six inches off the left side of the shingle okay over here you don't want to cut it off the the shingle over here so I have a nice factory but joint going over here and a nice little tip is that on these three tabs shingles they've made a little notch six inches in which is right in the middle of this tab so it might be hard to see on the camera but there's a little mark right here so that's going to help you line up your six inches cuts as you go go up the roof so we're going to get it lined up here again it's on lined up even with the outside of the starter shingle we got it lined up nice center line and we're going to go ahead and again you want to be careful about getting your nail too close to the edge so we can just put two nails right here over top of this this channel and then another nail here and then again on the edge here the following shingle which is gonna be the third shingle up the roof gets another six inches cut off of it which is going to take off a full tab remember your tabs on your three tab shingles are a 1 foot wide 12 inches wide so we went six inches off we took another six inches off that which is a foot which is the full tab here so I think you're starting to get the idea here we're just moving our way up the roof and again same idea keep it keep it flush with the outside edge keep it even with our mark up here and we're gonna we're going to nail it the same as the other ones all right so the fourth shingle in our series here is going to be another six inches shorter which you can make this shingle eighteen inches wide this is half of the full three tap shingle and it's just gonna go on just like the other ones I think you're getting the idea here one point that I want to make about when I nailed this third course is you want to be careful where you put this nail again you can't get too much closer to the outside because there's nothing to nail to over here but you also want to make sure that the nails not going to be gonna be as far away from this joint as possible so I could tell by looking at this course where the joint was gonna fall because you'll see it it lines up right here so when I put this nail in I just try to keep it as far away from this joint as I could while still finding some plywood underneath it here so basically you can line that up nail it in place just like the other ones and so on until we get to the sixth shingle which is and then we're going to just start back again with a full with a full shingle and move on off to the right here all right so we've reached the sixth course up which you can see left us with a tab that's six inches wide up here I put put two nails in here again always make sure not to get too close to the edge I've got two two nails in here and we've got the six courses on so that completes our pattern we can go ahead and start filling in going this way with full full shingles we can't go any smaller than the six inch tab so the next shingle up and you'll see this in a second is going to be a full shingle just like this first courses down here until you reach the other side of the roof or some obstruction like this dormer all the shingles you're going to be used from from here on often these six courses are going to be full sized and nailed just as we described in in that section as I've shown you here once you reach the seventh course you just start back with the same six up six off pattern until you reach the twelfth course when it starts all over again you can see women working up here we've worked over to our dormer this could be this this tip I'm about to show you can be used when you're coming into a dormer a chimney skylight or if you've reached the other side of the roof and you're gonna have to trim your shingles off shorter so instead of using a tape measure to figure out the length of the shingle the easiest way to measure it and cut it is to do it just like this so what you're gonna do is flip the shingle over 180 degrees so it's upside-down and the outside edge is flush with the with whatever you're coming up to you're gonna make a mark here and then make a straight cut on that line then when you flip the shingle over you're gonna be good to go and the shingle is gonna be trimmed to the right length you never had to get your tape measure out all right so now we're onto fastening the architectural shingles this just so you know this is the certainteed landmark Pro weather wood is the color and on these shingles it does differ and you need to check but for these architectural shingles the reveal is going to be five and five eighths of an inch so that's a little bit different than are the reveal for the three tab shingles which is five inches so you're going to need to adjust your chalk lines to make a mark every five and five eighths of an inch rather than five inches and to apply these shingles we're going to use basically the same technique as with the three tabs and that's going to leave us with that same diagonal pattern so to start with we're going to take a full shingle and line it up with the bottom of the starter shingle in the corner just just the same as with three tabs all right so I got the shingle on here and we go into this in far more detail in the the section on fastening but I want you to just remember you want to nail directly on the line here and this this shingle not all architectural shingles but this shingle has several lines that are marked on here that indicate where you can put the nails in this case I'm always going to go with the lower the lower place so we've got four nails in here and you may not be able to pick up the blue line real well on the camera but there's a blue line on here down here we're put the shingles again don't you don't want to get too close to the edge because there's really nothing over here to nail to you're going to put the nails about one inch in from the edges and thirteen inches apart in the field so again in the section I'm fasting I cover this but the next shingle is gonna have a have a break right here and you want to make sure that this second nail isn't anywhere near where the butt joint of the other shingle is alright so this is going to be the second course of shingles I've gone and cut six inches off the left side again we want the factory edge where we're going to but over here on the right so I cut six inches off the left and it's going to go down here I've got my mark my line chalked up here where it's going to go and we're gonna nail it in right there and you can see the point that I was making earlier is our first nails here and my second nail is over here so the butt joint of these two shingles is going to be real far away from either of these nails so any water that gets in behind the shingle isn't going to ever reach that nail before the third course cut twelve inches off the left side of the shingle and again it's just going to go in right here on our line all the way over to the side and right here making sure that nails are away from the butt joint all right so for the fourth course we took another six inches off the left side so it's as six inches quarter excuse me six inches shorter than the last course and then for the fifth course we're just going to keep it the same it takes six inches off and this shingle is going to go on go on here and there's not going to be a butt joint over top of this shingle so you don't have to be as concerned with the placement of the nails you definitely want to keep them low but as far as where it goes in here because there's going to be a full shingle that goes on top of this one so now we've established the the pattern that's going to carry us through the rest of the roof keep running the shingles in this five core course pattern as you go up the roof and that'll get you there from here on out just like with the three tab is gonna be full shingles from here to the other side of the roof or to an obstruction like this and then when you get to this this row you're going to have a full shingle here and start with the six inches off going up enjoy this video but still wondering how to roof the rest of your house go now to roofing intelligence com where you can instantly watch the entire 17 part series I've created that covers all aspects of shingle roofing