Making Wood Roof Shingles

Each eight foot piece will be cut into thirds lengthwise.

Making wood roof shingles.

Cut a piece of rolled roofing eight feet long. How to make your own shingles. Now remove the bark from the wood and split into thin sheets. Boards that allow air to circulate under the.

Cut until the tree starts to lean and fall. Pa mac demonstrates how to make wood shingles otherwise known as wood shakes for roofing material to go on his new log chicken house. Turning out handmade wooden shingles isn t difficult in itself the hard part is finding the right material. Cover all of the nail heads with roofing cement.

Keep your eyes on the tree as it falls and move quickly out of the way. As the shingle or the sawn shake use less wood they are financially preferred for large areas such as roofs today. Make a template piece that will be used to mark all the others out with. Cover the length of the cedar shingle roof peak that the new layers of shingles have made.

In this video we learn how to make wood roof shingles by hand. Lay down a layer of shingles with a second layer over the top until the shingles meet at a single straight peak. If an old roof was once covered with wood shingles or shakes they were likely nailed to skip sheathing which consists of widely spaced 1 in. Make sure to use clean and straight grained oak to do this.

One side will be straight and one side will be wavy. Take the limbs off and move it to a cleared area where you can make your wood shingles. Prep a wood shingle roof for reroofing a synthetic mesh underlayment allows continuous airflow between the roof deck and the shingles. Start off with round oak wood then split it with a splitting axe.

Then use a mallet to split them out further. Once you get halfway through the tree then start at a downward angle above your original cut. Make sure all shingles on each side are covered.