How to nail Roofing Felt
How to Easily Felt a Shed Roof The Right Way- DIY
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hello guys and welcome in this video
I'll be showing you how I reef lted my
shed roof now I don't have any
particular skills in doing this job but
I didn't find it too difficult at all
so if you have a shed roof that needs
doing hopefully this video will give you
the confidence to do it yourself do a
good job of it and even save money along
the way right then even though these
sheds only a few years old you can see
that the felt is absolutely ruined the
nails are popping out there's leaks all
over the place inside there's moss on
the sides and all the wood around the
edge of the roof
has just totally started to rot away and
fall off I really don't understand why
shed company still insist on using this
rubbish rubish felt on their shed roof
as within a few years it just literally
disintegrates so what we're gonna do
here is some really good prep work it's
all in the preparation so we're gonna
prep this shed roof as best as we can
and then cover it in something far
better than the rubbish you buy in the
local DIY stores a point to note is that
nibbles is a resident in this shed and
she's not happy at all
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so the first thing I do then is check
the inside of the shed there are leaks
coming through this all over the place
but what I'm doing here is just making
sure that the wood looks salvageable and
looks okay obviously if there's anything
totally rotted away there it will have
to come out and I'll have to read you
know replace some of the planks but
looking at the inside of this one it's
actually held up quite well which is
very lucky for me but I won't know for
sure until I take the old crappy felt
off the top and have a look at it from
the top down so I'm going to start here
by taking the strips of wood off the
sides and pull any nails out that might
be sticking out it's important to get
all the nails out if you can because
obviously the new felt that you put on
could get caught on it and could get
ripped etcetera so you want to do as
best as you can here and take all the
nails out from around the edge
unfortunately these strips of wood are
totally unsalvageable
they've rotted through in most places
and they're covered in mass sands
they're all wet and even though this is
supposed to be treated wood it really
hasn't lasted so it's all got to be
pulled off and replaced
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once the trims been removed I go ahead
and pull off all the old felt from the
roof and then I get a hard broom and
start scrubbing away to get as much
debris off the roof as as possible and
while I'm going round I'm also going
around with the claw hammer and taking
out any nails that I find now I've been
meaning to do this job for quite a while
but the weather hasn't allowed me to and
my intention was to spend quite a bit of
time on the preparation work for the
shed because obviously I don't want to
be doing this job over and over again
every couple of years so I wanted to get
it right this time and put a product on
there and do the prep work good enough
so that it's gonna last I don't know 10
or 15 years now depending on how much
time you've got to do this job you could
actually get this done in half a day but
I waited for a three or four day span
where there was going to be definitely
no rain as I wanted to spend a little
bit of time on the prep work and get it
right so after I took all the old felt
off the wood underneath was quite damp
from where it had been leaking so what I
did was as I've got a couple of days to
do this I left the shed all afternoon
and overnight to in an attempt to dry
the wood out a little bit before I
carried on on the second day I got a big
tub of Ron steel wood preserver and
absolutely covered the whole roof in it
with two coats
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right then so let's try and work out how
much material I'm gonna need to cover
this shed roof so this is a top-down
view of my shed roof and the first
measurement I'm going to take is the
width so I'm going to put my tape
measure right at the top there pull it
over the top of the roof and then down
to the other side and jot down
how many centimeters that is so the
width of my roof in total is 268
centimeters and as I want to leave a 6
centimeter overhang at each side I add
the two six centimeters to the 268 so
the total width I need is two hundred
and eighty centimeters at this point the
rolls have felt that I'm going to be
using coming at a hundred centimeters
wide but I need to overlap the top piece
at at least 10 centimeters either side
so if I add those two 10 centimeter
overlaps to my current measurements the
total width of the material I'll need is
300 centimeters and as the felts 100
centimeters wide I'll need three sheets
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looking at the length of a shed then I
measure straight from left to right and
my shed came out at 371 centimeters but
this time I want to leave 10 centimeters
either side for the overhang so I have
the two 10 centimeter overhangs to the
371 and the total length of the material
I need comes out at 391 centimeters now
as these rolls come in 8 meter lengths
so that's 800 centimeters I should be
able to get two lengths out of one roll
therefore I should only need to buy two
rolls of the felt which is great okay so
the material I've chosen then is this
torch on polyester based roofing felt
which is much thicker and much much
stronger than the rubbish stuff you buy
from the local DIY stores now this is
torch on roofing felt which is usually
put on with a blowtorch but as we're
only doing a shed with this we won't
need to do that so don't worry you don't
need to torch this stuff on you can put
it on exactly the same way as the
regular roofing felt just to prove how
strong this polyester based roofing felt
is I thought I'd show you a quick rip
test so on the left is the regular
roofing felt and on the right is the new
polyester based torch on roofing fellas
no effort at all is needed to rip the
regular roofing fealty Rip's like tissue
paper but the new stuff you have to put
all your energy into it just to get it
to tear it's fantastic stuff e-readers
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okay so the reason for the overhang on
the roof is because then the sides of
the shed there is there is wood going
down there which is about four and a
half five centimetres deep so if I go
six centimetres on the felt I'll be
covering the wood and that way the water
will drip off the roof without actually
touching the wood behind it on the front
and back it's about nine and a half ten
centimetres so if I go for 10 or 11
centimetres that should be fine as an
overhang on the front and the back right
then we're finally ready to get this job
done so I'm gonna roll out the first
roll on the grass and measure out my
first length cutting it's very simple if
you get a straight edge you can cut it
with a regular Stanley blade or a hooked
knife I think would work better I didn't
have one of those so I just used a
regular Stanley and it works out just
fine once you've cut your first length
just roll it back up and then pop it on
the roof ready to be laid out right so
you can put a chalk line across your
roof where this first piece needs to be
attached to but I didn't want to do that
one because I haven't got a chock line
or anything like that and to because
it's a dark roof eat you can't actually
write on it you can't see where you've
written on it with a pencil so what I
did was I measured the right hand side
and the right overhang and the bottom
overhang and popped a nail in at the top
just so it didn't slide off the roof
when I thought I'd got it absolutely
bang-on
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I then rolled it all out across the
length of the roof and along the way I
adjusted it making sure it was
absolutely level
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I then pulled it nice and tight and
popped another nail in the top when I
knew I'd got it bang gone
now because of the length of my shed
roof there's a good chance that the
middle of this felt will sort of sag
down a little bit so what I did was I
also measured the middle to make sure it
was still okay and not sagging and I put
another nail in at the top so I ended up
with three nails just keeping this
absolutely square on the roof the
plastic sheet there at the top of the
felt is where the top layer of felt will
overhang this one and I put more nails
II and every six inches or so across
this sheet checking my measurements at
the bottom as I go I forgot to mention
I'm actually using 12 millimeter clout
nails here all around the shed
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next I pull down on the felt so it's
nice and tight and fix the overhang to
the strips of wood underneath
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finishing off these corners is quite
easy I think they call it a dogleg you
literally just fold all the material
underneath so it's nice and tight and
then pull it around the corner you could
either put it around the sides or in the
front it's entirely up to you depending
on where your strips of wood are gonna
be a range of shared so I just pour this
nice and tight around the corner I pop a
clamp nail in the top and also one in
the bottom to make sure it's not going
to go anywhere
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nice and neat
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I perform exactly the same job on the
other side of the shed and then I'm
ready for the top piece so as I'm going
to be overlapping the top piece of the
felt I want to make sure that the
overlap is absolutely stuck firm to each
other so the top and bottom sheets are
absolutely stuck firm so I've bought a
tin of this roofing felt adhesive which
is really thick tacky strong stuff
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so I measure at the top piece the cat
piece and I roll it out across the shed
unfortunately I forgot to record what I
did next but it's pretty much exactly
the same as the bottom pieces so the
other side to which you can see here
I've squared the top piece up and put
three clap nails in just to make sure it
stays absolutely square I then pulled
the felt nice and tight over the ridge
of the roof checks my measurements again
just in case and when I knew everything
was fine I went ahead and applied the
roof felt adhesive and stuck the two
pieces together
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when sides took this side down I put
three nails in as before just to hold it
there and then on the other side I took
the three nails out so I could lift up
the felt and stick down that side once
both sides were stuck firmly I then went
around just like underneath and popteen
every six inches some more clout now to
make sure it was as secure as possible
and apologies again I forgot to press
record on the video recorder because I'm
a numpty but it's pretty
self-explanatory and you'll see in the
pictures anyway
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right then to finish off I actually only
want to put wooden strips on the front
and back of the shed at this stage I
don't want to put any down the sides so
I've been out and bought some I think
it's just feather edged board which is
treated but I'll also treated with the
Ron seal would preserver anyway and I
use the old strips that I ripped off as
sizing templates and to try to figure
out what the angle is of the ridge
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once the boards are at the right size
they're simply just nailed on to the
front back of the shed with regular wood
nails
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well I hope you've enjoyed this video
and that it will give you the confidence
to have a go yourself I've never done
this before so again it was a first for
me
and I think it turned out rather well
I'll add list of materials in the
description and obviously costs and
things like that and I wish you all the
best see you soon guys
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