Making Wood Roof Shingles

Make sure all shingles on each side are covered.

Making wood roof shingles.

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. Now remove the bark from the wood and split into thin sheets.

Cut a piece of rolled roofing eight feet long. Pa mac demonstrates how to make wood shingles otherwise known as wood shakes for roofing material to go on his new log chicken house. Shingles are cut from blocks of wood shake bolts split out of a whole trunk of cedar. Once you get halfway through the tree then start at a downward angle above your original cut.

How to make your own shingles. Cut until the tree starts to lean and fall. Prep a wood shingle roof for reroofing a synthetic mesh underlayment allows continuous airflow between the roof deck and the shingles. In this video we learn how to make wood roof shingles by hand.

Make a template piece that will be used to mark all the others out with. Start off with round oak wood then split it with a splitting axe. Boards that allow air to circulate under the. Then use a mallet to split them out further.

Turning out handmade wooden shingles isn t difficult in itself the hard part is finding the right material. 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. Cover the length of the cedar shingle roof peak that the new layers of shingles have made.

Cover all of the nail heads with roofing cement. Each eight foot piece will be cut into thirds lengthwise. We found this to be the largest manageable size to work with.