Nail application of asphalt strip shingles for new and recover roofing the international building code ibc and the international residential building code irc require that roofing nails be utilized to fasten asphalt shingles.
Roofing stripe shingles.
As water runs down the roof surface it flows over each shingle till it reaches the eaves where it drips over the edge into your gutters or falls straight to the ground.
Proper nailing is essential to good performance.
Certainteed strip shingles include products such as ct 20 and xt 30.
The cellophane strip or in some products a plastic or wax coated paper strip found between individual asphalt roof shingles and located just over the glue strip that bonds shingles together is factory installed to prevent shingles from sticking together while they are still in the bundl e in storage.
Roof shingles are installed in such a fashion that each seam or joint is overlapped by a shingle further up the roof.
Prior to designer shingles being introduced in the 1980s strip shingles were the predominant roofing shingle in the market.
Peel and stick roofing.
Today strip shingles are used most often used by home builders that manufacture inexpensive homes or by homeowners who are replacing roofing shingles on residences that already have strip shingles on the roof.
Gaf quickstart 33 lin.
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A certainteed xt 25 strip shingle in the color evergreen.