The nails must be long enough to penetrate at least 3 4 into wood decks or just through plywood or osb decks.
Roofing nails or staples.
Put fasteners at least every 8 inches.
Roll out about 10 feet of felt and fasten with staples or roofing nails with plastic washer heads.
3 degree electro galvanized steel roofing nails 5 lb pack for applying roofing asphalt shingles insulation board and felt to wood substrates.
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Also this crap about 1x6 boards reroofs on most board roofs need to be replaced with 4x8 sheathing.
In some areas of the country building codes do not allow roofing staples for roof installation for these reasons.
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Does underwriters laboratories ul recognize the use of staples.
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In the past when it came to the debate of roofing nails versus staples the industry was split down the middle.
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Fasteners should be driven straight and flush with the shingle surface figure 2 10 above courtesy of steven bliss best practices guide to residential construction.
Hodges roofing only uses nails.
Both nails and staples should be long enough to penetrate the roof sheathing by 3 4 inch or penetrate 1 4 inch through the sheathing if it is less than 3 4 inch thick.
Use a construction stapler or a hammer.
Hand naming will not do it.
Today s roofing nail guns are designed to hold high capacity nail magazines.
Staples cost less than nails offer exceptional holding strength and cover a greater area of space with a more versatile and compact collation.
Ul which historically used staples for wind speed testing.
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Another point is roofing nails do not have the barbs.
Use the grip rite 11 x 1 1 4 in.
18 ga x 1 4 in.
3 use the grip rite 11 x 1 1 4 in.
We are talking nails hand or gun.
A roofing staple is a little more than 1 16 inch wide.
Also a roofing nail head is approximately 1 4 inch in diameter.