Too much overhang and the shingles could blow off in high winds.
How much overhang for roof shingles.
Too much and the shingles can blow off.
Position the side of hook knife against the drip edge beneath the shingle with the blade facing.
Simply put this is faulty installation where the shingles extend too far over the edge of the roof or are too close to the edge.
I was worried that because the edge shingle is the bottom layer fixing this would require redoing it.
The edge of the shingles should hang over a roof between an inch and an inch and a half or between a half inch and three quarters of an inch if drip edge flashing is installed.
In this installment of our series on roofing problems we ll talk about incorrect overhang of shingles.
Knowing how much overhang roof shingles should have is only a small part of the job.
There is a lot to know a lot to do and a whole lot to be carried.
Ed the roofer if what you say about fixing the problem cutting the edge is the proper way to do it than i m not terribly upset.
After each shingle line has been laid one shingle will overhang the rake edge.
The length of the overhang itself commonly ranges from 2 to 5 inches.
Too little overhang and the water can leak through into fascia boards.
The 3 4 overhang of the shingle creates a full 1 overhang from the fascia to the edge of the shingle.