INSTALLING ROOF SHINGLES BARDOLINE

Installing roof shingles is fast. The roof shingles are easy to transport: their packaging and their low weight facilitates handling and storage. They are installed on a full deck. Cutting roof shingles is simple with a cutter.
You have at your disposal a wide range of BARDOLINE bituminous shingles qualities, colours and forms to satisfy the needs of your customers.
Installing roof shingle is easy with standard tools:   

• Tools: 
  • Hammer
  • Cutter
  • Meter
  • Level.

• Accessories: 
  • Large headed galvanised nails
  • ONDUMASTIC
  • ONDUTISS STRONG
  • BITULINE

Installing roof shingles step by step

Good to know:

• A full deck, like OSB, is needed to install shingles. 
• Install shingles starting from the eave.
• Cut the shingles on the back of the granulated face.
• Installing roof shingles varies according to the slope and the climatic zone of the project. Call us to find out what the constraints of your project are.
   

Prepare installation 

• Check the structure so that it is perfectly flat - an irregularity is unattractive and can cause infiltration
• Seal by covering the roof with Ondutiss Strong parallel to the eave
• Ensure 10 cm horizontal overlap and 15 cm at the ends 
• Fix the underlayer securely with staples and large-headed nails. 

Fix Bardoline 

• Guide wide-headed BARDOLINE nails: heads must be straight and deep without damaging the shingle.
• For steep slopes (> 60 °), use additional nails and ONDUMASTIC to seal.

Install roof shingles 

• Start installing roof shingles from the bottom and go on to the ridge. Start each row by the gable end.
• 1st strip: Prepare the first strip by cutting the head lap of the shingles. Shorten the shingle of one tab so that the joints are not aligned with the 1st row.
• 1st course: Start with a complete shingle and continue on the first row, fixing the shingles as you go.
• 2nd and following courses:
  • Shorten the shingle of a tab. Secure the shingle so that the lower end of the tab aligns with the top of the 1st course shingle cut out.
  • For 3rd course, shorten one tab.
  • For the 4th and the following courses, always shift the shingle laying by shortening by half a tab
• Glue the rakes with ONDUMASTIC for a better seal.

Fix the ridge

• Cut triangles at the notches of each leg to form each shingle ridge element. 

• Fix the triangles on ridge in the opposite direction to prevailing winds.
• Secure them with 2 nails on each side and an bead of ONDUMASTIC.

For the installation of all the other specific parts of the roof, please have a look at our BARDOLINE installation guide.

Find several documents on BARDOLINE that may help you to sell and install our roofing shingles: commercial brochures, certifications, technical datasheets, declaration of de performance (DOP), …
 

Any question about installing roofing shingles? Please contact us!