well welcome back to Steve Brown reviews today we're going to put the rolled roofing on the
garden shed here I'm going to show you the product that I used but first I just thought I'd let you
know after about thirty years I'm retiring this old plastic square and went with this metal one
here guys this is ten times better and yeah this one here guess what not very good use on steel
especially hot steel it melts okay so let's get on to it here this is the roofing material I've
showed this in the past here this brand right here I get this at Home Depot comes in a big roll and
it's only for the valleys on a house but I use it for the whole roof when I'm building a flat
roof and for the first time in my life I'm going with this this is the OS b5 Massino 7/16 its 7/16
and I was going to put on half inch plywood I was over at my home depot and I'm talking
to a buddy of mine there I've met him there so many times I'm over there so often I know a lot
of the contractors and he said you want me give you a hand with that plywood cuz you know I got
to pull the sheets off there right so he said what do you use them for so I told him he goes
no no no no this is what you want to do go with this stuff now he's telling me the 7/16 has twice
the shear strength as the half-inch plywood now this stuff here seventeen bucks a sheet plywood
thirty-two dollars a sheet he said go with that what you're doing is fine so I said okay notice
one side is kind of textured and the other side is kind of smooth right so I said what side you
put up he goes well doesn't really matter the shear strength is the same except if you've got
like a steep roof or something you don't want the shiny side up is too slow for you to work
on but either side is fine so I decided to go with the shiny side up because it's a fairly
flat roof so I've got this rolled roofing here and I got one layer of it up on the roof right
now just sitting there letting it get flat in the Sun and what I've done is I've a couple of
clamps and small little pieces of wood so I lay it out exactly where I want and then I clamp it
down and then I'll show you what I'm gonna do so I'm gonna prop you up on the ladder I got
out here we're going to see how this goes and we'll see if if you like this idea of roofing
no I can't recommend this roofing material I've only working with this for about maybe three
years maybe four years tops so far it's working out fine but there's a lot of reasons why I like
to use this I'll explain it at the end here but let's go outside let's take a look to see what
I got going on okay you can see right there I've got the rolled roofing on there and I gotta fold
it back in half and I'll just pan across here like this you could see I got the clamp on the
end here so let's uh I'll just show you how this works and then we'll we'll see how easy this is
okay now we'll just lift it up roll it over there she is I'll go down there roll the rest down
okay I'm back just pulling this strip off
now I'll go to the center here I'll pull it down let it flop over the side
man their stuff is sticky
there we go just like that
there she is all done well here's from the bottom little shop from the bottom here and you could see
I just got it over about three quarters of an inch and of course at the other end the same and guys
I tell you what that stuff's not moving nowhere you just touch your finger on it it's just a ball
pulls your skin off it's so strong okay guys what do you think so far you know what you get
your hands dirty but hey you know I'm following you hands dirty right okay so I just flop it over
and peel it off flop it back and guys it goes on so easy and fast including filming that was
like 10 minutes so that's one of the benefits of it and no nails I won't be using any nails
and it just goes on just like that now when you get on the drip edge part it is so sticky that
if it ripples up on the end there a bit when you flop it over I better get to it fast because you
know it is so sticky that backside you would not believe but I do go around like I stay with my
hands and just rub it all nice and flat all the way around now take you take you back when I got
the whole roof done and just show you how nice of a job that does now you can see there is a strip
about this much that doesn't have that granulated kind of asphalt on it and that's the same as what
you have on the back of your shingles that plastic strip and when the Sun hits it for any length of
time it bursts through and the two rubbers touch each other and just bond and I've tried lifting
it up up at the camp you know and I tell you what it's not moving a bit and I get some wind storms
up there like you wouldn't believe so I'll finish up the roof I'll bring it back and I'll show you
what it looks like well she's all done guys I'll just show you the setup I use for getting up on
my roof I just stick a 4x4 up there a couple of clamps ladders not gonna slide off get up
and down easily okay so let's go up the ladder here and let's take a look at this roof she's
all done guys okay there we are now it's gonna saddle it's gonna take a little while now as you
can see I've got these these roofing screws and they go right into the drip edge every 16 inches
all the way around and there she is guys just as simple as that and I think it worked out great I
just want to show you advantage of using this system if you don't have all kinds of roofing
nails you know if you were to use shingles and shingles aren't the best for a low pitch roof
like this you can get some low pitch shingles but yeah there's nothing inside here no holes going
through the deck anything like that and that's another big advantage well I hope you like that
that is as far as I'm concerned an experiment I can't recommend that type of roofing for anybody
for me yeah it's just an experiment that I've been doing myself so far it's worked out good
and these are the screws I'm using here and guys there they're going and they got a like a rubber
washer on the inside there and they're going right into the drip edge so yeah it's holding on there
big time just in case you get like a big tornado or something and you just drive them in with a
little bit and that's about it so all I did to cut this roofing material and it's so easy to cut like
it's I would say it's about about an eighth of an inch thick exacto knife and that's it that's all
used to fit it with and I just got one of these tea squares line up a t-square and that's it and
you're done so the whole roof cost me 80 bucks including the screws where can you do a roof
for 80 bucks thanks for joining me here today I hope you like just a little bit of a project
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