- Today on The Metal Roofing Channel,
we are learning how to install
stamped metal products like metal shingles.
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- What's up, guys?
Welcome to The Metal Roofing Channel,
I'm Thad Barnette from Sheffield Metals,
welcome back to our stamped metal roofing series.
Today we gotta great topic,
learning how to install a metal shingle type product,
and I've got Mark from Isiah Industries,
technical support director,
Mark, thanks so much for being here.
- Yeah, good to be with you.
This is our rustic panel, it's an aluminum panel
made out of .019 aluminum,
just a good product that should
last a lifetime on your roof.
Matter of fact, this is the product I put on my own home.
It's a two foot wide exposure, one foot high.
You'll see that it has two side locks,
one's obviously underturned, one's upturned.
You can see it has a continuous fold underneath
to hook into the shingle below it.
It's going to interlock as such.
And then on the sides, like that.
- So what's the minimum slope
that these products can go over?
- Sure, this product can be installed
all the way down to 3/12, on a 3/12 pitch.
- Okay.
- If you get to the point where
the roof is no longer walkable,
one option that we do offer that
very much enhances the walkability
for the installers and for anyone
who might get up to service something on the roof
at a later time, are foam backers.
These are injection molded and
conform to the back of the panel
and one thing I like to do when I teach installation
courses here is I just put this down on the cement floor
and I can dance on this and I can dance on it all day long
and nothing happens to the shingle.
So those are really a benefit for the installers.
- So tell me about when you're looking to start installation
is the roof, do you have these flashings
started on the roof before panels begin being laid?
- Yeah so there's a definite sequence,
obviously you're going to put your
underlayment down first, one thing that we really like to
emphasize is that the underlayment is going to be wrapped
over all perimeter edges of the roof at least one inch.
Now obviously, you don't want it to come down too far
so that it doesn't hang out the starter,
but we do want it to come over the edge
and not be cut off at the edge.
Then next, we're going to put down our starter strip
which has a cleat and a drip leg,
then I'm going to progress to putting down my gable channel.
This particular gable channel is what we call
a full over gable channel
and what you're gong to do with the shingle
is you're going to probably take a pair of flanges
like these and you're going to open up this side lock
so that it's flat.
And then you're going to measure in two and a half inches
and two and a half inches here too and then come back
an inch and a half so you're gonna get a taper here.
Gonna do a 90 degree bend, that bend obviously
is perpendicular to the butt of the shingle,
that is going to fit down into
this channel here in the gable channel.
This is a very nice look, I love the look
of being able to stand back on the ground
and seeing the profile of the shingle
as it goes up the gable to the peak
I think it's a very attractive feature of the product.
- This gable trim and starter here
is attached with roofing nails?
- Yes, yes, aluminum ring shank nails
or you could use stainless steel fasteners
every foot along the eave.
- Okay, I see small clips here.
- Yes and most of our trim pieces
are gonna be attached with clips
and those will be every one foot on center.
All of our products have a stagger pattern to them,
the first shingle here, you can see that
the shingle is 24 inches wide from
the side lock here.
When I open up that flange,
I'm gonna gain about an extra inch.
The stagger pattern for rustic is
full, half, three quarter, one quarter, repeat
so it's a four course repeat.
One of the things I like to tell the fellas
who come in here for installation training
is that you can have a guy on the ground
who has all of your starter pieces
bent and ready to go before you ever get up on the roof.
If you know that this is a 20-foot gable
and you've got a four course repeat,
he can simply make five sets of the stagger pattern.
The first shingle, which is going to be
considered a full shingle,
is going to come over 22 and a half.
Then I'm going to go to my half shingle
which is 12 inches less which will be 10 and a half.
Three quarters is going to be 16 and a half
and then the last shingle is going to be
4 and a half, which is one quarter.
Notice that that falls very nicely
and that I don't have to contend
with any of my rain gutters.
- Right.
- So, like the 16 and a half,
I have to add two and a half inches for this fold over,
but it falls right between the two gutters
which is very, very convenient.
So then I'm going to take this
and I'm just going to come in here
to where the flange is on the water return channel,
I'll cut that up at a little angle there,
and then I'm gonna fold this under.
I used to cut it but now I fold it under
I think it just makes for a more finished edge there,
you're gonna see that this then
goes down into the channel and
this gets up like that.
This would represent my second course.
My third course is going to be approximately like this.
And then the final course, the fourth course,
will be like this and then the whole pattern
is going to repeat.
- Yup.
So you wrote the manual for these products,
is that correct?
- That's correct.
- So tell me a little bit about it
and tell me a little bit about your training.
- Sure, our installation training
usually is for a full day.
We offer it here at our training facility
there's no cost to those who want to come
other than having to cover their own
transportation and lodging.
But we used to spend a whole day
from 8:30 in the morning till almost 5 in the afternoon
and cover all the details on this training deck
which is, you know, pretty much has every feature
that you're normally going to run into on a job.
Along with doing the training,
we give a installation instruction guide.
As Thad mentioned, I put this together
just a couple of years ago, it's 88 pages long
and it has color photos with nice arrows
and text and all of that kind of thing.
- And in addition you have over three hours
of video content that covers this as well
is that correct?
- That's correct, it's gonna be a different product
than this, it's gonna be our KasselWood steel shingle
and we have, as Thad mentioned,
three hours of video broken down into 25 segments,
so not too long, usually about five, six minutes long.
So if you have a particular question about,
"okay how do I do the apron flashing on the chimney?"
you can go to those videos and have a five minute segment
that will show you how to do that
as I actually walk through the steps.
- Mark, thank you so much for
taking me through the process today,
I've really learned a lot about how to install
metal shingles and metal type products
so thank you very much, really appreciate it.
- Oh absolutely, it was a pleasure
I enjoy showing our products.
- Yeah, and absolutely if you wanna see Mark
talk more about their products,
like you said the KasselWood demonstration,
over three hours of video content,
put together all the manuals for these products,
so really a lot of knowledge and information there.
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And as always, I'm Thad Barnette,
we'll catch you next time.
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