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Roofing, Ask Danny Published 12/12/2007 by Danny Lipford
I just bought a house with a roof section that has a 1 to 2 inch pitch, should I use rubber roofing or are shingles acceptable? Thank you for your time, Mike
Mike,
The usual slope for asphalt shingles is a 4” or greater rise for every horizontal foot of run. A 3” per foot slope is considered low, but may be acceptable if a double layer of felt is used. Some building codes allow as low as a 2” slope with asphalt shingles if additional steps are taken. For anything less than that, you should use a roofing material specifically made for low slope roofs.
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February 17th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hi, enjoy your show every Sunday morning. I have a doublewide mobile home and the front of the cabinets are made of compressed cardboard with contact type paper over it, they are in bad shape and I can’t replace them, I would like to paint them but what would I do to prep them and what kind of paint would I use? Thanks for your interest Lucy