How a Shingle Roof System Works: Overlaps, Nails, and Underlayment
Length: 1:25
A close-up explanation of overlapping shingles, concealed nails, sealant, impact-rated shingles, and the layers beneath the roof covering. The shingle shown is a Class 3 impact-rated luxury shingle with copper infused to prevent algae growth, and the video compares it with a regular 30 year shingle and a Class 4.
Transcript
All right guys, I want to explain to y'all how a shingle roof system works. If you look over here, you see one piece of shingle. Well, this shingle is really about this big over here.
You can't see it because it's underneath this area here. So for this shingle, there is a group of nails that go underneath this one, underneath this one, and then you have a strong sealant that's underneath this area over here. So this shingle is being adhered over here, over here and over here.
All right, this is also a luxury shingle, meaning that it's a class three impact-rated shingle. So it can withstand one and three fourths inch hail. And it also has bits of copper capsules that are infused within the shingle, which prevent any type of algae growth and mold growth.
The wind warranty on here is about 130 miles per hour which makes it a great shingle whereas other regular 30 year roof shingles can withstand about 110. Depending on the manufacturers they offer excellent warranties on them as well but it's a very very good roof system it will last you a long time, but you need to know the difference between a regular 30 year, a class three impact, and a class four impact. And it's not just the shingle, it's everything that's underneath as well, such as the synthetic underlayments, the ice and water barriers, the pipe jacks.
There's a lot more that goes into it, all right?