Nailing On Shingles

To give our family treehouse that rustic "woodsey" look we picked wooden shingles for the roof. The only problem being, Royce is still a little leary of heights. So that leaves me to get on top of things.

I nailed the shingles on the very top of the roof while he nailed them on the lower front roof.

It's like putting a puzzle together. No two shingles are alike. Some are narrow, some are wide, and some are inbetween. The idea is to overlap the point where the two shingles meet when you put on each layer of shingles. That way the rain doesn't run down through the cracks onto the felt and start leaking into the house. Sounds easy enough until you start trying to solve the puzzle.

It's really going to be a challenge when we have to cut the shingles to fit the dormer. I'll worry about that later. Today it's just nailing as many in place as we can before the cutting starts.

I found out the hard way that they have splinters. And we noticed that when the pine needles fall they like to stick to the rough surface. That may be a problem keeping them from piling up on the roof. I hate to think that we would have to get up there and sweep them off all the time. We got quite a few done today and I think these shingles will look great.