Roofing Nails Or Staples

Roll out about 10 feet of felt and fasten with staples or roofing nails with plastic washer heads.

Roofing nails or staples.

3 degree electro galvanized steel roofing nails 5 lb pack for applying roofing asphalt shingles insulation board and felt to wood substrates. Fasteners should be driven straight and flush with the shingle surface figure 2 10 above courtesy of steven bliss best practices guide to residential construction. In the past when it came to the debate of roofing nails versus staples the industry was split down the middle. Make no mistake we are in business to make money.

Put fasteners at least every 8 inches. In some areas of the country building codes do not allow roofing staples for roof installation for these reasons. Premium nails collated nails staples in stainless steel copper and more for a variety of applications including roofing siding and decking free shipping shop through our wide selection of nuts and bolts. After all it s no surprise roofers loved staples for attaching shingles to roofing.

Ul which historically used staples for wind speed testing. Fastenstrong galvanized staples are made for secure. Add to cart add to. Hodges roofing only uses nails.

18 ga x 1 4 in. Hand naming will not do it. We are talking nails hand or gun. We offer two way reversible lock nuts well nuts rawlnuts and wing nuts at price.

The nails must be long enough to penetrate at least 3 4 into wood decks or just through plywood or osb decks. Another point is roofing nails do not have the barbs. Staples are the method used years ago that gave machine roofing a bad name. Use the grip rite 11 x 1 1 4 in.

Galvanized roofing nails 7 200 pc. Use a construction stapler or a hammer. Also a roofing nail head is approximately 1 4 inch in diameter. Fastenstrong galvanized staples are made for secure fastening show more.

Does underwriters laboratories ul recognize the use of staples. 3 use the grip rite 11 x 1 1 4 in. Galvanized roofing nails 7 200 pc. Both nails and staples should be long enough to penetrate the roof sheathing by 3 4 inch or penetrate 1 4 inch through the sheathing if it is less than 3 4 inch thick.

Today s roofing nail guns are designed to hold high capacity nail magazines.