How to Install Starter Shingles 

First time shingling...this series extremely helpful. You explained how to and why without talking down to us, thank you!

Full Tar Adhesion sounds like a metal band. Great video!👍🏼

I'm 60 years old and looking to re-shingle my farm house to save on labout costs. Never don it before. This video was awesome! I don't think there's anything 'average' about your quality of work. Well done!

Nice video! I have roofed my share of farm buildings but it's infrequent and I tend to forget how to roof in the in-between times. This was a great refresher! Thanks for putting this out there!

Great video series! I couldn’t have reroofed my old shed by myself without this awesome video series with so many detailed tips.

Thanks again Dylan. This video and your "How to properly start shingle courses" helped me today with our new garden shed

I just noticed he gave us the bird at 2:15. I'm just starting this part on my shed. Very good video.

Good vid. Very well explained. And you explained why you DONT do things. Such as not lining up the shingle and starter lines.

You really nailed this tutorial! I do a couple of small roof repairs a year. Laying the tar strips together makes total sense, something I wouldn't have thought of. Thanks! 👍🏻

You have the best videos! You tell and show without all the extra talk some youtubers do. Thanks

The best way to start the starter shingles along the corners at the rake and eave is to 45 degree cut both starter strips. Then they both are flush with each other. There both flat on the roof and the tar strip will contact itself to both shingles firmly.

You cover all the basics. Glad to see you know your stuff.

Dylan, Thank you for making these videos. Extremely helpful for a novice like me.

i like how you point out some of the common mistakes like joints lining up and the leaks that can cause along with nail spacing. a screwed up my first room simply because i didn't know nails should be 4-5" from a joint and really no less than 3. water creeps towards the nails when they are right next to joint lines and 5 years later you have the drips and nails that look like they were submerged in salt water

This video was extremely informative and spot on. Keep it up with the content!

Thanks for the video. I have to put a roof on my shed tomorrow and this helps a lot. Little nervous about getting on the roof though.

I’m not a professional roofer by any means but I’ve never put my starter upside down. This is an awesome video

@youraverageroofer great video very helpful, the only tip i have for improvement is on your starter strips on the corners put the bottom starter then gable one over the top so just flipped from how you did it. Water runs downhill. Really great video though!

Thanks for this series I'm using your videos to do shingles on my shed for the first time ever

This was nicely done. Good production values. Clear, unhurried audio.

On the Gable end the starter strip should probably be on Top of the lower one because of the path of water

I'm not in to hand nailing, but it's very satisfying watching and hearing this guy do it.

Very easy to follow your instructions. Great job.

This guy seems like the best roofer

You are an above average roofer. You have your own RU-vid channel!! Don't sell yourself short.

Wow, what a fantastic tutorial on how to install starter shingles! 🏠👏 I've been wanting to tackle this project myself, and your video made it look so easy and straightforward. Your step-by-step instructions were clear and concise, and the visual demonstration really helped me understand the process better.

You guys are lucky , in central FL we need to nail dripedge every 4 inches and put tar on it all around , difference is we don't put starter going up, it's way faster that way

Hey just wanted to take a moment and thank you for the instructional videos you make because they have been a big help to me, you are my go to. Thanks again. Jim P

I love the ringing sound his hammer makes when he strikes the nails... I dont know why, but it it's satisfying to my ear holes.

I found your video to be on point and precise. You will laugh, but I watched your videos prior to roofing a dog house. If I am going to do something, I like to do it right, even on a dog house.

You are very professional with your attention to detail.

Thank for the detail information, great video explaining the methods used and why.

Thank you Dylan you're a great roofing instructor for the DYI!

Needed a refresher since i haven't done roofing since AIT very informative and easy enough for a soldier to get

Extremely useful video and strait to the point . Thanks !

Love your camera angles and instruction. Keep up the good work brother 😊

great video. thank you for taking the time to help the common person to try to do it yourself.

You are an excellent teacher.

thanks so much for video. branch just fell through my roof. so i have lots of work ahead of me. now to learn how to do the sheathing.

I’m trying to roof my little tiny chicken coop with remnant shingles from friends. Tried to start today after doing tar paper and the drip edge. Its not pretty but... I’m learning. I tried starting the shingles today and realized I just be missing something and it was the starting shingles. Lol. Your videos are super helpful. Thanks. You also just taught me how important the tar strips are. I’ll send a photo if it works out. Thanks again.

Your vids are so much more professional than the bdr

Look at all the great comments this is getting! Keep it up. I am looking for all the things I can do wrong now. I know there are tricks and tips that people get from experience. Looking under rocks for them.

I staple them in with my hammer tacker saves nails. Quicker application and the nails from the shingles fasten them down. No dragging the air hose around. Thanx 4 your video.

Very, very helpful. Thx for posting this. Now I know what my roofer did wrong.

For a novice homeowner learning, this was is what I needed. I didn't like the cutting of shingles on the roof. In regards to the starter strips in the corners, how about cutting them at a 45 so you get less of a bump on the ends? Thanks for the video, no BS, well done.

Getting ready to do roofing on my shed and your video was very helpful! I Hulk smashed that like button!

Last time I shingled a roof,we just rotated the shingle 180°, presto! There's your starter strip! Of course you offset the first row so the seams doesn't line up. Never heard of a actual "starter strip" before!😁👍🇨🇦

Very helpful! Starting a small roof soon and this was much needed! Thanks!

Yes ! Simple and practical

Great video. Only thing I would do different is I would put the eave starter on first then overlap the rake starter. Backward laps erk me lol. Outside of that your procedure is legit. I know it's the same either way, as long as you do like you said and make sure to have the starter glue meet on the rake and eave.

So many videos show the starter strip as a shingle rotated 180 degrees. This puts the adhesive tab five inches away from the bottom of the first row, increasing the chance of wind lift. Cut the tabs off if using a regular shingle as a starter and install with the adhesive at the roof edge. This video clearly shows the correct way a starter strip has the adhesive at bottom of the first row.

Thank you for your experience and knowledge

I've never roofed anything but shouldn't you run your razor blade somewhere besides on top of the felt paper ? ? ?

THANKS ,BUDDY ....GOOD INFORMATION !!!!!

Thanks for your videos man. There are helping me… A LOT!!

Thanks for this bud, I’m helping a friend roof a small shed tomorrow and I couldn’t remember if you put the nails in tar strip or not.

Just what I needed today.

Good job man, I watched your shingle video too, very good as well I will be doing this tomorrow morning so I really appreciate this clear video.

This is really helpful man, thanks!

Gracias from Texas

Great video, very informative!

Very good video I'm a framer and I want to learn how to roof👍👍👍👍

Very very good. Thank you. I will do as I see.

Shouldn't the gable starter overlap the eve starter?

Thanks a mill bro great video I did it on my kids playhouse

Great teacher !

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT AWESOME!

Yes very helpful thank you. Can you or have you made a episode with shingling in valleys? Thanks again time to smash the like button

Why did you take 10 to 12 inches off the starter strip? Didnt the seal go all the way to then end on that one? Excellent content, brother! I wish I had found this channel years ago.

Wouldn't it make more sense to reverse the lap at 4:56? Seems like it would be better for water run-off.

Thanks for the videos! Great help.

Thnx man great vid.

Keep up the great work

nice video, very well explained and why!

Amazing tutorial man! Keep up the good work!

Great Videos Thank you so much now am like a pro

These are some really great points!

Doesnt the overlap leave a gap and prevent the shingle fro sticking to the tar strip? How would you get them flish with each other?

Just slap it on as fast as humanly possible, get paid. Warranty void first rain fall. Bigtiiiiime!

Thank you so much! I purchased the started shingles and thank to you I feel confident that I can shingle my gazebo. Any additional advice for an octagonal shape roof? 🙂

As you work up the gable end, is it good to overlap the starters on the way up?

Great video. Thank you!

Thanks for advice. Finished product. Came out great. I tried to add a photo . Didn’t work. Thanks

It may of shown on the video but do you go over the peak as well with the starter? Thanks for the videos

Using 3 tab shingles for starter also work just fine. In your case IKO is Marathon if memory serves me right.

Good job Dilly 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

Thank you, very helpful!

if one of those sides are against a wall, do I still want to do starter shingles the same way?

Seems to me if you did your first eve starter strip as suggested .... that if something happened somewhere between the eve and peak ... water would run down and have a path to "UNDER" the shingle? NO? Why not run the eve piece first and the gable piece on top?

Thank you!

Great video My question do I have to put starter shingles up the gable What is the reason to put starters up gable lm replacing the sheeting and shingles

Thanks for the knowledge just livein it up a bit bud, you sound like a robot.

Thanks brother

Hello, when adding another starter shingle. Do they overlap or go up against one another?

I have a 20 ft outbuilding shed. I bought the gaf at 39 3/8 inches. They say full first run. Then less 6, 11, and 17. The first starter row is 3-1/4 inches short. It hardly makes sense to spice in every 5 th row with a 3-1/4 inch piece does it. You have good videos. Watched several of them. Please advise.

That was a great video!

I've always wondered why not put tar strip facing down?

Would suggest using a self adherring waterproofing membrane on the eaves and gables. They should extend the the starting edge of the drip edge in case you are in snow country and have gutters. The underlayment should lap the drip edge in either case to prevent water from running back and soaking your deck.

Not to ask a dumb question but you started on the side first with the starter shingle but watching GAF starter shingle from them directly they start at the bottom of the roof, and then put the starter shingle OVER and on the sides... I would think starting on the side first then putting the bottom ontop would be a potential for water to sit if there was any penetration?

why do you need starters on the gable/rake? why not just on the eaves? i dont get it please please help