I picked up a job siding a small barn with a gambrel roof . The owner asked me if I could roof it too. I said I could. However, I am not sure of the best way to make the transition from the lower steep pitch of the gambrel to the upper low angle pitch. I’ll be using timberline composite shingles. What is the best way to do this? Do I need to flash the pitch break? Any input would be great.
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Mike Smith has posted photos in answer to this before showing how he likes to use a 1x4 to trin and restart a new roof.
I don't care for doing it that bold. I roll the top of first steep side up onto the top roof, stop and run a course of cedar shingles with an inch of overhang, then set eave edge over the cedars, and start again with new comnposite roof shingles on up. This gives me a shadow line without the bulk of the wood trimmer.
I'd have to look deep for photos though
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Thank you for your input
Boss did the hard work.
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ganjo.. thanks to boss for reposting those 2 examples
here's another gambrel we finished this Spring..
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Here's the one Piffin mentioned that i started about the "Faux Midwestern Barn":
http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=22877.1&maxT=16
We just bent the shingles over the edge and sealed the tabs down with roofing cement.
Here's the posts by Mike Smith with a different technique:
http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=23032.1&search=y
I like his way MUCH better.
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