How To Cut Roofing Felt

Using a straight blade and a hooked blade.

How to cut roofing felt.

Step by step guide on how to apply bituminous roofing felt to your shed roof. How to cut asphalt roof shingles this method focuses on cutting asphalt shingles with a utility knife. Next continue to lay your felt in strips moving up your roof making sure it lays flat. Continue rolling out the felt until you reach the roof hip on the other end.

Peel off the freezer paper piece. If the roof felt tears cut a piece large enough to cover the tear with lots of overlap slip the top under the next lap. To lay your felt over obstacles like vent pipes cut a slit in the felt and place the slit over the pipe. If you reach the end of your roof and have extra roofing felt use a utility knife to carefully cut the felt to the edge of your roof.

Cut the felt in a straight line so that the bottom edge of the felt extends 8 inches past the roof hip. Includes useful advice on the best materials to use together with information. I place a piece of cotton fabric over my felt and freezer paper when i iron to make sure i don t damage the felt with the heat of the iron. Cut out a big square rectangle shape around the pattern piece and iron it onto the felt.

Cut the piece out on the tracing line. Move the roll of felt which you ve now severed from the strip on the roof up and out of your way.