Never walk on felt that has not been nailed down.
Roofing felt overlap size.
Convert the area from inches to feet prior to purchasing your felt.
In most cases this will leave 400 square feet 37 m 2 of net coverage per 1 roll.
One roll of conventional 15 felt covers 432 square feet 40 1 m 2.
The overlapping felt creates a secondary barrier for moisture and wicks water away from the shingles above and the sheathing below.
Roll out the felt no more than midway perhaps 25 feet or so across the average size roof.
Pick up the roll with both hands.
In steep slope roofs 4 12 and steeper the upper courses of felt underlayment should overlap lower courses by at least 2 inches.
You can see the difference between the underlayment overlapped 19 inches on the roof to the right and overlapped 2 inches on the roof to the left.
The spacing between the nails on the drip edge should be less than 12 inches apart.
Purchase enough felt to cover your roof s area.
The drip edge should extend at least 2 inches on the roof.
Roofing requirements roofing felt is required to overlap 2 inches over the lower felt course.
If there is any wind at all roll out the felt only about 10 feet.
Adjacent pieces of drip edge should overlap at least 2 inches 51 mm.
However you must allow for overlaps on joints.
Therefore a 2 inch overlap provides redundancy at the edges where the barrier is weakest.