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jeff king
03-13-2008, 01:54 PM
one side of the roof is 8/12 and the other side is 10/12. Using ELK(no tabs) shingles. Weaving valley.How many courses up do i go before i double row to keep the parting line in the center of valley?And which pitch or side of roof should i start the first shingle? In otherwords which pitch should be on the bottom of weave? thanks, any help would be fine
Scott Patterson
03-13-2008, 02:29 PM
one side of the roof is 8/12 and the other side is 10/12. Using ELK(no tabs) shingles. Weaving valley.How many courses up do i go before i double row to keep the parting line in the center of valley?And which pitch or side of roof should i start the first shingle? In otherwords which pitch should be on the bottom of weave? thanks, any help would be fine

Hi Jeff, you might want to contact ELK customer service. Depending on which style you have they might not recommend a woven valley. I bet that they can shoot you the instructions via email. Weaving a valley is an art and if done wrong it will leak.
jeff king
03-14-2008, 04:53 AM
http://www.elkcorp.com/application_instructions/MyerstownSpecSht.pdf
Yes you can weave elk.
jeff king
03-14-2008, 05:44 PM
Well?
Jerry Peck
03-14-2008, 07:29 PM
Well?

I'm surprised they did not fall off the roof being that drunk.
jeff king
03-16-2008, 10:59 AM
Well It's been a year know , no leaks .
Richard Rushing
03-16-2008, 09:00 PM
To answer, the higher or steeper slope should be overlapping the bottom.

JP-- that was a great reply!!
LMAO
jeff king
03-17-2008, 12:33 AM
No help whatsoever, why are you on here?
jeff king
03-17-2008, 12:38 AM
Thank you Scott your advice was very helpful, could'nt have done it without it.
Jerry Peck
03-17-2008, 05:22 AM
No help whatsoever, why are you on here?


Let's see ... this is coming from someone with 6 posts - all of which are on this one thread ...
jeff king
03-17-2008, 07:27 AM
Are you a monday morning armchair quarterback? You sure act like one.
Scott Patterson
03-17-2008, 07:29 AM
Thank you Scott your advice was very helpful, could'nt have done it without it.

Glad to have helped. But I must agree with Jerry & Richard, the valley is not woven correctly from what I can tell in the pictures. A while back somebody posted a picture of a correctly woven valley, it would be great to find that picture and look at the difference in it and yours.

With that heavy of a shingle it might have been better to have gone with a cut valley. Weaving dimensional shingles like you have is very difficult.
Scott Patterson
03-17-2008, 07:36 AM
I found the picture of the valley. It is from Roger Robinson's company in CA, Star Inspections. Now this is a 3 tab shingle but the valley part should look the same.
Jerry Peck
03-17-2008, 07:49 AM
Are you a monday morning armchair quarterback? You sure act like one.


Nope.

You get to play in the big game.

I only get to come in and show you where you are wrong ... in front of the judge.

If you come to learn, or help teach, do so. If you come to criticize ... we can all play that game together, and you will lose.

Besides, now that you are playing 'that' game ... it is not "Weaved valley", it is "woven valley".

And "monday" is "Monday".
Steve Duchene
03-17-2008, 06:18 PM
Woven valley = Sure Leak. Bad choice in snow country for sure, and I believe equally bad everywhere.

Having done roofing for 35 Years, I have never found one that I removed for reroofing that had not leaked.

Bad choice, bad choice, bad choice.
Mike Schulz
03-24-2008, 01:32 PM
When you have two diffrent pitches always start with the low pitch side first. When the shingles are woven they will cross each other in the center of the valley. The "cross" or where they overlap and kind of looks like a "X" will drift out of the center of the valley after a few courses and then you have to double the low side before bringing the high side over to bring that back to center.