How To Cover Your Roof With A Tarp

When tarping after a storm take photos of all the damaged areas before you begin both inside and outside for insurance purposes.

How to cover your roof with a tarp.

The utarpit tarp is a self adhesive water mitigation product. It can easily be installed by a single person providing consumers with a quick easy and effective solution in the installation of a tarp. If you know you have a weak spot in your roof you can use these same techniques to tarp before a storm. Partially unroll your tarp to cover the damaged area from the roof s eaves to peak.

Most tarps cover the majority of a roof but to be safe measure the size of the damage and make sure your purchased tarp will cover the damaged area. If required cut plywood as needed cover up any existing penetrations with plywood secure the perimeter with screws every 6 to 12 into the roof sheathing below preferably into trusses unroll the full tarp make sure that the length extends 1 past the edge of the roof on the damaged side. That being said if the damage to your roof was caused by some sort of natural. The following techniques can be used to tarp a roof after a storm.

Make sure to cover the roof s ridge line first. This is so the roof will deflect water either on one side or the other. If you don t cover the ridge line the tarp won t be effective at keeping out water. Overlap the ridge line with the tarp by about 2 feet.

There should be an additional 4 feet of tarp on every side. Create an anchor board by rolling the tarp s peak end with a 2 x 4 inch board and nailing the tarp to your board with your 3 inch nails.