Smart Start® Shingle Accessory

First Row of Shingles

The first row of shingles fortifies the rest. Made with NEX® Polymer Modified Asphalt and high-grade, rubberized adhesive for exceptional seal-down, Smart Start® starter shingles provide increased wind protection at the eave and rake edges of the roof.

Starter Shingles

A new roof requires more than just shingles. It’s a cohesive, coordinated system of 5 parts: 1) ice & water barrier, 2) underlayment, 3) starter shingles, 4) field (roofing) shingles, and 5) hip & ridge shingles.

Starter shingles are larger and designed to extend up beyond the fastening point of the first course of shingles to fortify these shingles most prone to wind uplift, shingle blow-off, and moisture migration.

Malarkey’s starter shingle is Smart Start®.