Approximately 140 of these nails make a pound so you need about 2 1 4 pounds of them to install a square of.
Number of roofing nails per pound.
Count 3 43311 1 2 x 0 131182 6d21531 1 4871 1 2 x 0 148141 8d2 1 2901 1 2722 1 2 x 0 162 63 16d3451 3 461 20d3 1 2282 58.
Wood shingles 2 nails per shingle osb plywood 72 nails per sheet roof material nail length pounds per square coils per square.
Hdg nails have slightly less nails per pound due to galvanizing.
Note counts are approximate and will depend on gauge of shank of each nail.
Moreover they are hot galvanized to help them withstand the rain and sun on the roof.
Nails screws are sold by weight not quantity usually in 1 pound and 5 pound boxes.
In roofing it is the weight of the roofing in pounds per 100 square feet of coverage.
Keep in mind that there are 280 common nails in a pound and 1400 nails per 5 lb.
A pound of roofing nails is roughly 180 nails.
How many nails per square asphalt roofing.
At that time it may have referred to the cost of the nails but now it refers only to the length of the nail which is repeated on the label in this case as 3 1 4.