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Installing Cedar Shingles
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" That's what the most complicated places the shingles and -- and it got there. -- white cedar shingles on the sidewalk coming in contact with your asphalt roofing shingles and it. Well split three could have -- right yes it is so what have we done here to prevent leaks what was done here it's. It as we -- truth and the the carnage here. We put a layer of shingles yet and we put me out of course of step flashing go over their shingles as little aluminum sheeting -- justice folded. An attached always over the asphalt shingle right that's correct if any water -- was still personal it's given me. The come down over the step flashing onto the shingle when made out yeah if you don't want over the back part of the tab and then the next shingle covered. Correct and then which you get your house wrap by and tell us what -- what you were doing you know already sidewall. Then that would just bring in a course right around try to work to the tops and bottoms of the windows. And just thing of course is right around so we knew at some level looks nice and clean you've got through reference lines on the corner post right there. All the way up and you just take a level and put a line and -- the Greta let's watch they'll -- before you get started though this is such indeed the conventions you yet here. Just take a little piece of wood and -- plan to create your own little. Bracket here to hold extra -- just which job a little bit easy they have everything on the ready for idea that's good luck with that flat. -- OK so that's that's just fit the first case it's cut away excess and -- She gets up I used to keeping shingles white -- a little bit farther spaced apart from each other. No well in this area we have such as degree of whether that any -- they finish shrink especially white cedar shingles -- Red -- is don't shrink as much. Beautiful weather purposes SOC to shrink a lot more OK so that you put real -- After let's quickly the second and vote and he went."
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" Not give an explanation that would force. That's looking real good run. You want to show us exactly how you can figure out the angle that you have to cut that first shingle says that it comes under the roof just shut up. Sometimes we nor the pitch of the roof so exhorted -- pitch yeah but it's notably stories just put a shingle up like that. That level course in addition go along the pitch of the roof if as low -- Who had cut their mutual sort of wanted to. Because of parallel you're gonna just gonna get the right angle onto the shingle correct but you know that this the twelfth the truth so. We can go and kind of at a 45 degree angle exactly OK. So Ron is there any rule of thumb about overlapping the -- goes where the nails are aware of seams are always general rule reflect quite the way you at least half an inch with many joins -- Just continue of course is as little longer seemed. Single -- moved. Of course you never want to have to joints don't line up one on top of the other does -- have a weathered it and especially wind driven rain here on the island."