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Exterior Shingles and BrickWalkway

Bob talks with Ryley about shingle exposure, brick surrounds for basement windows, and the design of a brick walkway. Bob also talks with Todd about shingling around windows.
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Exterior Shingles and BrickWalkway

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" O Reilly made a lot of progress here since the last you know we have I like the choice -- cedar -- even though it's it pretty common one if you had gone with something like vinyl that would have been pretty in a -- you know would he get away and and this looks god that. It's not you know I don't Iraq or how you figure how much of the shingle to leave exposed to the way. Generally go up five inches to the weather a lot of times -- guys of those spread -- out of five and a five and water to save time and materials. But in this where do we predicated on that we -- keep it under five inches so. Generally we get -- visit four or five eighths or infrequent as takes a big difference with those well of course is. And this tall building is gonna help. Keep the height of its captain smaller board aesthetic reasons that -- to bring down the height of the building by having all these horizontal lines be closer together it needed that yes that really works doesn't yeah. But let's take a look at some of the other features that are complete like. Now left the ground for the whole house out there president that's yeah that's electrical ground and it's been inspected in that offset the Barry. And we won't back build this until we've had a chance to put some waterproofing on it but let's talk about this detail as you know you could just put in. A corrugated metal area away here's -- she got nice big -- windows right but they arrow -- the number windows in in for what we've done is to take a red nice red brick in and make it -- area way. It works I really bad how does he tied into this prefab foundation that we got by just take a circular saw with a diamond tipped blade on it scored the F foundation wall and then that when he put his lawyer in there and just keep it. It's always -- a key way to lock that -- place to keep it from. Closing in an -- it's a beautiful red brick but -- even think about maybe doing a little like -- white washing it is so that would reflect more light into the into the basement and nice yet. So Bob Morris and and you got well they've got a head start here on the front steps. And how how -- they get put together well he's so try to get supporting deployed in what they're going to do what -- doing now agreement recoba. And it called for. Again actually the end of this platforms who's going to. But I chorus of Bob -- around the outside remedy and then inside it put the block is the will plant -- whole thing right is that the landscape there. And that. In this that this is that radiate straight yeah yeah you'll come out the front door off stepped down one rise -- this platform and into the -- more riser than the walkway. And then up from down commemorated -- yes you'll see a lot of -- but all -- material is concrete block exactly marvelous and say they still working on the drywall on the sidewalk or if they're just finishing up for an the last well now let's take a look okay. I know -- cedar siding and what grade did we use. The great -- it's an extra grade with tells us it's free of knots that has no raised grave on the shingle and it's -- square -- that it. I'm gonna get going inside and meet pat wood -- that this -- the batten right I think we're all right Ryley up CNN that I cut going to come up the circle on up. Great well I want to -- just outside of the job is beautiful it's really looking very neat. Very good. I'm glad you're at this point his. For the do it yourself for this is always the hard part of -- shingling job how do you figure the the angles here on the rake. And I'm not triangular window -- like this -- here underneath the rank has its own part you can cut the shingles up underneath there. When to bring the courts across for the studio window. The -- friend you're they got to be pretty critical they cut up the recording us right here -- the -- this course. It's got one full of shingle that died -- into -- there. And by getting this angle here. You gonna use a bevel square. Very handy tool have got simple tool that will help you get the exact angle read write off but the trend. And then you senate -- wet transfer on the shingle. -- make sure you get your angle going in the right direction. And extend it with a straight edge. And then you just hand cut these things up here on the on the staging all right this trim saw Eric very light. We're for bringing up on the stage when if you're in a typical job you would at a bunch of those at a time right correct good."

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