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Installing New Wood Shingle Siding
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" This this is such a complicated sidewall job and Greg our architect has gone through the entire house off for elevations. And on the computer he's cross hatched every surface that he needs to be re shingle and here on the south side it's all of it except for the carrier with a three windows are here on the left --"
" Quite a bit like so much. -- We're roofing the house will be doing a lot of flashing repairs and changes to the flashing and you can't do that without actually getting rid of the that's exactly right yes yes. So what kind of shingles are we using insist on red cedars just. That didn't everybody. Is about fast ticking yet. And that's important I suppose because that's the fact is that this is a very labor intensive job replacing all of these shingles. Even though we're nailing with the power nailer. And then with the pontiff at the -- detail -- house and I could set itself labor intensive and makes no sense. He used in Geneva convention and unit yeah now what what about the nailing itself isn't it better when your hand nailing all of us. Not with these pneumatic nailers that now we can you stainless steel so these stainless steel annular. Ring nails right that's correct yeah. And a staff historian for the -- this shingle yeah it's that same stale. Yeah because he's you know you can get a thirty year life out of something like that but it's true that we have detail here like the corners which are not only laced but -- where our hands out right which is a difficult details to accomplish where we're -- see -- also got an existing situation right around the -- get a Chris has been sighted in on right now."
" Now you haven't done any of the removal here yet do you start at the bottom or at the top. Now we started to bottom Bob what happens it's -- if you start at the top. And you tried -- a shingle up -- I -- is one shingle. If you start at the bottom you loosen the bottom one and then -- consecutively. Bring the shingles up with a shortened -- arm behind it to quicker job that way right I see you've got two or three different types of bars here which is the best tool well we start with a smart bar to get in underneath here. So that we cannot. It worked out and I get into the -- and a little bit larger bar. So that you get back away from work a little while leveraging dump it into the and it's one of flying yet. And is this a tool that really help to get it underneath and pull the nail right Jesse slate roofers used it. Right what we do that is if were patching and we'll want to remove one -- shingles without damaging everything we drive them up underneath. And hooked -- Allen and try to tack down Poland now without damaging that -- just give you a hand. The biggest who want to be careful at the bottom not to damage whatsoever underneath -- this flair right right we already here's what for you okay. I don't think. Original hundred year old shingles. People. -- a couple of the areas of product. What thing that I'm looking at right here is we've got creates so. These were originally just in Korea so and I conservatives. And then at some later point time they were -- stained older. To give it that reddish a look right and in the last. Coat of -- staying with this -- correct but it I'd say they're almost a hundred you don't really are riddled gathered at a very different."
" Here we're looking at the original sheathing of the house which is almost a century old. And it's tongued and grooved dressed pine that really tell you something. And originally it was covered with this resin paper which helped but to prevent moisture infiltration and stop now we use -- house wrap product. Which target and with here. Funneled and kept -- which allows moisture that's inside the house to. Get out but keeps cold drafts from penetrating."
" Now in order to creative flair down here at the bottom we battered brown. We've built -- a little bit with a tapered piece that was to be a couple of inches out and there's another one right here now right way to get started on the corner would definitely have noticed that on the outside on it here because that -- in the shingles together. No it that's not a multi site status yes and then worth. The inside -- placing them you're not really my hearing them you just. Joining them your dividing them but in making sure that the scenes of stack -- a -- and there's no corner board right. Now Chris what are you doing over here quorum her on as a -- She put my first course you can't go on them now ultimately end up with two courses of shingle on the bottom side for weather proofing purposes. On just a plumbing not -- pre established. Market again. Accident. And I felt more like that's going to return around the corner so that we can. He's going from. Is that. OK so we're hand nailing all of the shingles. The corner that you do you have to also doubled them up. Definite double top so that we created residential and brought them down about creates an edge that. All the while the water Toronto off the bottom agents and back but first we have to take the ledger board and -- correct."
" OK so this is hand -- the truest sense of the word and that each shingle has to be. Shaped. Just roughing it out right now with the utility knife. -- has to be shaped to take that Blair. Fortunately only do that for the first. Several courses and that you're going straight up the wall and now to. Attach it. We have to trim that down a little bit yeah. With -- little bit more. Influence your mind. Yet has the final step is to take your little plane could block and -- up. Now you do the same thing on the opposite side right correct. Laid out a shingle on top here that we will down market up the back -- up the cut at just like it is it."