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Engineered Wood for the Home's Exterior Trim

Bob meets with Dave Probst of Louisiana Pacific to learn about LP's Smart System Products being used as exterior trim.
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Engineered Wood for the Home's Exterior Trim

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" OK we're looking MB OSB oriented strand board sheeting on the roof but right now we're getting together with Dave -- from Louisiana-Pacific who's gonna tell us a little bit about the engineered wood products that are being used for the trim right yes thank you Bob what this is that this is the top part of the belly of smart system product what we we're we're looking -- the smart Spacepak. What will be installing up innocent mark -- it is an architectural term for the piece of time that used to trim the then the rafter ends throughout the end of the roof has a nice finished -- and traditionally just do that with pine but now this is a product that's really -- When he first century right right this is an engineered product obviously what we've done is we've. This is -- that treated engineered woods of the substrate has been treated with that smart card. Process with what that does that that integrate that thing borates. And cities -- wafers of Aspen making the substrate then what -- zero -- that the substrate is more like what we're looking at up here. As opposed to something like a chip board that made out of saga like that actually we use a little bit different binder roommate finder which is that much more strong adhesive. What's. Complements the product. What we've also done is we get and it -- resin saturated paper overlay Bob and so is that how you get this texture so it looks almost like whether I would. You see that it's a beautifully and possible appearance and it it's primed and and you see these cedar texture and it makes for a very very Hannibal surface adapt -- and you can tell that from listening to Amoco's in the area right. So on the bottom of the has put. Ordinarily -- all of them Blanchard. You're using a similar product here in the open soffit well we've done this executive and a sixteen provide or by eight. Mark -- with I think technology. The same smart card treatment process which would provide port and type pong ball and what resist against what bargains. So that this also as the paper overlay which gives it that very capable surface those who engineered product that. It's done quite well yeah and then what they've got that nailed in waves of then we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and install it for companies weren't -- corporate accent it looks like it's gonna create one by six. The ceramic based coming up by a quarter and a work order I'm three inch to twelve it and -- have old bolt lock to prevent Pakistan people's. Thanks Dave to a price indices finished later this is the the next piece that goes up here which as you say is is that -- tram and of course it's it comes pre."

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