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- Thread starter silentwriter180
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I know that looks horrible, but in a year or so, at least up here in New England, those will weather and match perfectly, even sooner if exposed to the salt water on the Cape.
Back in the day, many roofs were shake shingled. Rarely were roofs replaced but shingles were often reworked into the roof resulting in a patchwork of color. The new matched the old soon enough.
rootabaga
Android Expert
Look closer. It’s not the color…
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
This one.. Well care to explain it to me?
BrickHouse
Android Expert
The new shake (shingles) is off set (due to being a slightly different size) and therefore leaving a poor looking job.
The very reason I've turned down jobs in which the client (customer) wants only partial replacement of shake anything.
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
I'm in agreement with the weathering will blend them in, yet even Stevie Wonder could see the difference in the lines .... Looks like the shake is near the same size, the first row was starterd out of phase and the rest had to follow them. Having done remodeling for years, in a past life, I am familiar the problem ....
Good gaks but that is bad for the OCD!
rootabaga
Android Expert
I don’t have OCD…and I think that’s bad for anyone. I can’t even fathom anyone doing something that poorly. I feel sorry for the tree that gave its life so someone could screw up that job so much.
rootabaga
Android Expert
Here's a closer detail. While the new shingles will weather, they will never line up horizontally.
BrickHouse
Android Expert
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
CSS (cedar shake shingle) roofs are outlawed here now.
Inna past life I did air conditioning and heating and have been in many many shake attics. It always amazed me to see all of the spots where sunshine showed through yet they did not really leak when it rained. The shake swells up when wet and shrinks back when dry.
Excellent kindling for a failed gas furnace that catches fire in the middle of the night, which was why they were outlawed !
Inna past life I did air conditioning and heating and have been in many many shake attics. It always amazed me to see all of the spots where sunshine showed through yet they did not really leak when it rained. The shake swells up when wet and shrinks back when dry.
Excellent kindling for a failed gas furnace that catches fire in the middle of the night, which was why they were outlawed !
BrickHouse
Android Expert
Yep
All shake used in my neck 'o the woods has to be treated. Most roofs are composite, tile or vinal now.
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
Looks like the fad here now is the metal roll ridge roofing. West end of the island is still growing and all the new housing has it.
I did some remodling of a place in the refinery part of a town that required me to use only fire retardant lumber, you think treated is expensive ...
I did some remodling of a place in the refinery part of a town that required me to use only fire retardant lumber, you think treated is expensive ...
BrickHouse
Android Expert
The trouble with rolled sheet metal is it requires too many dies make a decent variety of shapes to be Mobil.
And copper (the better looking and longest lasting) material isn't cheap.
He was fortunate to survive
That missing sock can't be worth the embarrassment
^^^^ how do you even?
W H Y ???