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I want to cover a large box with cedar shakes (the box hides the trash cans) for 2 reasons: plywood is not holding up well AND I have the shakes.
2 Questions, how do you figure the reveal (is there a “normal” one AND for some reason I think that the first course is installed upside down. Is that true?
Can you believe that I did this task years ago and I don’t remember what I did? Welcome to a senior moment and get the work dome before the moments became days.
Thanks.
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Jerry
For sidewall shingles the reveal isn't as important. . . 5" should be fine for your application. No the bottom course of cedar shingles
b is not
put on upside down, your thinking of asphalt where the tab grooves need to be hidden. A double starter of cedar shingles, butt over butt, provides a nice shadow line on sidewall applications, but is probably overkill on a trash can box.
Why not incorporate a few rows of fish tail shakes,(to go with the garbage theme) or paint alternating rows in designer colours,(maroon, slate bleu)Let the
i moment become days
on purpose!! :}
-pm
*Jerry - Just divide the height of your wall by a number of courses that will get you as close to Patricks 5" exposure as you can. If you have to fudge a course or two 1/4" around an opening or something, it will never show. But here's a question - are they "shakes" as you said (handsplit, irregular in surface and thickness)? or are they "shingles" (3/8" at butt, machine cut, quite uniform in taper and shape)? Did you happen to see what Mike Guertin did on the back of his house in "Houses"? Wove in a couple of geese of (I think) a different species shingle. Looked great, I can't wait to use the idea. - yb
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Yes, they are geese on Mike Guertin's house. The geese congregate, very noisily, near their house, starting about a month before they migrate.
*Thank you for your suggestions. Ready to do the job but I sure hope that my wife doesn't see your suggestions. They are so creative that I would never get finished.After all, it is a trash can box or at least it was the last time I looked.Geese...geeJerry
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I want to cover a large box with cedar shakes (the box hides the trash cans) for 2 reasons: plywood is not holding up well AND I have the shakes.
2 Questions, how do you figure the reveal (is there a "normal" one AND for some reason I think that the first course is installed upside down. Is that true?
Can you believe that I did this task years ago and I don't remember what I did? Welcome to a senior moment and get the work dome before the moments became days.
Thanks.