Hi Guys,
Ever see clapboards on a roof? My brother gave me a calendar with a pic of a lighthouse on it and it has clapboards up there. I’ve never seen such a thing.
It’s an East Coast Canadian lighthouse. I’m in Michigan, so I didn’t know if that was maybe an East Coast thing or what. Interesting though.
Oh,by the way, it’s Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.
-Sawdaddy
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I'm doubting that it has clapboards on the roof. paintedcedar shingles can look that way sometimes from a distance tho.
Given the name, I did a google image search and this photo looks to me like it has a cedar roof on it, which is a very common thing in this part of the continent.
http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/canarch/maritimes/maritimes.jpgs/70-101a.jpg
I also found this arcived original plan which does not show a clapboard styleroof necessarily.
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I'd never heard of clapboards on a roof but that's what it looked like.
Must be shingles...
I've definitely seen claps on roofs before - would think some of our scenic vintage villages like Williamsburg or Jamestown? would have some examples maybe in outbuildings
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I spent a summer as a grunt there in Wburg..and yes, White Oak was riven using a froe and a riving fork to split claps..and sure enough, they found their way onto poles that were hewn flat on top to ensure a consistant slope on the roof plane.
First ya find ya tree ( not as easy these days) of WO, that is arrow straight, and clean up to say 16' ( we imported many, due to the fact that all the virgin growth is now gone)...then ya get out the quartering wedges,,and commence to quarter ( the log has been bucked to no more than 5' cus pole rafters were about 30'' centers, that harkens back to thatch roofing in Ole England, btw)..ok so now ya got 4 quarts..which soon will be pints..( watch yer p's and q's is derived from that and yer consumption of alcohol in the King's Arm Tavern, which btw is heavily frequented by wood smiths of all sorts, notably, sawyers were most docked in pay to tha tav, followed closely by the housewrights)..
So now ya have a Glut and a froe and a riving fork..start splitting Alice..by radially having again and again ( halfing for the un initiated, see Helve..I think) you wind up with "stuff", this "stuff" is the makings of all sorts of wondrous "stuff"..all clear, straight grained, no grain run out, "stuff"
Apply as needed to walls or roofs, it is a bevelled edge product..
now we go find a horse..and we slap our stuff on a horse ( of the support variety) and we sit on a moulding plane, while some paid in wine fool guides the animal type horse, while we sit on theat 6'' crown moulding plane, say " what the hell am I thinking?"..The curlers need to be addressed over the shoulder is fine, but some buxom girl will be along shortly to steal that wonder full stuff for her fire or doll making endeaveors..see? we make more and more "stuff", she once had a clothe without " stuffing"
Carry on, you get the gist I am sure..Quarterd WO is Still, one of the most highly sought woods with good reason. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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There was someone on the forum a while back that makes those shingles and does other restoration projects.Think that his name was Bill and he was from MD.
Might you be thinking of Curly in Pa? I know he was a poster with extensive knowledge of timber frames or hand hewn log domiciles? Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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NoHere is one link.http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=9373.1&search=yI think that he as been on later with a different ID, but not recently.
Hardie planks installed like slate might last a real long time..............can't be any worse than grass, cedar shakes, steel, etc
That'd be a different ballgame than wood cl;aps. the Hardi wouldn't swell and shrink. There are cement shingles out too.
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I've noticed in old west movies, some of the roofs appear to be similar to claps. What it looks like is rough saw boards overlapping downhill.
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not that it ever rains on those sets!I have demoed old barns out west that had planks run verticly, doul3ed up with battens on the upper seam, and nothing else - 12/12 or so and dry climates
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I was watching a recent old west movie the other day, and noticed a plywood deck over the exposed rafters. Only a builder / carpenter would make such an observation.
Yep, When we watch some old omantic movie, I end up focusing on architectural details instaed of the plat and charachters.After Jim's commenmt the other day, I ended up[ viewing hundreds of online photos of ghost towns and couldn't find one with horizontally run boarding for shingles om roofs. several had corrugated steel and newer replaced wood shingles. I'd have to see a picture to believe calps on a roof would work. That's why I googled up the original one here.
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Young Yankee..go back in time. See above. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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How is this fastened then to keep it from splitting or cupping?
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A 16'' dia. log yielded about 7" wide splits..the method was to drill and peg them on the under lap..nails were only had from England in them days, and were taxed and tarried heavily.
When the Iron works began in Va, and Pa, nails were wrought here in the colonies, and were still very high priced, so the drill and peg method was very common..like I said earlier, the rafters were spaced at 30" soa 5' shingle only took 3 holes..A smart installer would read the grain and apply the "shingle" so as to "curl" or "cup" in such a way as to not hold water, being as the 1/4 splits were radial splits, that was not really a difficult thying to achieve.
Btw, the lap was often 1.5 ", like the tongue on a framing sq. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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So you are still talking shingles and shakes. I thought you were refering to clapboards on roofs
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no..no..the splits were 5 foot long and applied perp to the rafters, like claps. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I see now - gotta get these glasses checked
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was it the King's Arm Tavern where they tied that 4 foot across napkin around my neck?
man I can see you w/ your lederhosen esque trousers and 3 corner hat charming the lady tourists
cupping - I think it was common in the day they knew to put some pitch on a roof and if there was cupping it just runneth over
this clapboard roofing is reminding me of some of my favorite pictures of habitat - think it would have been thirty yrs or so ago of houses / sheds in Ireland w/ berm stone sides and overturned lapstrake boats for roofs - flowers and foliage sprouting in the gunnels
in National Geographic those pictures were