What kind and grade are you using? Eastern whites or western reds? R&Rs or plain? What has been your experience with “factory finished” shingles? Staple or nail? SS or galvanized? KD or air dried? The choices are mind boggling, and the prices are all over the map.
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Micro
Big debate here on those choices.
Shop the boxes and its reds cause thats all they have.
I like the whites but some swear here that they dont do what the manufactorers say they do such as no maintenance.
My experiance on my last house was that the best grade of whites need little maintence unless under trees. Almost six years later on the ones I put up look a gorgous grey. Sorry.thats what they look like. I'll report back in another six years.....The people up the road that did their reds a year after I did mine are pretty ugly already.
Be a location
Namaste
andy
"Understanding yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth"
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I have used all kinds of shingles in tough conditions, ocean front homes that get sand blasted and can reduce a red down from a 3/8" butt to 1/8" buttin seven to ten years. my advice is where ever you install them you get more life with less exposure. Reds I don't go any more than 6" and whites no more than 5" r&r with pre stain and then a coat after installed is a machined look reds are more rustic.
Shaver
shaver
In my experiance reds get more than rustic for the typical homeowner that wont maintain the siding. They get black real fast as you see all too often no matter what the exposure.
I suppose the thread should really be more about maintenance explained in detail to the homeowner before the job is started because any siding is pretty much ok if its maintained.
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andy
"Understanding yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth"
Alan Watts
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
My exposure will be 6". Within each type, western red and eastern white, and eliminating the fishscale, etc. and the factory primed, there are, in the wholesaler catalog I am reading, choices as follows. For WRC: #1 Perfections, #2 Perfections, Fivex, #1 Resquared and Rebutted (R&R) in various brands. For eastern white: Extra "A", plain and R&R, Clear "B", plain and R&R, Extra "A" and Clear "B" both "Select Cuts", 2nd clear "C", and 2nd clear "C" R&R. But when I ask a dealer salesman about all this terminology, they go dumb. Who dealt this mess?
I use nothing but Maibec select,extra clears, sanded and rebutted square. White cedar. You can get them pre-dipped.
Good shingles save labour cost and waste percentage on the job, in additon to making for a better looking wall.
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Excellence is its own reward!
Edited 3/30/2003 12:31:50 PM ET by piffin