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  2. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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    Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically shingles , also known as shakes , were split from straight grained, knot free bolts of wood.

  3. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...

  4. Shingle weaver - Wikipedia

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    A shingle weaver (US) or shingler [1] (UK) is an employee of a wood products mill who engages in the creation of wooden roofing shingles or the closely related product known as "shakes." [ 2 ] In the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, historically the leading producer of this product, such shingles are generally made of Western Red ...

  5. Shingle - Wikipedia

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    Wood shingle. Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle; Quercus imbricaria, or shingle oak, a wood used for shingles; Asbestos shingle, roof or wall shingles made with asbestos-cement board; Asphalt shingle, a common residential roofing material in North America

  6. Purlin - Wikipedia

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    A purlin plate in wood construction is also called an "arcade plate" in European English, [1] "under purlin", and "principal purlin". The term plate means a major, horizontal, supporting timber. Purlin plates are beams which support the mid-span of rafters and are supported by posts. By supporting the rafters they allow longer spans than the ...

  7. Birdsmouth joint - Wikipedia

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    A birds-mouth joint in a rafter, set upon a double top plate. Shown are the two cuts of the joint: the seat cut and the heel cut. In light frame construction, a birdsmouth joint or bird's beak cut is a woodworking joint that is generally used to connect a roof rafter to the top plate of a supporting wall. [1]

  8. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    A simple rafter roof consists of rafters that the rafter foot rest on horizontal wall plates on top of each wall. [3] The top ends of the rafters often meet at a ridge beam, but may butt directly to another rafter to form a pair of rafters called a couple.

  9. Siding (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Highly decorative wood-shingle siding on a house in Clatskanie, Oregon, U.S. Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building. Along with the roof, it forms the first line of defense against the elements, most importantly sun, rain/snow, heat and cold, thus creating a stable ...

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