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Wood shingles Fiber cement siding and shake shingles under the gable roof. 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. Today shingles are mostly made by ...
It is usually produced in units twice as high as clapboard. Plastic imitations of wood shingle and wood shakes also exist. Since plastic siding is a manufactured product, it may come in unlimited color choices and styles. Historically vinyl sidings would fade, crack and buckle over time, requiring the siding to be replaced.
Metal shingles are a type of roofing material that offers the appeal of traditional shingles, such as wood, tile, and slate, while providing high fire resistance and durability. They are crafted from durable heavy-gauge aluminum and designed to emulate the classic appearance of traditional slate, cedar shingles, and other materials.
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 ...
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
Asphalt shingles on a home in Avalon, New Jersey. Two types of base materials are used to make asphalt shingles, organic and fiberglass.Both are made in a similar manner, with an asphalt-saturated base covered on one or both sides with asphalt or modified-asphalt, the exposed surface impregnated with slate, schist, quartz, vitrified brick, stone, [6] or ceramic granules, and the under-side ...
Shakes may reduce the strength of a timber and the appearance thus reduce lumber grade and may capture moisture, promoting decay. Eastern hemlock is known for having ring shake . [ 33 ] A "check" is a crack on the surface of the wood caused by the outside of a timber shrinking as it seasons.
Roofing (clout) nail – generally a short nail with a broad head used with asphalt shingles, felt paper or the like; Screw (helical) nail – a nail with a spiral shank - uses including flooring and assembling pallets; Shake (shingle) nail – small headed nails to use for nailing shakes and shingles