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  2. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    Shingle is a corruption of German Schindel meaning a roofing slate. [1] Shingles historically were called tiles, and shingle was a term applied to wood shingles, [1] as is still mostly the case outside the US. Shingles are laid in courses, usually with each shingle offset from its neighbors.

  4. Covering (construction) - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of techniques towards "sandwich" glass composed of two glass sheets glued to a synthetic film improved mechanical resistance, safety, and allowed for larger glazed surfaces. The use of glass with a central metal framework (factory roof sheds), organic glass, resin as for polycarbonate sheets, widely used for veranda roofing due to ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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

  7. Owens Corning - Wikipedia

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    Warship insulation, called Navy Board, was a permanent form-board insulation covered with woven continuous fiber cloth. Owens-Corning produced a prototype boat hull constructed of fiber glass-reinforced plastic in 1944. [11] In 1945, the company worked with an automaker to produce the first fiberglas-reinforced plastic car body.

  8. Roof - Wikipedia

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    The 20th century saw the manufacture of composition asphalt shingles which can last from a thin 20-year shingle to the thickest which are limited lifetime shingles, the cost depending on the thickness and durability of the shingle. When a layer of shingles wears out, they are usually stripped, along with the underlay and roofing nails, allowing ...

  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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