Wood shingles and shakes are the favorite of those house owners who look for external beauty of the building with much importance. In order to build wood shingles and shakes several species of woods are used and they include Western Red Cedar, Alaskan Yellow Cedar and Eastern White Cedar. If you are looking for a smooth type, you could use shingles because they are relatively smooth and cut to a uniform thickness but they vary in width. Compared to wood shingles, wood shakes are thicker and rougher because they are made up from wood by splitting the logs rather than sowing. If you get a pest and building inspection done by experts prior to deciding the type of material to be used for roofing, you will get the proper advice. There is a traditional method of installing wood shingle roof in a way that wood strips or battens nailed directly to the roof rafters and this method is called as skip sheathing. There are a few things you should take care when installing wood roofs because they are meant to breathe and therefore they should be laid over a substrate that allows air to circulate behind them. Also there is another material which is made out of plastic matrix and has the similar looks of a scrubby pad; this material is also good to allow air to circulate behind the shingles. This product is used in already built structures because they could be laid over a building paper coated plywood roof deck. Also, many experts do another method to get air circulation behind the shingles by laying them on pressure treated lattice.
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