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    Shingles and tar paper roofs together?

    I really don't like Campbells shingles. Would a main building having tar paper roofs and shingled porch look stupid.




    I was thinking of vertical tar paper strips going down the main roof and leaving the porch roof shingled.
    John
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    Actually it would be the otherway around. Shingles need sufficient pitch to drain. Rolled ashphalt roofing is run horizontally and is often used for a low pitch roof. Here is how they do it on 1:1 scale.http://www.wikihow.com/Apply-Rolled-Roofing

    If you do not like the cambells shingles there are laser shingles to be had, and printed versions and you could also hand lay your own using cedar cigar wrappers available free at places that sell high end cigars. Hope this helps
    Chuck Faist

    Burlington, Ontario

    Enjoy yourself it is later than you think!

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    • #3
      John, Rolled roofing would be better than "tar paper". But it is never put down vertically .... too easy for the edges to get leaks.

      The laser cut shingles from Walt at Rusty Stumps really do make it easy.
      Dave Mason
      On30Kits.com

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      • #4
        One of my wood sheds, now closing on 45 years old, has by itself had combinations of shingles (currently), tar paper, and steel roofing.

        You get out in the woods, go back in time, and folks used what they had, when had it, and when they could get it.

        While one combination may be more preferable than others, I've seen just about every combination, scratched my over it and the decision making process that might have been involved, and just accepted that there was probably some reason for doing that roof that way. Might not have been a "good" reason", but....
        In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding.

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        • #5
          Hi Guys:

          Tar paper as you know if roofing felt. It would not hold up as a permanent roof under any circumstances. It is applies to the sub roof. Then the rolled roofing would be applied. Rolled roofing is the same a asphalt shingles . It is just made in a single 3 foot wide strips with no tabs. As mentioned rolled roofing is applied to low pitched roofs.

          Karl S.

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          • #6
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            Tar paper as you know if roofing felt. It would not hold up as a permanent roof under any circumstances.
            Really?

            First 20 years the roof on what was then my grandfathers cabin (larger than some folks homes...) in PA was tarpaper. I helped put it down when I was a wee lad before I helped him put steel over it.

            First 30 years on the adjoining woodshed was the same tarpaper. I replaced that with what else -- tarpaper!

            Got ~5 years before a passing microburst tore 1/2 of it off - seems that the quality of tar paper is not what is was, . Got the next 3 years with regular shingles which let me teach my son the joy of how to put down shingles.

            The steel roof portion of that same shed is pushing 45 years now and nary a leak in it. The locust post construction is solid as a rock after ~50 years now.
            In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding.

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            • #7
              I build homes and sheds and in PA where I grew up to where I live now in New Hampshire, Tar Paper is roof felt.....The difference? About .100th of an inch of thickness.....the old Roof felt, was "thicker" then the same Tar Paper of today, which is known as Roof Felt.....Under layment, for Shingles......

              Since the tar paper got thinner, its no longer able to stand up to the elements, as it was back when it was about an 8th inch thick! Now, your lucky if its 3/32nds thick!

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