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| Shingles on Your Roof: The Big Picture and Small DetailsShingles on Your Roof: The Big Picture and Small Details If you're buying a tract-built house, the chances are close to 100 per cent that the roof will be asphalt shingles, the most cost effective roofing material currently available. The builder will ask you to pick one from a selection of colors and grades displayed on sample boards. But..
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| Shingling Around ChimneysShingling Around Chimneys The following step-by-step instructions can make your shingle project easier. Take a few minutes to read the instructions carefully before starting, and you can save time, money and effort while completing a better job. Place mineral-surfaced roofing material or aluminum flashing around the edge of a chimney.
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| Shingling Hip RoofsShingling Hip Roofs What is a hip roof?, you ask. No, it's not a roof that's into the latest fashion and music. Actually, you've seen it a million times, you just didn't know there's a name for it. A hip roof is gable roof with the ends brought together at the same pitch as the rest of the roof. Now you know what it is...now find out how...
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| The Lowdown on DownspoutsThe Lowdown on Downspouts It's the rainy season and the last thing you want is your downspouts channeling water into your home's foundation. To get the water away from your house you can let the downspout empty onto a splash block that carries water away from the house, or run an extension gutter. Or you can get a retractable...
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Water Holes
( Added: Sun Oct 13 2002 Hits: 112)
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| Water HolesWater Holes Suddenly noticing water damage in your ceiling plaster? Anything from browning plaster to actual cracks usually means you've got a leak somewhere in your roof. Until you get a chance to fix the leak itself, here's how to avoid further damage and save yourself a massive ceiling job down the road. Just drill a small hole in the.
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Why Roofs Leak
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| Why Roofs LeakWhy Roofs Leak The root purpose of every dwelling (one that dates back millennia) is to provide shelter from the elements. Hence, an architect's most fundamental charge is to design a weathertight building. Unhappily, it doesn't always work out that way. One of the most common complaints I hear is, why can't architects design homes that...
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