Re: [GBlist] hardiplank/red cedar shingles

["Alan Abrams, A.I.B.D." <awabrams@starpower.net>]

To annotate my own message--

the shingles I referred to are typically all heart, very close vertical
grain--presumably old growth stuff.  I don't know if a reforested cedar tree
would yield the same quality material.

> >
> > By the same token, red cedar shingles on houses built in the Teens and
> > Twenties are still going strong here.
> >
> > Alan Abrams, AIBD
> >
> >


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