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Building a Big Shed to Store Big Trains - Part 4
Nov 19, 2003
By Rick Brown |
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How does one put shingles on the Big Shed? Check out how Rick does it, almost 2,000 times.
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The roof was sanded for the last time, and I started a short test strip of the shingles on the outer edge of one side of the roof to see what it was going to look like. 
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Using a tube of Red Devil Multi-purpose Construction Adhesive in a caulking gun, I laid down two beads of adhesive about a foot long (I had already put down a blue chalk line to give me a straight line to work with). The shingles are an inch wide, give or take 1/8th and 4 1/8 inches long 
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I started on the right corner edge and worked to my left, over lapping one rib on each shingle. After the test strip was down, I put a piece of scrap 1"x4"x12" on top of the shingles and clamped it down with Quick Grip clamps  
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After letting the test strip set for a few hours, I pulled the clamps and the wood strip. The shingles looked good to me and they didn't move when I tried to push them up and down with my fingers  
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Being satisfied with the look of the shingles, I called Scott Lindsay at Garden Scale Lumber Co in Sequim, Washington, and ordered 1800 shingles. The 1800 were just a seat of the pants guess on what I would need for the roof. Besides, Sequim is only about 60 miles away and it would be easy to get more if I needed too. I picked up the shingles about a week later and started the first row of the roof  
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After the first row was finished, I ran into a small problem. The clamps would not reach the second row of the shingles to hold them down while the adhesive dried and the angle of the roof was too steep to put any weight on it with out sliding off. After a little standing around and scratching my head, I re-engineered the roof on the sawhorses, put one edge of the roof on the floor with the ends cushioned with folded up rags to protect them and slipped 2- 2"x4"s on top of the sawhorses, under the roof edge. The roof was more level to work with and I could put weight on it to hold down the shingles as the adhesive dried   
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Now, what to use for weight? I reverted back to my old "window press"  
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Figuring this would take forever to do in such short strips, I resorted to anything I had laying around! I used 2 sledge hammers and a couple of 5 gallon buckets filled half full of rocks (you can never have too many empty 5 gallon buckets for yard work).  
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Once I started the second row, I over lapped the bottom of the shingles about 1/2 inch at the bottom and I put down a bead of adhesive along the top edge of the bottom shingle. This seemed to make a better bond for each row   
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Each side of the roof took about a month to complete. What you can't see in the pictures is the "weather"!! The pictures were taken on "sunny" days. The weather had turned cold and rainy and working in an open carport, this wasn't the most fun thing I could think of doing  
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You will notice the top two rows were left unfinished. That is because I planned on putting a cupola or air vent of some type along the top ridge of the roof. I just hadn't figured out what it was going to look like at this time.    
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Next chapter will be the cupola and moving the roof and attaching it to the train shed... stay tuned... Top of Page
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