Looking really smart VJ
I am especially liking your thoughts on using cedar shingles, could be because I am a slater, shingler and coppersmith by trade. Church restoration mainly but back home put up many, many Canadian style barn homes in western red cedar. Lovely to work with but unfortunately these days they don't last anywhere near as long in built up areas due to pollution also quality of cedar too. Lovely and if done properly will never leak. My shed back home when I was a boy was a shed about the size of yours that my dad shingled, walls as well as roof and it never ever had a drop come through, same as all the jobs in my later life. Even when they come to the end of their life they start curling and cracking before they let an water in. Just remember go at least 3 courses before putting a join within 3 or preferably 4 inches of the first one and triple lap.
Look forward to seeing it done.
Jamie
I am especially liking your thoughts on using cedar shingles, could be because I am a slater, shingler and coppersmith by trade. Church restoration mainly but back home put up many, many Canadian style barn homes in western red cedar. Lovely to work with but unfortunately these days they don't last anywhere near as long in built up areas due to pollution also quality of cedar too. Lovely and if done properly will never leak. My shed back home when I was a boy was a shed about the size of yours that my dad shingled, walls as well as roof and it never ever had a drop come through, same as all the jobs in my later life. Even when they come to the end of their life they start curling and cracking before they let an water in. Just remember go at least 3 courses before putting a join within 3 or preferably 4 inches of the first one and triple lap.
Look forward to seeing it done.
Jamie
