This is not how to get kids to go into engineering...

:What's the scoop concerning the errant answering machine?

Telephone poles burned. I was thinking that I could have left a cell
phone in the kitchen, turned on, with an extended battery pack, but it
turns out a bunch of the local cell towers burned, too, so it would
have given me the same false indication.

I can't believe that some people still have shake roofs. You might as
well live under a pile of matches.
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I FINALLY got rid of the shakes... g
cedar shakes that is.

In the wealthy areas surrounding Kansas City, most of
the upscale homes are being constructed with 'em.
In some subdivisions, they are/were required by
home owner associations.


Barnyard BOb - survivor of a wood roof fire.

BOb wrote:

I FINALLY got rid of the shakes... g
cedar shakes that is.

In the wealthy areas surrounding Kansas City, most of
the upscale homes are being constructed with 'em.
In some subdivisions, they are/were required by
home owner associations.

Another triumph of aesthetics over engineering.

The number of new roofs constructed of cedar shakes has declined
substantially here in North Texas. Dunno if it's the rather spectacular
house fires or regular occurrence of hailstorms that is the motivating
factor. A few years ago there was a live broadcast of a chain-reaction
housefire that destroyed three $500K+ houses (IIRC).

My and my neighbor's houses were built by the same builder at the same time
in 1983. I replaced the original shake roof with composite in 1999. This
last April, a hailstorm swept through our neighborhood annihilating every
skylight in the neighborhood (peach-sized hailstones). My roof (and I
think every other roof in the neighborhood) was damaged enough to require
replacement, although it is still holding and leak-free (plan to replace
soon). My neighbor's original 20 year old shake roof merely slightly
delayed the hailstones before they proceeded to penetrate the ceiling
sheetrock. He has a new composite roof now. :-)

Russell "INCOMING!" Kent

On 05 Nov 2003 07:56 AM, posted the following:

I can't believe that some people still have shake roofs. You might as
well live under a pile of matches.

Because they are cool. I still have my dad's old froe and mallet out in
the garage and want to make a shake roof someday, but it probably will
end up being for a shed.

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