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Chashitsu - Construction continued, fixing the roof
Creating a curved roof posed me with the biggest headache, but during a visit to 'Gardeners World Live' in 1996, I came across a stand promoting American Cedar Shingles. Shingles are used in North America to form a waterproof cladding to roofs and walls, and seemed ideal for the tea house roof as they could be nailed in position and follow the contour of the structure underneath. |
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![[Drawing of how to fix roof shingles]](img/tead2b.gif) |
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You can see from the drawing, every shingle must be fixed on to a batten using two galvanised nails and spaced to allow for any expansion. By fixing a batten then a row of shingles, I was able to work easily from a step ladder until the whole of the roof was completed. |
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![[Fixing first row of shingles]](img/tea9.jpg) |
The first row of the shingles are fixed in position. |
![[Curvature of roof]](img/tea8.jpg) |
This photo shows how the curved roof was created. |
![[Fixing of shingles is half completed]](img/tea7.jpg) |
The roof was half completed when this photo was taken. |
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