I saw this on a small business building in a Cape Cod Main Street setting right near the Cape Cod Canal. Walked past this many times and never really noticed what it was.
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Nice weathered shingles blending in with the Cape Cod Scenery right? Nope.
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That is weathered T-111 lapped. Looked to be about a 10" exposure. This looks like the thin stuff people use to sheath their sheds around here. I couldn't guess how old this is...it has just always been there.
hmmmm...I probably wouldn't have noticed. Now I want to know how long it's been there and how does it hold up... ???
Interesting application. Looks like they should have used hot dip nails :D.
You probably couldn't use this as the normal single wall structural sheathing/siding that T1-11 is famous for. You would need something else to handle the racking resistance.
Yeah, no structural strength, but this isn't the house structural stuff anyway. It has got to be a cheaper way to get that shingled look though.
Now that is one nifty idea. Ive been trying to think of a way to side the wooden false chimnies on my house in missouri. The house is sided in T1-11 .Id love to do a stone veneer but cant afford it. I was thinking of using rough cut slab siding on the chimney, the kind with a ruffled bark edge and staining it gray so that it gave a stone slab look from a distance. But this would be easier and give just enough textural difference to give the effect I want. Might have to try a bit of this with some scrap I have and see how it looks. Thanks.
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