I am doing a reno on an old house, built around 1910. There are the original cedar shingles on the walls, which are in amazingly good shape. I am adding an extension of about 18 feet by eleven feet. The 18′ wall is an extension of the original side wall.
Any advice on blending the original cedar with the new would be appreciated.
I have taken pains to make the new sheathing (1/2″plywood) be flush with the original 1×8. My main concern is maintaining water tightness (tarpaper) but cosmetics are important. We don’t want the new extension to look “new” or added on.
Thanks in advance.
Alan
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my opinion is that there is no chance the new will match the old well enough not to look added on.... strip it and reside.
I dont think it'll happen.
You might consider putting up a cpl a dozen newbies and trying to see how a stain might blend em together.
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Depending on the style of the house and your taste, could you run up a 5/4x4 at or near the seam??
I'm not saying that it would be pretty, or what I would do but.......don't go stripping the whole side right away. Break back the old shingles and key in your new stuff. See how it looks and decide if you can live with it. If you can't, then go ahead and strip the rest off and replace with new. Also, you might try blending in some old shingles(the ones that you saved from the old end of the house) with the new in the area where you are patching in.
The texture and crispness of the edges is probably the difference in apperance you will notice the most. I think the older shingles had the saw blade mark more profound.
Thing to do would have been to offset the new addittion in or out a few inches to create a natural break.
Good Luck,
Eric
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Thanks to all for the advice.
Eric: That's about how I'd figured it, too.
The advice I am looking for is about weaving the old with the new.
I would have liked to do an offset, but lot limitations put the kibosh on that.
Anybody familiar with weaving new shingles into old out there?
If you know how they go up it is easy to contemplate how they come down or what they look like when the old is prepared to accept the new.
A picture would be worth a thousand words right now. You will need a shingle ripper at best, although it can be done with a flatbar or two and a nail puller. You want to remove or "break back" the shingles one at a time to expose them in a zig zag look vertically. Or you might say it looks staggered. You then weave in the new shingles.
I am a little pressed for time right now so I hope this will whet your appetite for more info.Every once in a while, something goes right!
Thanks again.
Very good diagram that pretty well shows you how to shingle sidewalls. Doesn't answer my melding problem, but as you say, it'll probably come clear once I start.
What is a shingle ripper?
Alan
Look at the right side of the drawing and you will see the stagger effect,
A shinle ripper or the same tool by many other names is a long flat steel bar with a couple of hooks on on end to reach up under a shingle and grab a nail, and a hanle with a good spot to whack with a hammer downward to pull the nail.
This all probably makes no sense at all to you, but once you get a little involved it may become crystal clear.
You might try starting a new thread about patching in shingles or something like that. There are quite a number of people here that have done as much or more shingling as I have that may be able to better describe the process or lead you to some helpful info.
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