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$25 per thousand and I put tliem on up and down without any 

 covering and give tliem a good coat of paint. This makes a neat 

 house. The roof boards are covered with roofing material. It is 

 a little trouble to make such a house tight, but it appears to be 

 comfortable; though, personally, I like a shingled house better. 

 The house shown in the illustrations described in Chapter V are 

 from photographs of Woods' house covered in the "N. C. roofers" 

 and which were taken before house was painted. Such a house 

 could be shingled but it would not be economy to shingle over 

 matched boards as such lose the width of the match in laying and 

 do not cover as well as common boards. For shingling, the house 

 should be boarded horizontally. 



Frame Material. For frame of building common country pine 

 framing stuff can often be had cheaply in some sections, but it 

 seldom pays to use it. Good spruce framing material can be 

 had for slightly higher cost, is a great deal stronger, holds nails 

 better and makes a much better and more lasting building. If 



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you irame with pine you need larger timbers than where spruce 

 is used. 



Roof and Shingles. For covering the roof I like good clear 

 shingles best, laid 4I/2 inches to the weather. It takes about 800 

 shingles to cover 100 square feet when so laid and requires about 

 4 pounds of shingle nails to fasten them on. A man can lay 1,500 

 to 2,000 shingles a day. In laying shingles always have a double 

 course at the eaves. 



Where shingles are used to cover sides they may be either first 

 or second "clears" and may be laid either 5 or 5I/2 inches to the 

 weather. So laid it will take from 720 to 655 shingles to cover 100 

 square feet. If shingles are so put on as to lap or break joints at 

 the corners of the building it makes a good tight and attractive 

 finish and no finishing boards are needed for the corners. If 

 finishing boards are used, waterproof sheathing paper should be 



