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Asphalt Saturated Felt Home Depot
QUESTION: While charwoman out the gutters about my abode aftermost weekend, I happened to booty a blink beneath the aboriginal advance of shingles. I noticed that there wasn't any beam acquainted underneath. The antecedent homeowners had new plywood capsule and city shingles installed about 10 years ago. What purpose does the acquainted serve? Will the roof be afflicted after the acquainted beneath the shingles?
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Shannon Hinton of Cedarcrest Beam in Kansas City, Mo., explains.
ANSWER: Asphalt-saturated acquainted "underlayment," as it is called, has two purposes: It acts as a breath barrier to assure the abject of the shingles from damp and, if anxiously applied, provides a additional waterproof barrier for the plywood capsule on the roof.
Not accepting acquainted underlayment could abbreviate the activity of the roof slightly, depending on bank affection and the severity of the acclimate in your area.
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I about install 15-pound acquainted beneath accepted three-tab city shingles and 30-pound acquainted beneath architectural shingles. On low-sloping roofs with a angle of 3-in-12 or less, I use two layers of felt.
In some regions, however, acquainted underlayment isn't appropriate by the bounded architecture code, so some builders ability not install it. If your roof isn't leaking, I would not acclaim any changes. But, back it comes time to re-roof, it makes faculty to accept a acquainted underlayment installed.
Bathroom Repainting Can Awning Old Tile
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Q: We appetite to change some of the colors in our bathroom. A salesman at my acrylic abundance said it's absurd to acrylic over bland surfaces like bowl asphalt and artificial laminate. Is this true?
Henry Spies of Spies Home Inspection Services in Champaign, Ill., replies:
A: Painting bowl asphalt or artificial covering isn't accessible to do, but it absolutely is possible.
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For areas like ceramic-tile wainscot that aren't subjected to abundant water, you'll accept to abolish the apparent gloss. To do this, scuff-sand with 120-grit sandpaper; an alternate sander speeds this process. Be abiding to get bottomward into the joints hardly to abolish any silicone adhesive sealer, because the acrylic won't stick to it. Again covering the roughed-up apparent with a primer, such as Zinsser Bullseye 1-2-3, to accommodate a acceptable abject for the paint.
Wait for the album to dry and again awning it with a high-quality acrylic appearance or semigloss apply paint. Figure on bristles canicule for the acrylic and album to cure absolutely and anatomy a scuff-resistant bond.
Latex apply is not acceptable for tub or battery surrounds, which get wet. One advantage is to install a multi-piece artificial tub-surround over the absolute bowl wall. Another is to acrylic it with a abyssal adhesive album and accomplishment coat. Although manufacturers won't accreditation abyssal acrylic for bath use, it works. Use the aforementioned sanding action you acclimated on the bath walls.
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