 If 5i inches to one another, 655 will cover a square. If 6 inches to one another, 600 will cover a square. This is for common gable roofs. In hip roofs, where the shingles are cut more or less to fit the roof, add 6 per cent to above figures. A carpenter...  Topographic Maps and Sketch Mapping - Page 20by James Kip Finch - 1920 - 175 pagesFull view - About this book
 | K. L. Armstrong - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 460 pages
...will require five pounds of shingle nails. Six pounds of ^d nails will lay looo split pine shingles. A carpenter will carry up and lay on the roof from 1,500 to 2,000 shingles per day, or two squares to two squares and a half of plain gable-roofing. The pitch of a slated... | |
 | Frederick Thomas Hodgson - Architecture, Domestic - 1904 - 370 pages
...hip roofs, where the shingles are cut more or less to fit the roof, add 6 per cent to above figures. A carpenter will carry up and lay on the roof from 1,500 to 2,000 shingles per day, or 2 to 2-J- squares of plain gable roofing, so that an average price per square... | |
 | Frederick Thomas Hodgson - 1917 - 696 pages
...hip roofs, where the shingles are cut more or less to fit the roof, add 6 per cent to above figures. A carpenter will carry up and lay on the roof from 1,500 to 2,000 shingles per day, or 2 to 2£ squares of plain gable roofing, so that an average price per square for... | |
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