Sunday, 21 July 2013

Chain Link Fences and Roofing Nails



CHAIN LINK FENCE
Chain link fences don’t win many prizes for beauty and designs but chain link fabric is both versatile and practical when used as fence material. You see chain link fence everywhere, homeowners use them to keep intruders out and their pets and children in. They keep kids from using swimming pools without supervision. Businesses use chain link fencing to secure tools, vehicles and inventory and to partition large areas. Public agencies use thousands of miles of fencing along highways. That keeps pedestrians and falling rocks off the roads. Ranchers and farmers corral their livestock with chain link wire mesh and barbed wire. They feed cattle from bins made of chain link fabric.
Chain link fences are made from posts, fabric and mounting hardware. They only support the fences and they can be smaller diameter and slightly shorter than the other posts. Another difference is that top rails rest on top of line posts.


Roofing Nails
Install asphalt roofing material over solid roof sheathing where we use 11 or 12 gauge hot-dipped galvanized or aluminum roofing nails with heads that are at least 3/8 inch in diameter and barbed wire or deformed shanks that are 1 to 2 inches long. When re-roofing with asphalt shingles use nails that are long enough to go at least ¾ inch into the sheathing. You can make sure the nails you use are long enough by checking the underside of the sheathing to see if they come through it. Allow for about 2 ½ pounds of nails per square when you install asphalt shingles.
When you install shingles across a roof, start nailing from the end nearest the shingle you just laid and proceed across. This will prevent buckling which drive nails straight to the nail head does not damage the surface of the shingle. Don’t drive nails into knotholes or crack in the sheathing. If you have to remove a nail, seal the hole with roofing cement or remove and replace the entire shingle.

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