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Old 04-10-2018, 01:29 PM   #469
67ChevyRedneck
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Re: My Big Fat Renovation

I think this one's "safe range" is 50'? But I think it can reach up to 55-60'. I only got it up to +/-45', just above my roof line.

So, the way my house was built, they used about 6-8 actual nails to hold each sheet, then they used 1.5" staples down the studs, and really, not enough either. Over time, because there's no shank, the staples have worked loose, and as I found in some instances, there were studs or edges that only had 3 or 4 for an 8' section. I can't make this crap up. I'm using 2.25" shanked exterior nails with my paslode cordless nailer. The nails I use are expensive, like $50/box. I think I'm up to 6 or 7 boxes now, probably take 8 to finish the whole thing. Yeah, $400 in nails. I've also had to replace about 3 full sheets worth of sheeting that I thought had bowed too much from coming loose, at $30 each.

I found the same problem on the inside of the house. We had REALLY squeaky floors upstairs, like literally every step. When I pulled all of the old stained carpet up I found they glued the floors with with about 10-15 screws per sheet Over time the glue came loose because there wasn't enough screws and squeaky floors. I think I spent $300 on exterior grade decking screws and did the entire upstairs and the living room floor downstairs, and even our staircase and 9 years later there's only 1 spot in the entire upstairs that squeaks when you step on that area.
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