cedar shakes

That's a fact, OS. Woody, when I worked the numbers around in my head, that's what I came up with at first, but we are obviously missing some information here. He said only 3" were showing. No way to pass a shake over two and put the tips under the third on loose-laid felt and if it was fastened you'd run into every fastener. If they snapped lines and held the felt to those, fastening high, and they used 22" felt, there would be two inches showing and a very short starter course. (My tail is twitching.) :angry: Whatever it was, it was bold-faced ignorance. (Now my ears are laid back.) Think I'll quit before I start growling.

My guess is that they felted it as they went and used the top 0f the shakes as the line for the top of the felt.

I am with you Egg. You know if they just laid the felt at the right exposure and straight, they could use the bottom of the felt to keep them straight and they could use the next row of felt to know exactly where to nail them. They worked twice as hard as they had to to do a poorer job.

What an odd situation. I'm trying to imagine just how frustrating it must have been to lay up the roof that way but even trying to imagine the scenario is frustrating. Very weird. :blink:

It is installed wrong. Will it fail????? a lot depends on conditions. What pitch is it? How much sun? Do valleys dump out onto it?. I've seen felt installed so it show between the shakes and last 20 years. I've seen it installed correctly and the roof fail in 14.

No it shouldnt be the cause of leaks..