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They say an eco-friendly house can't be built in 150 days for $150,000, and I say it can.
I'm Allen Smith, join me as I push the limits with time, budget and creativity with the
Garden Home Challenge, exclusively on eHow Home. We're trying to get these dormers pieced
in. We're going to be doing wall sheets instead of roof sheets, and running the roof sheets–the
wall sheets up the side of the dormers there. We got to do transition pieces roof to wall,
but we got to do that to be able to put on our bridge cap. So we got to get this done
first before the rain. What I'm doing here is we have–since this a 12-12 pitched roof,
we have a true 45 angle going up the dormers. The bottom of this sheet is on a 45, but we
got a 4-12 going up at the top of the dormers, so our angle is just a little bit different.
And what we try to do is we mark the sheets with a Sharpie. We don't use a pencil because
a pencil will rust the sheets over time. Because the lead in the pencil will. So we use a Sharpie.
We make our marks and we have two different types of snives. We got our reds and our greens,
which is a right hand and a left hand. We make sure we put the right cut on there. They
make a tool, a nibbler tool, that cuts the sheets. But you get a more precise cut, especially
since it's gonna be exposed, by using snives. So that's what we're doing. Right here on
top of the sheet, right into the dormer, we have what's called a roof to wall sheet. So
it's going from the roof and climbs up the wall. And that's like a flashing for water
dripping. And the sheet will actually sit on the outside of that and we'll put bubble
gum or mastic on the bottom of the back side of the sheet right here. And then we put two
screws at the bottom. And then that way that ensures no water will come up when it's going
down.