Choose The Right Fasteners To Make Your Roofing Last

Reader Contribution by Robert Maxwell
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When I designed my wilderness cabin back in 2009, I knew I wanted to go the extra mile to achieve beauty, and that included an attractive roof. If you’re interested in creating a roof structure that’s well insulated, pleasing to the eye, and shows off natural wood on the inside, this post might open up some new possibilities for you.

I opted to sheathe my roof with solid boards rather than plywood because I wanted something nice to look up at when I was inside, but this presented an obvious problem: How to insulate? I live in Canada, and since I want my cabin to be comfortable in all seasons, insulation is not optional. The typical solution is to stuff the spaces between rafters with batts or spray foam, then cover the whole thing with drywall or boards. Since I wanted to leave my rafters visible, this wasn’t an option. My only alternative was to insulate the roof from the top. In the end, I decided the best way to achieve this was by fastening specially made panels of foam and OSB to the outside of my roof boards.

I found that a company called Barricade (www.ovrx.com) made just the sort of panels I was looking for. The company’s wall panels consist of 2″ of foam factory bonded to 1/2″ OSB. But using these panels led to another difficulty: how to fasten them to my roof.

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