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Architects, builders and applicators indicate to us that the expenditure is not significant when considering total construction costs - particularly since it involves a premium quality roofing material."

Shingle cladding can integrate both residential and commercial projects into sensitive sites. Pressure treated fire retardant shingles capable of achieving the fire code roof requirements make the designs possible. Cedar shingles are perfect for unifying projects with environmental harmony and minimizing future maintenance requirements.

(Continued from page I 2 ) when very few people were pushing it," said tconard. "More people are into it now."

Competition, coupled with a slower market, has taken a bite out ofbusiness. The company now grosses about $2 million annually. Fully operating, it employs 12 to 14 people, recently swelling to as many as 25. In the early 1980s, when Cedar I was a one-of-a-kind business in town and the market was better, the firm had as many as 50 workers and brought in nearly $4 million a year.

But the business has been changing since Chapdelaine purchased the 16 acre facility in 1966. "I'm more heavily into the retail end now," he said. "In 1966, we were furnishing a lot of products for the construction ofpowerhouses and for tunnel jobs. With the area more built up, we're becoming more of a home center type."

His remanufacturing plant now includes two planers, a pallet shook plant, twin rc-saws, a big re-saw and a fencing manufacturing set-up, in addition to a separate office in Reno, Nv.

Chapdelaine sees his success as not only "from being able to provide the specialty items that normally retail yarrds can't supply," but because he deals with a superior product. "There will be even more interest in cedar as time goes on," he said. "More people will know about it and interest in it will go up. At frst people pick redwood, but then they'll study up and see..."

Both western red and incense cedar arc being widely used in manufactured home kits.

Lindal Cedar Homes, lnc., Seattle, Wa.. and Lindal Cedar Homes Ltd., New Westminster, B.C., Canada, offer a wide selection of ready-to-assemble cedar homes. They own and operate their own cedar sawmill and have manufacturing plants in both the U.S. and Canada.

Real Log Homes which has five manufacturing sites in five states including North Carolina, Arkansas, Nevada and Montana, uses cedar logs in its premium pre-cut log home packages.

Tens of thousands of the fabricated cedar homes reportedly have been built in the United States including Hawaii and Alaska. Log homes are equally popular throughout the country.