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Environmental Demo Home Resource efficient Comply Lap

Siding and Sturdi-I-Floor manufactured by Oregon Strand Board are being used in an environmentally friendly demonstration house being built in Portland, Or.

Comply uses wood shavings which nonnally would be a waste product, Oregon Strand Board general manager Ken Kiest explains. Wood fibers and veneers are bonded with exterior grade resins under intense heat and pressure to form a solid-core structural panel. Since there are no by-products or waste, the company considers the wood product one of the most environmentally responsible available.

Shingles Survived Iniki

Despite the widespread damage inflicted by Hurricane Iniki on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, many shingle and shake roofs were able to weather the storm with little or no damage.

The Hawaii chapter of the American Institute of Architects was so impressed with the roofing material's performance that they requested 500 copies each of the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau's new roof design manual and their five product sheets. The bureau sent 3,000 corrplimentary copies, which were then distributed to specifiers, contractors, roofers and homeowners involved in the rebuilding of the island.

Boards Rated Best Subfloor

A recent study commissioned py the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association tested the effectiveness of three different thicknesses of plywood and oriented strandboard (OSB) as well as 3/4" kiln drigd southern.yellow pine boards as subflooring for nail installed hardwood. Botl machine driven cleats and pneumatic driven staples rvere used to fasten 3/4" x 2-114" strif flooring to the subfloors. The nail and staple connections to the kiln dried southern yellow pine board subfloor outperformed the connections in all other subfloors. Results showed little difference between 3/4" plyrvood, 5/8" plywood and 3/4" OSB.

The Virginia Tech study supports the industry's long recomrnended 5/8" or thicker plywood or 314" kiln dried dense Group I softwood boards as preferred subfloor material for sdlid hardwood blind nailed flooring and adds 3/4" OSB as a suitable substrate.