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  • Glue just-below the guideline and down the back-edge; I am using hot-melt glue for this shingle job. I might use solvent-based construction cement instead. A word of caution about hot-melt glue: the learning process for hot-melt always involves burns and lost skin. If you're not already a hot-melt user, stick with panel cement
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  • Lining up the Shingles with the Guideline
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  • The second line starts with a half-shingle
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  • Splitting a shingle for a "half-shingle". I looked at the grain to choose one that would split straight
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  • On up the side... every course of shingles is glued at the back edge so the shingles there can stand the trimming process
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  • When I touch a shingle to the glue, it is a little high so I will draw the shingle down spreading the glue as the top comes to the Guideline. This technique reduces the squeezings that come up between the shingles
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  • I have run out of guidelines to show me where to put the shingles. I am measuring 1" from the bottom of the course to draw a "bottom-guideline"
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  • the shingles are well glued to the wall
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  • A new "bottom Guideline"
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  • And then short shingles for the top-top course
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  • Gluing right up to the edge is important so the shingles don't fall apart when the top edge is trimmed
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  • Following the bottom guideline
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