Venice ADU Construction in Cedar Shingle
Venice ADUs sided in red cedar shingles fixed with stainless nails, left to weather in damp, salty air or stained to suit the older main house.
Damp, salty air is the case for siding a Venice ADU in red cedar shingles. Cedar carries natural oils that resist decay, the shingles shed water course over course, and when one splits it can be slipped out and replaced on its own. Left bare, they turn a soft silver gray as they weather, and each one is fixed with stainless nails.
Nails, laps and what sits behind
Cedar reacts with plain steel. Tannins in the wood stain around an ordinary nail and slowly eat at it, a process sped up near the ocean, so every shingle gets stainless fasteners. Each course overlaps the one below by more than half its length, with joints offset so no seam lines up with the one beneath. Behind the shingles, a house wrap and a textured mat leave a gap where any water that slips through can drain and the backs of the shingles can dry.
Weathered, stained or painted
Bare cedar weathers unevenly at first, darkest under the eaves, and a bleaching oil can even out the change to gray. A semi-transparent stain holds a color longer and lets the grain show through. Where the older main house wears painted shingles or clapboard, the unit's shingles can be primed on every face and painted in its colors. At the corners, woven shingles or a pair of corner boards follow whichever the house shows, and the house's own siding is left untouched by the work.
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ADU Construction in Venice: common questions
The panel on the main house is checked for room to carry the unit, and if it has little to spare, LADWP can set a separate meter. Boxes and fittings mounted outside are rated for wet locations, the water branch gets a valve at the unit, and a camera survey of the old lateral comes before the new drain is connected, with LADBS signing off the open trench.
Yes, when the slab, sills and rafters hold up. The old door track and header come out, and the opening is framed and sheathed. Wrapped and shingled like a new unit, the conversion then hides that patch completely, since shingles carry across new and old framing without a visible seam.
Shingles suit a house that already wears them, laid at the same exposure and with the same butt line, whether straight or staggered. Beside a stucco or clapboard house, cedar can go on the unit's gables alone, a detail found on many older houses, while the walls follow the house. The roof pitch and window shapes are taken from the main house too.
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