11.   Those edges are wood shingles, and they look pretty awful.

12.   When a wood shingle absorbs too much moisture, it can swell and buckle away from the roof.

13.   When Jerry Connolly of Newton, Mass., asked how to remove individual wood shingles from his house wall, the handyman gave several techniques that would work.

14.   Wood shingles became popular because of the abundance of trees, something that was in short supply in England and Europe.