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Keep red cedar shingles when attaching lean to greenhouse?

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Hi everyone, I’m in upstate new york and planning to build a lean to greenhouse on my south facing wall which has red cedar shingles. I tried googling this question but didn’t see any answers or examples. Is it okay to keep the shingles or should i redo the siding with something else? I have citrus and fig trees that won’t survive without a greenhouse. Thank you!

Dennis Goyette

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When I built my lean to wood shed, on the side of my workshop/garage, I kept the cedar shingles that were on the outer wall (on the outer wall) and just used new shingles on the lean to all around. I won't take them off and reuse.

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Lena, welcome to the forum!

when trying to remove the shingles the shingles may well deteriorate and not be worth reusing.

As an experiment, try removing one and see what happens.

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Cedar shingles are one of the best things to have as the greenhouse back wall.

Depending on the rest of the wall construction, you may have to be careful about humidity and moisture migration into the insulation. That is the only reason I would pull the cedar.

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I see, thank you for the responses! I wasn’t planning to reuse them but was worried if the moisture would be too much for them. But if they’re okay to be inside the greenhouse, i will keep them! Ty!

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Hi Lena,
Yeah, I don't think there will be a problem. Worst case, they will degrade faster, but cedar doesn't degrade all that fast. You should be fine for quite a while.

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