Shake Down Roof

Our undercover shoppers worked with three homeowners to get bids on roofing jobs for their homes.

Shake down roof.

But overall a shake roof is not great in damp environments. As much as possible roofers bid on the same specifications. Our polymer shingles have all of the true to life natural beauty and rustic split textures of real cedar combined with the incredible benefits of a composite roofing material. Shake roof shingles shakes or shake shingles have been used for roofing and siding for centuries.

Traditional wood shakes were created by splitting logs wood along the grain. Most cedar shake roofs are installed over strips of woods with large spaces in between. As illustrated below the roofer to roofer price differences on the same job were striking. It s susceptible to mildew mold and rot.

While the removal of original shakes is the best way to go from the roof integrity ventilation preventing termite infestation moisture problems and rotting of the wood and engineering perspective maximum weight that your roof trusses can support it can be very expensive to remove the original roof have it hauled away and having to install plywood or osb before a new roof can be installed. They also gave energy benefits for heat and insulation and were eco friendly. Cedar wood shakes have been used in america since colonial times having been the primary roofing system installed for hundreds of years. The useful life of a wood shake roof is between 25 and 30 years.

Cedar shake made for excellent roofs and gave good protection from heavy winds and rain hail snowstorms and even hurricanes.