Old Wood Shake Roof

Typically it s composed of 1 6 deck boards spaced about 4 5 inches apart.

Old wood shake roof.

Available thicknesses are 1 2 and 5 8. Wood shingles are thin tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Wood shakes are also thicker than wood shingles. Shakes or shake shingles have been used for roofing and siding for centuries.

Chances are your old wood shake shingle roof was installed over what s called an open spaced deck. Cedar wood shakes have been used in america since colonial times having been the primary roofing system installed for. This shake gives a naturally tailored look of a shingle accented by the sharper shadow line of a shake due to the thickness of the butt. Traditional wood shakes were created by splitting logs wood along the grain.

On both sides like a wood shingle only thicker. Today shingles are mostly made by being cut which distinguishes them from shakes which are made by being split out of a bolt. Historically shingles were split from straight grained knot free bolts of wood. This was possible because wood shakes are stiff planks of wood and would overlay these gaps without posing any sort of issue.

Cedar shake roof cost the average price range to install a 3 000 square foot shake roof is between 18 000 and 20 000 or about 600 to 670 per square. It s the most popular type of wood roof. It produces a roof with a very textured appearance.