Oiling Shake Roof

Mike hilborn owner of roof to deck restoration demonstrates how to clean repair restore and seal a cedar shake roof.

Oiling shake roof.

Double the life or your cedar shake. Chevron shingle oil penetrates the wood surface to enhance or replace natural oils and resins leached out by cyclical exposure to sun and rain. The shakes are still intact with no splits or cracks or eroded butts hardly weathered at all. Normally after a 10 year period of not cleaning a homeowner will notice the green moss or mold the lichen or the dark brown to black coloration of fungi.

Many currently produced shakes have at least one smooth side so that they can be more easily laid on a roof. Ideally complete cedar shingle roof maintenance should be performed every 2 to 4 years. Sinclair shingle oil is a water white low viscosity oil designed for use as a shingle or shake dressing for shake roofs wooden fencing wood siding and log homes. But some of these steps should be completed more often.

Shingles are sawn from wood blocks and tend to be thinner and more uniform. Both materials can provide long reliable service when properly installed and maintained. Maintaining this kind of roof takes a lot of work and needs to be done regularly to avoid faster deterioration. Many cedar redwood shakes roof homeowners weren t told they need to maintain their roof to reach the potential natural life span of anywhere from 40 to 60 years.

It helps lock in the moisture and prevent the degradation of your cedar shakes without suffocating the material. Wood shingle preservatives come as both oil based and water based preservatives. All of the roof gets sun so there s never any mold or mildew or moss or other visible staining and the roof is a dark brown with maybe a slight grayish tinge. Sinclair shingle oil penetrates the wood surface to enhance or replace natural oils and resins leached out by cyclical exposure to sun and rain.

At cedar roof coatings we only use the top quality twp 200 series oil for our customers. A shake roof can last about 30 years with the right wood shake roof maintenance.