Cedar Shake Roofing in Mableton

A cedar roof is a little like a garden: give it what it needs and it rewards you for years. Neglect the basics and it struggles. The wood breathes with the weather, plumping up in a soaking rain and slimming down in summer sun, so every shake needs a hairline of open space beside its neighbor. Underneath, it wants a layer that lets damp escape rather than trapping it, and a steady draft of air so the boards can dry before the next shower. Put a cedar roof under thick shade, and those needs double. Skip them and the result is predictable: curling, splitting and a green carpet of moss long before the wood should tire. When we visit a cedar roof, we look for exactly those warning signs, along with tired metal in the valleys and along walls and any planes that stay stubbornly damp. Then we coach you through the options honestly. Often, replacing a patch of shakes and renewing the metal buys the roof many more good years. Sometimes the wood has simply run its course. Whichever way you go, each shake we lay gets its breathing room and proper fastening, the metal is brand new and the peak is vented.