Wood shake roofs offer a beautiful ascetic appeal. These types of roofs are most commonly installed with individual wood shakes head lapped to ensure water tightness. These types of roofs do require more maintenance as compared to other types of roofs, but they are very easy to repair.

Types of Wood Shake Roofs – The most common type of wood shake roof is cedar shake roofs, but African Hardwood shakes are rapidly becoming the new standard for these types of roofs in Florida. Wallaba shake roofs, are an African Hardwood and provide drastically longer lives as compared to cedar shake roofs. Given the harsh exposure to sunlight in Florida, cedar shake roofs have the tendency to deteriorate more rapidly than other types of roofs. Wallaba shake roofs, on the other hand, are naturally weather-resistant and don’t require the chemical treatments that traditional cedar shingles would need.

Fasteners – Stainless steel coil roofing nails

Underlayment – Ultra HT Wind and Water Seal self-adhering underlayment, or synthetic underlayment applied at each head lap.

Average Expected Life – 10-15 years (Cedar), and 30-40 years Wallaba

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