It s the most popular type of wood roof.
Old wood shake roof.
Typically it s composed of 1 6 deck boards spaced about 4 5 inches apart.
Low cost for installation is around 16 000 and high cost is about 27 000.
Shakes or shake shingles have been used for roofing and siding for centuries.
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Historically shingles were split from straight grained knot free bolts of wood.
Cedar wood shakes have been used in america since colonial times having been the primary roofing system installed for.
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.
Chances are your old wood shake shingle roof was installed over what s called an open spaced deck.
Wood shakes are also thicker than wood shingles.
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.
It produces a roof with a very textured appearance.
On both sides like a wood shingle only thicker.
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.
Today shingles are mostly made by being cut which distinguishes them from shakes which are made by being split out of a bolt.