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.

The shakes are still intact with no splits or cracks or eroded butts hardly weathered at all. 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. This oil has wonderful protective qualities when it comes to the wood you treat with it. 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.

Both materials can provide long reliable service when properly installed and maintained. By learning how to apply preservative to wood shingles you can restore the natural oils to the wood fibers safeguard the roof from fungus and rot and protect the roof from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. At cedar roof coatings we only use the top quality twp 200 series oil for our customers. But some of these steps should be completed more often.

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. Ideally complete cedar shingle roof maintenance should be performed every 2 to 4 years. Chevron shingle oil is a straw colored low viscosity oil designed for use as a shingle or shake dressing for shake roofs wooden fencing wood siding and log homes. 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.

Wood shingle preservatives come as both oil based and water based preservatives. A shake roof can last about 30 years with the right wood shake roof maintenance. Many currently produced shakes have at least one smooth side so that they can be more easily laid on a roof. Maintaining this kind of roof takes a lot of work and needs to be done regularly to avoid faster deterioration.

Chevron shingle oil penetrates the wood surface to enhance or replace natural oils and resins leached out by cyclical exposure to sun and rain. Shingles are sawn from wood blocks and tend to be thinner and more uniform.