Oiling Shake Roof

Double the life or your cedar shake.

Oiling shake roof.

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. Shingles are sawn from wood blocks and tend to be thinner and more uniform. Sinclair shingle oil penetrates the wood surface to enhance or replace natural oils and resins leached out by cyclical exposure to sun and rain. This oil has wonderful protective qualities when it comes to the wood you treat with it.

Both materials can provide long reliable service when properly installed and maintained. 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. It helps lock in the moisture and prevent the degradation of your cedar shakes without suffocating the material.

Mike hilborn owner of roof to deck restoration demonstrates how to clean repair restore and seal a cedar shake roof. 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. Many currently produced shakes have at least one smooth side so that they can be more easily laid on a roof. 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.

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. Wood shingle preservatives come as both oil based and water based preservatives. Chevron shingle oil penetrates the wood surface to enhance or replace natural oils and resins leached out by cyclical exposure to sun and rain. 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.

The shakes are still intact with no splits or cracks or eroded butts hardly weathered at all. Ideally complete cedar shingle roof maintenance should be performed every 2 to 4 years.