Originally Posted By: pdacey This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Inspected my first cedar roof yesterday. Original roof on house, 20 years old. I’ve installed cedar roofs before but was never this close and personal with an older one. I think the pictures will speak for themselves. The last two were purposely taken without a flash to show the daylight shining through.
Originally Posted By: ssmith3 This post was automatically imported from our archived forum. Those last 2 look just like the ones I took here. House had orginal cedar and 2 layers of asphalt. I posted them a while back on the photo gallery.
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Originally Posted By: evandeven This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I guess they last longer in Texas.
If maintained, you can get 20-30 years, but not many people change the damaged shingles on a yearly basis. Once the underlayment is exposed, it is all over. They don’t use them much anymore down here. There is an area (Coral Springs) where the development used those roofs.
Ten years after they were built, everyone had to get new roofs. Fortunately, they were mounted on plywood and everyone got tile roofs to replace the shake roofs.
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Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Kevin -
When you see a wood roof that brittle, (a) you'd be stupid to walk it. Its dangerous and you can break every other shingle you step on (then the seller tries to say you did a good part of the damage). (b) Walking its not needed - you know you need major repair or replacement from the ground & that you're gonna recommend that a competent roofer evaluate it - then repair or replace as needed. (c) You know that a typical wood shingle roof has an avewrage life-span of 14-22 years - YOU'RE THERE or REAL CLOSE. (d) Once you saw what you were dealing with, you're wasting YOUR OWN TIME and EVERYBODY ELSES TIME - if you don't move on to something else in the inspection process.
Patrick -
Rule-of-thumb in our area (we're a huge wood shake or shingle market) is that if 30-35% of the roof is damaged you're better replacing it.
In many areas (we're one) the major insurance carriers will want their own guy to look at a wood roof over 10-12 years of age - they'll often decline to cover it or heavily pro-rate it.
Originally Posted By: pdacey This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Vince,
Surprisingly there was none. And we had about 3" of rain the night before into that morning. I told the client that just because there wasn't any sign of leakage didn't mean the roof was good to go. He understood.
Originally Posted By: Roger Petersen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Old cedar roofs of days gone by would last for 50 years if installed correctly. The new cedar shingles of today are altered to grow rapidly and don’t have the integrity nor do they last long.
Originally Posted By: ccoombs This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
My parents got 43 years out of theirs. But in Southern California we get more sun than rain/snow. My dad was very good about doing yearly maintenance. He has had more trouble with the new comp. roof (it is now 10 years old).
It could be a major issue changing from wood shingles to tile. Major structural issues due to the additional weight. Again, may be more of an issue in CA due to earthquakes and no snow load.
