CEDAR SHAKES anyone Rate Shakes

[MountainManDan]

Buying Shakes ~ Apply Shakes ~ or just ~ Trying - to - Shake It All Out

AAA Rated
AA Rated

Red & Blue Heart or Clear - Squared or Not . . Pre_Painted or just Primed

Ask Your Questions - Try My Best to get Proper Answer somewhere in My Mind

These are Quality Shakes - when - after inspecting & Using - Only have this :

When You Have This Pile on Floor - You Either Doing Major Work or Poor Quality . . from Supplier

 

[MountainManDan]

Old Guy with Pencil ~ ~ Thinks He 50 . .

 

[Vexorg]

Looks good, but I do not understand why we like to wrap our houses in firewood.

 

[IndyIan]

I think for the vast majority of purchases, shakes are more a of a decorative feature, than something to keep the weather out of a wall or roof? I've looked at them here at a regular building centre and they are full of knots, but I've never tried to get good ones.

Also I think you need to be cutting old growth or very early slow second growth trees to make shake on a large scale? Locally shakes were all old growth clear white cedar, but that is long gone by the 50's or 60's, and even the ~100 yr old second growth we have cut here, doesn't have many clear sections to make shakes. Some of the second growth white pine might work as it often has 2'+ between sections of branches, but I think they should be used only on a vertical wall? Barn boards here last 60-70-80 years before they get flipped.

 

[MountainManDan]

OK Have to Back Pedal just Little :

 

[MountainManDan]

Agree these are Western Red AAA Heart Clear from Old Submerged Logs that Guy up on West Coast Recovers & Pulls Pulls . .
Big Logs to where He able to Work on them gets Big Chucks in His Boat then back to His Home to Finish ..

Civil Eng. I got these from Bought way to many - Hey Placing them all Under Porches . . really need New Type Rain
Screen set up Breathing .. on My Little Cottage & Back Porch both are None Heated & I also took steps for Better Control ..

Maybe I should Back Pedal even Further to Days I was Doing shakes on Boat Houses for Rich & Famous . . up in Mountains
On those 1 Million Dollar Homes with 400K Boat Houses on Lakes . . with 100K Chris Craft Barrel Back Parked in Boat House . .

No , were just doing 3 Season Type Rooms . . for Us ..

Cottage :

This was Falling Down , so Out came Railings - Sold those - Went to Fixing It Proper !

No Plans - Build as Ya Go ..

Double Courses @ Bottom & Up Above at gable . . Upper


Above Windows :

 

[MountainManDan]

Looks good, but I do not understand why we like to wrap our houses in firewood.

I Live n One of These If I had Money to Build - but - Then I'd have to Fire Half of TN & Do It Myself . .
What 4 or 5 in Half State are really Good & Rest are Commercial . . $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ & 3 yrs Later

This Siding will be Here 75 yrs Min. I have worked on Building where Shakes are 135 yrs almost like New . .

 

[MountainManDan]

Like I Informed those that came by to talk to us about Project - Hurry Up - Check it Out
As Might not see this Ever Again . . as Not to Many do this any Longer . . & Since Price has gone 5X
Even More so then it was Already High End . . Might Not Ever see This Again . .

 

[MountainManDan]

Go over to Zillow - & - Look . . Drying Trade I'm ~ Afraid ~ Count Projects on 1 Hand ..

Sure Newer Products from Hemp & Bamboo - Look to be New & Better Wave of Things to come ..
Right Now - they have Not Got Products in Stores - it's all Special Order . .

My Last Batch of Shakes - went all Way to Cailf. to Build Very Special 1 Off " Bee Barn "
I have Bundle of each Flavor Only for this Home in Reserve . .

 

[nealberke]

Looks good, but I do not understand why we like to wrap our houses in firewood.

California has all but BANNED wood shake roofs. We still have old shake roofs folks repair rather than replace. It's topping your home with kindling.

 

[IndyIan]

Looks good, but I do not understand why we like to wrap our houses in firewood.

In the past, any primarily deciduous forest east of the Mississippi doesn't burn often enough to worry about. There's lots of small grass fires, but even those aren't really a problem 99.9% of the time, unless you have tall grass right up to the house. Until the 1980's farmers here would start grass fires all the time to clear out fencerows and ditches, so it wasn't a huge problem if one chose the right weather to burn in.
Last summer we did actually see a few mixed forest fires in Southern Ontario and there now has been a few in Atlantic Canada, so I guess fire proofness is going to become more of a priority. I have board and batten wood siding and I don't worry about it, and neither does the insurance company, so far at least...

I can see though, out west in many areas, keeping your place as fireproof as possible is a good idea!

 

[Pablo]

Contrary to some belief I find sun is the hardest thing on cedar siding

We had a treated cedar shake roof for years. Get it cleaned and blown off and retreated made it last better than any on our block. In fact we were the last to change to fancy composite. But yes constant fire paranoia wasn’t healthy