We recently received a question to our Ask Mike section of the website. Here readers can submit questions for our Installation Manger, Mike Malone. See his answer on the time frame required for roof replacement and please let us know if you have a question too or think you might need your roof replaced. What is […]
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Cleaning Your Cedar Roof is Not Enough
Cleaning A Cedar Roof If your cedar roof appears faded, stained, dirty or moss covered you may be interested in cedar roof cleaning. A properly cleaned cedar roof is both beautiful and durable, with a higher wind and impact resistance and better insulation value than other roofing materials. Cedar is also naturally rot-resistant and can […]
Now You’re Cooking with Cedar
Now You’re Cooking with Cedar Cedar Roofing: Durable, Sustainable…Edible? With summer grilling season in full swing, we thought we would share a few of our favorite recipes. Okay, so the shakes and shingles themselves aren’t edible but they DO add flavor to all manner of grilled foods. Cedar plank grilling is a common method used in […]
Modern Home Design with Composite Cedar
A modern home design requires the use of the best materials, ones that offer the beauty of nature with the performance of new technology. For those who want to enjoy the charm of cedar on their home without the maintenance, Enviroshake composite cedar roofing replicates the curb appeal of real cedar while continuing to offer […]
Cedar Secrets – See What is Hidden In These Old Barns
Barn Raising Being “raised in a barn,” was meant to insinuate that one had bad manners but clearly the inventor of this term had not seen some of the beautiful barn conversions completed by today’s architects and craftsmen. Old barns have been known to hide many treasures but none so great as these amazing renovations (Images […]
The Making of Cedar Shakes and Shingles
Just caught a Season Four re-run of Mike Rowe at a cedar mill in Washington state. In the episode, the owner of the mill featured actually states, “We use wood no one else wants!” While the show offers a great demonstration of the process it also illustrates why we say “All Wood Is Not Created Equal!” When correctly […]
Cedar in the City – How 8 Million People Use Cedar Daily
We write so much about how durable cedar roofing is, how rot-resistant cedar roofing is, how sustainable cedar roofing is, what a high R-Value cedar roofing has, that maybe you are tired of hearing it from us. Well, don’t just take our word for it; cedar is also the material of choice for another rooftop […]
The Benefits of Composite Cedar Roofing
Homeowners with any type of roof can get the beautiful look of cedar without the maintenance. Cedar is a natural, beautiful and durable roofing material that can add value to a home with its many benefits. Certainly it is a classic choice used in the construction of some of the country’s oldest and most elegant […]
How to Select the Best Cedar Roofing Products
The Story of Cedar – Four companies travel to British Columbia to explore the origins of Western Red Cedar This article was previously published in Suburban Life magazine, September 2012 “Want to head in?” asked Vic Carrao, captain and owner of STS Guiding Service in Mission, British Columbia. It had been a long day fishing on […]
Did your Cedar Roof Not Live Up to Its Promises?
Poor Quality Cedar Leads to Roof Failure This excerpt is from an article previously published in Suburban Life magazine, September 2012 According to Mark Carroll of Capital Forest Products, in the 1980s, the Mid-Atlantic market was exposed to a considerable amount of off-grade wood. By using lesser-quality logs, cutting with less precision and packing to […]
