Wood shake replacement · Utah

Your shake roof, done the way it should be.

Cedar shake doesn't come off like asphalt, and it doesn't go back on like asphalt either. Here are two Utah roofs we tore off and rebuilt — dragged side by side so you can see the difference for yourself.

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A steep cedar shake roof with curled, weathered shakes, mountains behind

A shake tear-off is not a shingle tear-off

If a bid for your cedar roof looks suspiciously close to a normal re-roof, something is missing from it. Usually it's one of these three things.

There's no plywood under it

Cedar shake was nailed to spaced 1x4 boards with gaps between them, so the roof could breathe. Nothing modern can be nailed to that. The deck gets sheeted over before a single shingle or shake goes down — and that work belongs in the scope, not on a change order.

It's a heavier tear-off

Shake is thick, often laid over felt and spaced boards, and it comes off in layers. That's more weight, more dump runs, and more hours on the roof than pulling asphalt. We price it that way up front instead of finding it halfway through.

Carriers treat shake differently

A shake roof that's simply worn out gets denied as wear and tear. Hail and wind damage to cedar is a different conversation, and it has to be documented the way an adjuster needs to see it. That's the part we do for you.

Two we've done

Every photo below came off our crew's cameras on these two jobs. Nothing staged, nothing borrowed.

The same cottage from the front walk, five weeks apart — worn gray cedar on the left, new tapersawn cedar on the right.

Ephraim, Utah

Cedar shake, replaced with cedar shake

A historic cottage whose owner wanted the roof to look exactly like it always had — only new.

The original cedar was curled at the butts, split through the middle of the shakes, and holding moss in the keyways. Underneath it was original spaced decking with gaps you could see daylight through.

We took it down to the boards, sheeted the whole roof so it had a solid nailable deck, and then hand-laid new tapersawn cedar shake over it. On a 12/12 pitch, every course is set by hand from a roof jack.

Same roofline, same material, another few decades of life. Finished September 2025.

Material: New 5" tapersawn cedar shake
Deck: Full re-sheet over spaced decking
Pitch: 12/12 — hand-laid, roof jacks
Ventilation: Ridge vent

Curled and split cedar shakes with debris caught in the keyways — Curled, split, and holding debris

The cottage roof stripped and re-sheeted with new decking — Stripped and re-sheeted

Crew members hand-laying new cedar shake courses on the roof — New cedar going on by hand

Close view of the finished tapersawn cedar shake courses — Finished tapersawn cedar

Weathered gray cedar shake running up to a brick chimney on a Provo home — The cedar half of this roof, and the same slope finished in architectural shingle.

The cedar half of this roof, and the same slope finished in architectural shingle.

Provo, Utah

Half shake, half asphalt — one new roof

Two roofs on one house: original cedar shake on one section, aging three-tab on the other.

Houses like this show up more than you'd think. Somebody re-roofed half of it years ago and left the cedar where it was, so the home had two different roofs aging at two different rates.

The storm damage was covered by the homeowner's carrier. We tore off both sections, replaced the decking wherever it had gone soft, ran a ridge vent for real attic airflow, and brought the whole roof back as one system.

Finished in IKO Dynasty, Frostone Grey, across 25 squares. Completed May 2025.

Was: Cedar shake + 3-tab asphalt
Now: IKO Dynasty, Frostone Grey
Size: 25 squares, 4/12 pitch
Ventilation: Ridge vent

Split and eroded cedar shake beside an old skylight — Cedar past its life

Tear-off underway with underlayment and shingle bundles staged — Down to the deck

Cedar shake meeting the brick chimney before the tear-off — Chimney, before

Aerial view of the completed grey shingle roof in Provo — Finished, from the air

How yours would go

We get on the roof

A free inspection that tells you what you actually have: how much life is left in the cedar, what the decking looks like, and whether there's storm damage a carrier should be paying for.

We build the file

If it's a claim, we document it and handle the adjuster. If it isn't, we give you a straight replacement number with the re-deck already in it — no mid-job surprise.

We build the roof

Permits, materials, and a crew that has done this before. Cedar back on, or asphalt or metal if you'd rather stop maintaining wood. Five-year workmanship warranty either way.

Wondering what's left in your cedar?

We'll climb it, tell you honestly how much life it has, and check whether there's storm damage your carrier should be covering. It costs nothing, and if the roof is fine we'll say so.

(385) 327-7579

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