The Woodshed

In this post I will show you how I gave my old cedar roof shingles a new lease of life using a preservative and water-repellant stain treatment.

As I learned the hard way, cedar shingle roofs can deteriorate prematurely. Here are the problems to watch out for and the maintenance needed to get the best out of them.

After seventeen years of neglect my shingle roof needed a thorough clean. Here are the techniques that worked for me.

In the first post in this series I look at how cedar shingle roofs have weathered in my garden over 15+ years, and how maintenance could extend their useful life much further.