Wood shake repair · Free estimates
Cedar Shake Roofers in Littleton, CO
When cedar shakes split, cup or go soft, we pull the bad ones and set new ones in their place. The felt under every failed shake gets a look too, and the whole job is quoted before we start.
Free and no obligation. We answer or call back the same working day.
Course by course
Who you are calling
Cedar Shake Roofers in Littleton
At Mountain Range Roofing we work as cedar shake roofers for residential and commercial owners in Littleton and the towns around it, on houses and business buildings alike.
A shake roof rewards a careful hand. Scattered bad shakes come out one at a time without disturbing the sound ones, and when too much of the roof has gone, we say so plainly instead of patching what will not hold.
Call and tell us what you see from the yard: split shakes, curled edges, dark soft spots or green growth along a course. We pick up Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm, and calls outside those hours go to voicemail and get returned the next working morning.
The estimate costs nothing and carries no obligation.
Weathered beside new
What weather does to wood
How Wood Shake Roofs Wear
Wood shakes split, cup and rot as they weather, and dry rot can weaken the wood by half even when the damage looks minor.
- Split
Sun and years of wetting and drying open the grain until a shake cracks through, and water runs into the gap beneath it.
- Cupped
A shake that dries faster on top than underneath curls at its edges, lifts off the course below and lets wind-driven rain in.
- Rotted
Where moss, needles or leaves hold moisture at the butts, the wood turns dark and soft. That is "dry rot", and it keeps working under shakes that still look whole.
From the ground, look for shakes sitting higher than their neighbors, pale fresh cracks and green growth on the lower edges. Those are the spots we check first.
How a shake repair goes
Replacing Split and Rotted Shakes
Split and rotted shakes are pulled out and new ones slipped in and fastened, and the underlayment is checked wherever the old ones failed.
- Walk and mark
We walk the roof and mark every shake that is split, cupped past saving or soft, so the quote names each one.
- Pull the failed shakes
Each bad shake is split out and its nails cut free, without prying up the sound shakes around it.
- Check the felt beneath
The "underlayment", the felt laid between courses, is looked at under every gap and patched where water got through.
- Slip in and fasten
A new shake slides up into the gap, spaced from its neighbors and nailed where the course above will hide the heads.
What sets the price
A shake repair is priced by how many shakes come out, the pitch and how hard the roof is to reach, and any rot found underneath. Fixing a problem now is usually cheaper than fixing it after the next storm, and the exact figure comes from a look at your roof.
Quoted in full before we start.
When a shake roof is replaced
Composite Shake Alternatives
Composite tiles made to look like shake, from makers such as DaVinci and Brava, are an alternative when a wood shake roof is replaced.
Keep the wood, swap the shakes
When the failures are scattered and the rest of the roof is sound, replacing only the bad shakes keeps the cedar look you already have.
- Natural cedar stays. New shakes weather toward the color of the old ones.
- Only what failed. Sound shakes stay where they are.
- Felt checked at each gap. Water damage under a shake gets found, not covered.
Composite shake tile
A composite tile is molded to the shape and texture of a shake. It goes on when the whole roof is replaced, not one piece at a time.
- No wood to fail. Nothing to split, cup or rot.
- Other looks too. The same makers offer slate and clay styles.
- A full roof job. Priced as a replacement, not a repair.
We walk the roof and tell you which of the two fits it, with the written quote in your hand.
Google review
From a neighbor
A homeowner left this on Google after a repair following a hail storm, in their own words.
We clean up when the work is done.
Upstanding citizen and did an excellent job repairing my roof after the recent hail storm. Dave is a great guy and got my roof done in a timely manner and I couldn’t be happier!
More roof work
Related Roof Work
Roof replacement and each of our other roof services have their own page, with what the work involves and when it is the right call.
Roof replacement
When too many shakes have failed to swap one at a time, a roof replacement starts over from the deck. Our roof replacement page walks through the tear-off and what moves its cost.
roof replacement in LittletonBad shakes? We'll swap them.
Call and tell us what you see from the yard. We walk the roof, mark every shake that has to go and quote the whole job before we start.
We show up when we say we will, and the old shakes leave with us.