Slate Vs Cedar Shake Roof

Cedar shake roofing alternative.

Slate vs cedar shake roof.

Natural movement is designed into our product to give your roof the natural cedar shake appearance. Synthetic shake and shingles are polymer based material or a combination of plastic and rubber. That is a cost which can only be figured by understanding your structure. Our polymer shingles have all of the true to life natural beauty and rustic split textures of real cedar combined with the incredible benefits of a composite roofing material.

Our composite roofing products last longer are far more durable and much more aesthetically and architecturally pleasing than asphalt shingles concrete tiles or slate shake and clay tiles. Both cedar shake and slate are upscale alternatives to asphalt shingle. When searching for a cedar shake roof alternative brava s synthetic shake roofing tiles should be at the top of your list. On average a cedar roof can cost 12 000 25 000 depending on whether you select wood shingles or shakes grain quality style and other factors.

Brava composite tile is the best alternative to traditional spanish clay tile natural slate and cedar shake roofing. Cedur shakes offer the same aesthetic appeal of hand split cedar shake. Cedar shingles shakes cost vs. Our shakes are molded from real cedar meaning our grain patterns shadow lines and texture are true to life.

Premium performance davinci s unique composite construction outperforms natural slate and cedar shake with a class a fire rating class 4 impact rating and a 110 mph wind rating. Cedur shakes may be installed in a straight course or staggered. They are used on roofs where homeowners desire the classic look of wood or natural slate with the added benefits from the synthetic blends. Hduns cedar shakes are found on typically more rustic style homes while slate being more expensive was usually found on grander homes.

Our tiles sublime unified color is factory collated along with the correct proportions of our 10 7 1 2 and 5 shake widths to give you the ideal shake roof. Davinci products are modeled from actual slate and hand split shake for natural non repeating beauty and decades of enduring and worry free beauty. Plastic laminate wood real thing. 750 weathered grey 751 cedar brown 752 new cedar.

In the roofing industry an 18 inch wood shingle is referred to as perfection and 24 inch wide shingles are known as royal a wood shake is a premium product costing around 3 50 per square foot versus 2 50 a square foot for wood shingles. Cedar cedar real thing. Wood shake and shingle roofs are not the same when it comes to durability longevity and protection against the elements.