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I have to replace about 1/8th of the shingles on a house. The shingles are red cedar, are 16″ long and appear to be 50 to 60 years old. I have found 16″ long red cedar shingles, but the saw kirf pattern on the new shingles in notably different than the old. Any thoughts on how I might hunt down a closer replacement would be greatly appreciated. Are there Cedar shingle specialist companies?
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Walt,
You could be up a creek. Yes there are cedar shingle specialty companies, but your style of shingle may be out of production after that much time.
I'd search the net if you haven't already.
Good luck,
Ed.
*walt.... nothing you put on will match 60 year old shingles... stop worrying ... be happy..nail 'em up...
*Cedar shingles have been produced at thousands of local mills in the last 60 years. The odds in your favor are about .00001743%Sorry.
*Walt, I just tore some old red cedar shingles off a house, they've got some paint on them and nail holes and a few splits, but I'll sell them to you real cheap. Seriously, when you say the "saw kerf pattern" is different, do you mean the size of the circular saw marks on the face? On the red cedar R&R shingles I use there is almost no saw pattern. Mike
*I was referring to both the size and and the depth of the kirf marks. Funny that you should mention that the shingles that you use have almost no saw kirf marks....I have now spoken to a number of shingle manufactures and they tell me that the techniques and machinery for sawing shingels was much less presice than it is today, so now you are less likely to find the kirf marks (which they consider to me a defect...or at least try to minimize). Apparently, when they start to see prominant kirf marks they change out the saw blade because something has chipped or nicked a tooth. I've come to the conclusion that I will just have to find the most "kirfed" shingles in the pile at my local lumber yard. Thanks for all of the input everyone.
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I have to replace about 1/8th of the shingles on a house. The shingles are red cedar, are 16" long and appear to be 50 to 60 years old. I have found 16" long red cedar shingles, but the saw kirf pattern on the new shingles in notably different than the old. Any thoughts on how I might hunt down a closer replacement would be greatly appreciated. Are there Cedar shingle specialist companies?