Wood Shake Single Roof

[Chase UW]

Do the agencies have any issues with this type of roof?

 

[JTip]

How about a picture?

 

[Riick]

AFAIK... Any type of roofing material that works is acceptable; I don't remember ever reading anything in Fannie's guidelines that spoke to roofing materials.
Wood shake, usually cedar in my experience, is common in some areas
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[Restrain]

Feds, no. However I know some cities, states prohibit new or replacement wood shake roofs due to fire hazard. Also big insurance bumps

 

[residentialguy]

Love wood shake roofs

 

[Elliott]

Why would the 'agencies' have an issue with cedar shake roofs? I have two houses with shake roofs, they are very long lasting, if well maintained. They look good. They weather storms better (I have a house in a snow zone and when there was a super hard freeze, the metal roofs got twisted off, not my shake roof).

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

Not allowed here due to fire hazard. There's a few old ones around, but they will need some other material when the time comes.

 

[timd354]

Do the agencies have any issues with this type of roof?

Why would they? They are very common in some areas and a good cedar shake roof will last 50 years

 

[timd354]

AFAIK... Any type of roofing material that works is acceptable; I don't remember ever reading anything in Fannie's guidelines that spoke to roofing materials.
Wood shake, usually cedar in my experience, is common in some areas
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Extremely common in most east coast beach towns, including the Delaware beaches...cedar shake roofs are great for the beach due to their ability withstand high winds.

 

[Davy]

Growing up we had a shake roof on the house. My dad never had to replace it while we lived there (Lake Tahoe, CA). I'm not sure of the laws and regulations now since we no longer live in CA. I imagine that you can get a composition shingle roof hot enough that it will burn, right? Probably be harder to put that out in a fire than wood shingles, but be more difficult to get burning.