Q We need a new roof before the rain starts, but we don’t know what to do because what we really want is cedar. Friends tell us this is too expensive and impractical, but we think it would look great ...

Dear Jerry: I had my 1965-built cedar-shingle house painted last summer. (I've only lived in the house for 11 years). Within a couple of months the east side of the house started to bubble. The ...

Ecoshel, the Ashland-based maker of cedar shingles, plans to move its red cedar shingle production to British Columbia. The County, the website for three Aroostook County newspapers owned by the ...

The painting of cedar shingles column last week elicited several replies. Here are two: Dear Jerry: I have a Cape Cod built 1947, cedar shingles; I like the look. The original paint and all the coats ...

On the easternmost edge of Long Island's South Fork, the weather is "unforgiving," said Montauk-based builder Jason Biondo. "The hot, the cold, the wind, the rain, the snow," detailed Biondo, who grew ...

Cedar shingles have got to be the most under-appreciated siding option going: long-lasting, beautiful and a pleasure to install. I know about these virtues first-hand. Besides the fact that I live in ...