The Cedar Homeowner’s Guide to Treating and Maintaining your Cedar Home

Have you noticed changes to your Cedar cladding? Does it look tired, worn, dirty, or like it needs a good wash when you compare it to other houses on the street?

Download the guide to learn how to maintain your Cedar over the lifecycle of your home and keep your cladding looking beautiful for years to come!

Does Your Cedar Need Help?

To get a quick health check of your Cedar, walk around the entire house and compare your cladding against the scale below.

If your house looks dull, is fading or silvering (stages 1-2), your Cedar requires maintenance. If your Cedar has passed this point (stages 3 onwards), it requires restoration.

Cedar is ‘low-maintenance’ but it’s not ‘no-maintenance’. To protect your home - your most valuable asset - and to keep it looking beautiful year-round, exposed areas should be treated at least once every two years.

If you choose to leave it, problems will compound and you may need to replace the Cedar completely if cracks or splits get too wide. A costly solution to an avoidable problem!

What Kind of Treatment Does Your Cedar Need?

For most Cedar homes, a wash and oil will be enough to treat or rejuvenate your cladding and bring faded Cedar back to life!

1WASH

First, a low-pressure chemical wash should be used to remove oxidised coatings, mould and lichen. Avoid using a domestic-grade water blaster as without professional training it's likely to damage the Cedar which is a naturally soft wood.

2 COLOUR

Keep your Cedar natural or choose a colour from our wide selection of stains to get just the look you want. Mimic untreated Cedar with Kauri Gum, go darker with grey Flint or black with Foundry, or go lighter with a white Damper. The choice is yours.

3 OIL

Oil works like moisturiser for Cedar, deeply replenishing the natural oils extracted by the sun and keeping it protected. Depending on the condition of your Cedar, different amounts of oil will need to be applied to different areas of the property.

Want to know more?

Get the Cedar Homeowner's Guide to Learn:

+ What makes Cedar so special.
+ What the real enemies of your timber are (and what you can do about it).
+ The 3 costliest mistakes you can make when it comes to maintaining your Cedar.

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Or, if you want our team to take care of it all:

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Like You, We Love Cedar!

TimberTech are NZ’s #1 choice for Cedar protection, maintenance and restoration. Our unrivalled expertise and craftsmanship have been developed and proven over 20 years throughout New Zealand. You can count on us to add extraordinary value to your property and guarantee to leave you completely satisfied with the results.

Read what our happy customers have to say...

" TimberTECH transformed our dried-out Cedar house back to the house we knew when we first built it: it’s got the wow-factor again! The team were highly professional, worked long hours and would always leave the place spotless each night. I’d strongly recommend them with a 10/10. "

Pip O’halloran

" The quality of their work is excellent and they clean up thoroughly when they’re done. Working with TimberTECH is easy, business-like and realistic. I couldn’t be happier! "

Jan Kennington, Principal, Wilson School

" TimberTECH’s service was outstanding. We have dealt with a lot of tradespeople and our Cedar technician was by far the best tradesperson we’ve ever dealt with. We’d give TimberTECH a 10/10: we can’t find fault with anything."

Robert Carter, Harcourts