Cedarworks, Inc.

Cedarworks, Inc. — trading as Cedarworks Cape Cod — is an exterior construction and remodeling contractor based in Brewster and Eastham on the Mid and Outer Cape. Its own website describes the work as cedar and asphalt roofing, cedar shingle and clapboard siding, and exterior projects such as doors, windows, sliders, skylights and custom decks, from storage sheds up to coastal houses. The company says owner Chris Yerkes has more than twenty years of experience and personally manages his crews on every project; the site's footer runs from 2005, and a Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau page carries a first-person account of starting out alone in 2002. The company holds Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration 176751, verified active in the state registry, and its website also lists a Construction Supervisor's License, CS-104167, which has not been checked against a registry. The site states the company is certified by the Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau, calls itself the bureau's exclusive cedar roof warranty provider in Massachusetts, and offers a 20-year limited lifetime warranty with every cedar roof it installs — all the company's own claims. Customer feedback is small but consistently positive: Google shows 4.9 stars from 8 ratings, and the three written reviews on file, from 2022 to 2025, are all five stars. In a 2025 review a homeowner said Chris showed thorough knowledge of his craft on a phone call and patiently walked them through simple maintenance steps; in a 2023 review a customer described a ridge cap repair at a reasonable price with the site cleaned up afterward; and in a 2022 review a homeowner said the crew patched a roof quickly and they would call again. A 2023 Town of Chatham document describes a project to strip an existing roof and replace it with western red cedar shingles, and the company has been named on a Cape Cod subreddit when residents were pointed to local cedar contractors. The main thing to know is how thin the written history is — three reviews across four years, mostly small repairs rather than full roof or siding jobs, so for a larger project it is worth asking for recent local references. Cedarworks looks like the right call for cedar roofing and shingle siding on the Cape, especially where the cedar-bureau warranty matters; confirm the CSL number, the warranty terms in writing, and the current schedule before booking.