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Well we've decided to put a new roof on our house. Have been talking to a metal roof contractor. (Looks like shakes...not the flat kind)

Does anyone have a metal roof? Do you like it? Do you think it was worth the extra money?

VERY few metal roofs in CO, Nancy. Sorry, not much help.

nutmeg wrote:Well we've decided to put a new roof on our house. Have been talking to a metal roof contractor. (Looks like shakes...not the flat kind)

Does anyone have a metal roof? Do you like it? Do you think it was worth the extra money?

I'll call Dad tommorow..

nutmeg wrote:Well we've decided to put a new roof on our house. Have been talking to a metal roof contractor. (Looks like shakes...not the flat kind)

Does anyone have a metal roof? Do you like it? Do you think it was worth the extra money?

My parents recently bought a house with a metal roof and it is nice when it snows because the sun is usually strong enough that all of the snow melts and falls off the roof. Only problem that I know of is that there weren't enough vents for the roof and moisture was being trapped, which caused a few water spots in the house. But they just added a lot more vents and the water spots stopped.

Metal roofs? What an age we live in

We have shingles here

prrthd1987 wrote:Metal roofs? What an age we live in

We have shingles here

I'd never seen it before either...the house is little under 20 yrs old but the metal roof looks really nice on it. who woulda thought

I don't know anything about metal roofs, but some people in the area have a RED one with a yellow house....colorful

springparrot wrote:I don't know anything about metal roofs, but some people in the area have a RED one with a yellow house....colorful

Hey I grew up in a beige colored house with red tinted shingles on the roof!

nutmeg wrote:Well we've decided to put a new roof on our house. Have been talking to a metal roof contractor. (Looks like shakes...not the flat kind)

Does anyone have a metal roof? Do you like it? Do you think it was worth the extra money?

I don't know much about them, but I like the look of many of them. I notice that much of the new construction and roof replacements after Ophelia hit last year, at the coast are these metal roofs.

Do they have some sound barrier? I remember old tin roof cottages when I was growing up, and those things were just NOISY when it rained....never mind being in one during a hail storm!

If you have decided to put a new roof on,metal is the only way to go.
Talk withn your roof contractor and he can recomend what is best for your part of the country, you can have snow gaurds added if snow is a problem or the have a new kynar finshed roof that stays cooler if heat is a problem.
You are going to love your new metal roof.

What part of the country do you live in? Is severe hail an issue? Do you have summer thunderstorms that bring high and intense winds? Roofing systems have various application guidelines that MUST be followed for the roof to perform as it was designed to. UNFORTUNATELY, the majority of the problems with the roofing system are directly associated with the contractor that installed it. Find out how long your contractor has been installing the metal roof system you chose. It’s great the contractor’s been in the roofing business for 85 years, but not so great if he just started installing metal roofs six months ago and your house will be his 4th overall system. Also, call the manufacturer of the system you want and ask them for the name of a few Qualified Applicators of the products. Ask who’s been installing them the longest. And finally, don’t get over excited about the warranty. What the big print giveth, the small print taketh away. Say you have a wind event and you roof is significantly damaged. You call to file a warranty claim and the manufacturer’s rep comes out to look at the roof and SHAZAM, “Lookie here Mr. and Mrs. Homeowner. The contractor did not follow our guidelines. If you read our Limited Warranty agreement, you will notice that improper installation voids your warranty.” Check with your states contractor’s licensing board to see if there’s ever been a judgment brought against the contractor you want to work with.

If you live in a warm climate, you’ll want to pay a little more for a Cool Metal roof. These products are manufactured with highly reflective infrared pigments that keep the metal cooler. Metal are typically low emissive materials. That simply means they hold heat long after the source, in this case the sun, has been removed. Think about working outside on the car on a nice sunny day. Your nice and shiny wrench is laying there next to you and al the sudden you can not hold the wrench because it’s too hot to touch. Metal roofs work in a similar manner. You do not want to pay higher utility bills because of your new roof.

Thanks folks! We're headed off this weekend to see some of the roofs installed in a nearby city. I've only seen the flat seamed kind. These are supposed to look like wood shakes. (They're aluminum)

nutmeg wrote:Thanks folks! We're headed off this weekend to see some of the roofs installed in a nearby city. I've only seen the flat seamed kind. These are supposed to look like wood shakes. (They're aluminum)

OK I talked to Dad, for snow country it depends on the pitch of the
roof. also no walking on the roof after it's installed..

My hubby and I just had a standing seam metal roof installed on our house at the beach in North Carolina. It's a second home (we live 200 miles away), and after years and years of worrying about the place when we're away and having to climb up on the roof after storms to repair/replace conventional shingles, we decided to spring for what my hubby calls "the final solution to an ongoing problem.

Metal roofs are very expensive, roughly two to three times what a conventional roof replacement would cost, but, it our minds, it's well worth it. We felt we were paying a certain price for piece of mind. We hired a contractor that does the majority of their work in the Outer Banks and they have never had a roof fail. The roof is a material called Galvalume with a high-tech paint finish. Although we are not right on the water, rust is a concern for us. We are told this material and finish will perform well and we should see marked energy savings, both in the winter and summer. After watching the system we chose being installed, I really cannot see how it could ever fail. It's a clip system.....kinda hard to explain but we have no exposed screws penetrating the metal panels. We also have a membrane roofing type material installed directly to the roof decking under the panels. When the screws for the clips holding the panels penetrate the membrane, the membrane forms a seal around each screw. I really see no way we could ever have a leak. We had some storms up there last week and the metal is quieter during rain than the old roof was. I haven't heard any hail yet but I would think that if it's quieter when it's raining, the same would hold true for hail.

Sorry if this was a little lengthy......I just wanted to respond since we just had a metal roof installed a few weeks ago. So far, we absolutely love it, and I haven't even touched on how great it makes the place look! We chose Carolina blue for our color.

dawgfan wrote:If you have decided to put a new roof on,metal is the only way to go.
Talk withn your roof contractor and he can recomend what is best for your part of the country, you can have snow gaurds added if snow is a problem or the have a new kynar finshed roof that stays cooler if heat is a problem.
You are going to love your new metal roof.

Yeah, Kynar.....that's the name of the paint finish....I couldn't remember what it was called. And incidentally, it was Ophelia that caused us to make the final decision to switch to metal. Lots of water stains on some of our ceilings from that nasty wicked little storm!