Anybody have any experience or thoughts on metal residential roofing. I live in Massachusetts in a colonial style house. I’m in the process of having the current asphalt shingled roof replaced and am wondering if a metal roof is a good option.
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It's noisy in a hail storm.
Jim
Experience is the key to a quality job. Guys that fuck up flashing on a simple asphalt shingle job will fail in this attempt. With a metal roof, the whole thing is flashing and counter flashing. Done right and it will last generations. The farms around here showed roofs lasting a hundred years. Barring blow off or puncture, their only enemy was black roof goop and roof "coatings".
the high potential for condensation needs detailing. Dormers and chimney penetrations take some work. Flashing those goes beyond just tucking in some steps. New construction makes it easier to detail siding, brick and counter flashing.
The look of it certainly can complement your colonial, though wood shingles might be more Bostonian.
from a campground outside beautiful Lexington, Kentucky.
Metal Roof
Thank you for explaining the required details of doing it right. I guess I'll just go with the architectural asphalt....wood would probably pricey and the house is sort of in a wind tunnel.
How's retirement?
Jim
II don't want to talk you out of it, just find somebody that has the education and you'll get a long lasting job.
Here's what I'm finding out re. Retirement.
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if I'm not carefully, it'll start costing me money. My wife will retire in August . That should be way cool. She'll keep me on track.
Metal Roof
You didn't talk me out of it. I mentioned it to my wife and showed her a picture of a metal roof.....the look on her face talked me out of it.
Is your wife looking forward to retirement? Got lots of things planned? Trips, etc?
A different option is metal shingles. They go on sorta like regular shingles (only interlocking) and look sorta like regular shingles (or maybe a little closer to slate). Claimed advantages, as I recall, are long life and fire resistance. And some folks like the look.
If the cost is a factor as you mentioned with wood, then metal will be almost as unattractive financially. You can get cheaply made products installed cheaply with all sorts of big boxy components that leave your house looking like Howard Johnson's (maybe a regional joke/reference), or you can spend top dollar having all the metal rolled and seamed beautifully by true artisans. This costs big bucks. On my new house the 16 squares of lifetime architecturals cost me $2600.00 installed, while the 8'x8' cupola and 3'x24' shed roof overhang cost me $7000.00 for standing seam galvalume. And those were "deals" by my roofing sub that does all of my work.