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Originally Posted by Rwirish
God forbid TV moves to metal roofs.
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Have you seen any of the new metal roofs that look like regular shingles? At a casual glance you don't even notice that it is metal. With an expected life span of 40 to 70 years it makes a lot of sense.
I lived in Tennessee for 34 years and there are many very old houses with the old style flat metal roofs that have been on the house since it was built 50 or 60 years ago. Tennessee has it's share of tornados and straight line winds and those old roofs handled it quite well where as asphalt shingles were another story.
We had a metal covered roof pavilion in the back yard, 20 feet by about 12 feet. We had a severe straight line storm come through one night. Something like 75 houses, including ours, had to have new roofs, all were asphalt shingle. Our pavilion was blown down as were 8 large trees in the back yard. Not one sheet of metal came lose.
As I stated, the new metal roofs aren't the flat or corrugated barn roof metal, they are stamped with a regular shingle pattern and look just as good as an asphalt shingle roof. Apparently some like to replace their roofs every 10 or 15 years.