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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
At my previous home, I built a pavilion in my back yard and used metal roofing, the ones with ribs, from Lowe's for the roof. It is typical metal roofing everyone knows about, not fancy or decorative, just functional. This isn't roofing most people would use on their home. After 10 years there was no fading of the color. This was in Tennessee and the summer sun there is quite intense.
Did you not read my previous post on noise from metal roofs? You can have insulating material under the metal that negates the noise from rain and hail.
As far as water erosion, have you not heard of rain gutters? My house in TV didn't have gutters when we bought it, so I had them installed to negate any water problems with the slab foundation. Even with asphalt shingles you should have gutters.
Yes, there should be a lower labor cost as a metal roof is much faster to install. Do real research on the new metal roofing being used, this ain't 1940.
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To be clear I’m not for or against the more expensive option. I lived farther north in Michigan and also had a metal roof. The paint did fade after about 4 years, but we had a dark gray. I’m just wondering how a roof would be determined to be too faded here. Our major issue was ice dams, it was the reason we had it installed. Yes, our roof was louder but our home was almost 4,000 square feet too. I’m not sure if it was because they placed it over our shingles or not.
Metal roofs would be OK I guess if you paid the extra for some insulation it mitigated the noise problem. Also all homes that had the roofing could be forced to install 6 inch gutters. That would be a good thing. For sure though we don’t need mix matched neighborhoods with all different styles. Either the whole neighborhood is metal roofed or it isn’t. I suspect that would be your main sticking point with Community Standards.