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Originally Posted by Carlsondm
Can a metal roof install meet the 150 plus mph design standards. That is the answer I need. I see too many news reports where metal roofs blow off. Not my fav projectile. Perhaps this is an issue because of housing density.
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It depends on the pitch, the quality of the metal, the quality of the screws, the workmanship of the roofers, the structural integrity of your house, whether or not you have soffits and/or gutters, or trees with branches that hang over the roof and might "catch" on an edge, etc. etc. etc. Same as any other roof.
Here in The Villages it's not likely you'll ever see 150mph gusts. Oddly enough, a neighbor had a metal roof over their lanai, and it ripped completely off the corner of the lanai. However, it was a house that had been abandoned for many years and was in horrible shape when the new owners bought it. They've completely gutted and renovated the house but hadn't gotten to the roof yet when the storm came.
Meanwhile across the street at my house, we had one soffit edge dislodged, and it took around 5 minutes to put it back in place. The roof was fine, no damage of any kind. The house next door to use had damage to the gutters on the side of their house, one of them was dangling down to the ground. Two streets over, some lady lost half her membrane roof. It just folded right back against the other half.
This was all around 80mph gusts, if I remember right. Steady wind didn't go over 50.