Years back, I used to live in Romeoville, IL. The original section is comprised of something that they call "track housing". I never heard of that until I moved there. Originally, were only three style houses made, and they say were "affordable houses built in returning war soldiers in mind", and they all came with steel rooves. By the time I bought in 1990, not many steel rooves left, but are still some today. Those houses were built in the early 1950's, and I have to tell you, the grade of corregated steel used on them was some thick, quality stuff. Much thicker guage of galvanized steel than what I bought for my two tool sheds from Menards, and what is up on my newest barn. Does the thinner guage that I used make it worse? I have no idea. With technologies being what they are, maybe thinner of these days is better than thicker of then?
In any event, I have to think that if I had to put up another roof, I would seriously consider going steel. I've read here from time to time where some said no way because the rubber grommets around the screw head caps dry rot and leak over time, but those are original screws that I still see in those original steel rooves when I visit friends in Romeoville today, and the folks that still have them have no intentions of taking them down. Those rooves are like 60 years old and still going. One thing though. In heavy rains, noisier than shingles. My newest barn went up in 2004, screws don't leak. My two tool sheds are newer, no leaks.
On topic, and off topic, I had a friends brother that did construction that moved to Dallas a few decades ago and started his own construction company there. A fella, president of Coka-Cola bottlers in Dallas built some huge place, mansion status and wanted a copper roof and sent around asking for bids, got no responses except from the brother, whom had done rooves, never copper though, but he bidded on it and got the job because the guy absolutely wanted a copper roof. Turns out that the brother way under bid the job because he had no idea what he was getting into, and explained and showed the fella what he was running into and the costs involved. The guy understood, and wanted that copper roof. The brother ended up going way into hock, mortgaging everything he owned, home, company, trucks, equipment. BUT, when all was said and done, the fella got the roof that he wanted, paid for it, the brother learned what it took, and all of a sudden had wealthy people coming to him for copper rooves, and he got to the point that is all that he was doing. This was back in the days of that show "Dallas" when oil wealth and all was well in Dallas.
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