We have a lot of metal roofs now here in northwest Iowa. People are getting fed up with asphalt. The coating on the #1 steel is pretty darned good today and will last many years. I put metal on our house ten years ago and I've never been sorry. It's plain old flat ribbed barn steel. I was afraid it'd make the house look like an old tin roofed shack but it turned out just the opposite.
We have an old two story farm house with a steep pitch and short slope on the old part and flatter longer sloped pitch on the new parts. The old part has the one layer of wood and two layers of asphalt, which I left on. I just nailed down 2X4's every 24" with 60D ring shanks and screwed the steel on. Still looks great after being up there for ten years. The 2X4's are laid down just below the old shingle overlap to keep them flat so the 24" spacing varies a little.I'd do it again in a heartbeat. If the rain comes down real hard there's a rumble in the single story office part of the house, but usually we don't hear it. Jim
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