Posted by NE IA on October 23, 2008 at 17:48:24 from (206.72.18.153):
In Reply to: Metal Roof ? posted by Genos on October 22, 2008 at 20:30:24:
Been metal roofing and shingling since about 1964. I have yet to have any complaint on a metal roof and only once with shingles.
That being said I shingled my house roof last time because the ex wife wanted shingles. And that by the way was when shingles were still good quality. There is no way On this green earth I would ever shingle my house roof. If anyone is interested in 40-50 year shingles I sure got some other good deals for them if they are stupid enough to get the check book out. I will metal roof regardless of the cost, and that is up about 44% from Jan first.
The ONLY way we will metal roof is it has to be stripped out with 2" lumber. We can't find a company that will guarentee if you go over shingles and not fur it out. Besides you have a 99% chance of denting the metal by drawing the screw down into a dip part of a shingle or finding a soft spot. Anyone that has wood shingles below the metal roof (without furing) can assume that no one knows where the spaces are between the sheathing boards except superman and his exray vision. Never met anyone else personaly.
Metal roofs do get alot of bum raps, and so do shingles. Ever hear...they sure did a good job! My question is do you realy know what a good job is even if you actualy did get up on the roof?
Fixing metal roofs is like fixing a window that has the glass busted out---often time to start over, and this time your laid off brother in law can just go fishing if he realy wants to help you instead of putting your metal roof on.
We will not metal any roof without ICE STOPS.
We also on one roof for a farmers hog house (lean to on barn) used calking instead of our double adhesive tape. He wanted to make sure that the seams did not leak. Tornado took the barn down and left the lean to pretty much in order. He tore the roof off and found that the calk had ruined the metal, and caused a cancer of it. It would have leaked in a few years no doubt.
It needs to be said that either you like steel roofing or you doun't---there seems to be no in between ground. Most metal roofs leak because of the contractor---not the metal roofing.
We stopped even trying to use standing seam as I have seen many that the wind has lifted and played with them. I have been more that lucky, and knock on wood. But I think shingles are on their way out around here anyway.
We haven't had good luck with metal ceilings in hog houses regardless of the quality or ventalation claims by the salesmen that make their comission on the ventalation ---(magic word) SYSTEM. I know anytime you hear the word system, you can guess you are buying into a retirment plan for the salesman.
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