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07/22/05, 06:35 PM
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Metal Roofs (Rooves?)
The "metal vs. wood barn debate" brings up a question we're considering.
I'm leaning toward metal roof. I know they can be a bit noisy, but there's some noisy I enjoy.
Anyone here have a metal roof? How do you like it (or not)? What's the maintenance like?
Thanks,
Pony! (who is full of questions lately...)
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07/22/05, 06:56 PM
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I am putting one on my produce shed. It will be the second roof of metal I've had. The first one was on our house in Wyoming. It was great. It's only noise was if a tree branch scratched against it, or if rain hit it. But both were so little or so low in noise that we figured it was a treat.
The way we built it was trusses with 7/16 partical board on them, next 30 pound felt, then metal roofing.
The only BADDY was, I put rain gutters on it. "Wrong" thing to do!!! First snow fall that melted on roof, took them right out when the snow melted enough and started sliding off roof. Also watch what you have below the roof edges to fall on (shrubbery, flowers), snow will really pile up sometimes. I moved before we got to see the metal strips that we put on the roof edge to stop the sliding of the snow.
The great thing of metal is lasting and always looking good. In Wyoming we had very little humidity so rusting is almost non-existant. shadowwaler 
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07/22/05, 07:11 PM
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Our cabin has a metal roof and since it is well insulated we have no more problem with noise during rain than with a standard roof. It IS pretty awesome to hear a heavy snow load let go and start to slide off...even more so in the barn where the metal roof isn't insulated...wakes the horses up! We have no maintenance that I know of, and they are supposed to last for a long time.
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07/22/05, 07:18 PM
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When we needed a new roof we replaced it with steel..........very happy with it. I don't notice but a small increase in noise from rain but the snow coming off of it is an impressive noise. At first the dog and the cat both ran and tryed to hide. Eves can be a problem so on the addition we put the metal roof and no eves.....just a bit more overhang. On some of the older homes in our area the metal roofs have been on for over 100 years and seem to be still maintanence free. Ours is suppose to be as well. I love it and they really have some neat colors to chose from. We used colonial red to match our shutters and the house is a light gray. I really like how it looks.
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07/22/05, 07:26 PM
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Thanks for the input.
Another question: Is there a way to collect water? If you can't use gutters...?
Pony!
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07/22/05, 08:18 PM
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You can use gutters, but they need to be strong ones. Most gutters are pretty weakly built.
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07/22/05, 08:21 PM
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They generally cost a little more but tend to last forever if installed correctly. Many of the oldest houses in the little towns around here have their original metal shingle roofs that are 80-100 years old and still sound.
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07/22/05, 09:27 PM
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I think its going to matter how its installed. I have a metal roof in the barn over trusses. There is almost no support except at the trusses. The roof is VERY nosy. My home has a metal roof over slats and its a nice soothing sound.
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07/22/05, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by shadowwalker
I am putting one on my produce shed. It will be the second roof of metal I've had. The first one was on our house in Wyoming. It was great. It's only noise was if a tree branch scratched against it, or if rain hit it. But both were so little or so low in noise that we figured it was a treat.
The way we built it was trusses with 7/16 partical board on them, next 30 pound felt, then metal roofing.
The only BADDY was, I put rain gutters on it. "Wrong" thing to do!!! First snow fall that melted on roof, took them right out when the snow melted enough and started sliding off roof. Also watch what you have below the roof edges to fall on (shrubbery, flowers), snow will really pile up sometimes. I moved before we got to see the metal strips that we put on the roof edge to stop the sliding of the snow.
The great thing of metal is lasting and always looking good. In Wyoming we had very little humidity so rusting is almost non-existant. shadowwaler |
Dont worry Pony, you can use gutters if your roof is installed right. Just have your installer use these or the all metal ones 
These prevent the snow from sliding down all at once. Metal roofs are the best for rain collection because they are generally cleaner and no oil.
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07/22/05, 10:01 PM
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Oh that takes all the fun out of it! I like those unexpected avalanches. I'm weird.
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07/22/05, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by LisaInN.Idaho
Oh that takes all the fun out of it! I like those unexpected avalanches. I'm weird.
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07/22/05, 10:23 PM
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By the way, that ad is from "Metal Home Digest", a trade magazine.
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07/22/05, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Pony
Thanks for the input.
Another question: Is there a way to collect water? If you can't use gutters...?
Pony!
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While you got good advise on using snow blocking hardware, another way is to be sure the gutters are installed rather low - the sliding snow will go over the top without damage, but most of the rain will fall into them. Just another way to do it.
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07/22/05, 10:30 PM
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Come to think of it, there are also leaf and debri gaurds that go on the top of the gutter capping it, they are perforated allowing the water in but not other things. I imagine they would just let the snow slide right on over the gutter.
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07/23/05, 01:55 AM
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They generally cost a little more but tend to last forever if installed correctly. Many of the oldest houses in the little towns around here have their original metal shingle roofs that are 80-100 years old and still sound.
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We tore down Great Grandma's kitchen back in '88 it was built before the Great Depression, and the tin was rather in good shape! Imagine how long the new stuff last!
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07/23/05, 12:46 PM
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Tracy........got this message when I tryed to view your photos.
On the main part of our house, we have gutters that are both low and somewhat sheltered. We have them dumping into rain barrels. I think we could probably do the same thing on the addition, we just didn't bother with the expense.
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We had a metal roof put on our home a couple of years ago and we love it. We had a good friend that did the labor for a reasonable price. Yes we do hear the rain more in the kitchen and living room where we have a cathedral ceiling but it is a nice relaxing sound to me. In the winter the snow just melts right off of the roof. When we went to the bank to have it done they felt the metal roof was the best way to go. We live in a log home and put a forest green roof which looks nice.
Good luck deciding.
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We had a shingle roof on our house with gutters. Replaced it with standing ridge metal. No problems. Gutters till there. However, we don't have SNOW in South Texas....oh, wait, yes we did....last Christmas.... 18 inches of freak weather. Well, it melted off in three days, so we didn't have to worry about those other issues.
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Pictures of our metal roofing
Deleted the first post as pictures were not coming through.
We have a 130 year old farm house. The last 2 years all we have done is work on the house and out buildings. We just finished the siding and roofing on the house as well as redoing the pump house and milk house [now being used as a garden shed.] We also used the same metal for the end walls on our greenhouse. The plan is that eventually all the outbuildings and house will be the same color and all the metal roofing will be green. Only building left to do is the main barn. The siding is already tan but we will be redoing the roof in the hunter green hopefully this fall.
Still have landscaping to be done but if you would have seen this place 2 years ago you would not think it was the same property or house!
I will try posting more pictures later as it is taking forever to load.
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrow...der_id=1405524
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