It’s time. What say yall?
Wannabe...
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It’s time. What say yall?
Wannabe...
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Metal if you can swing it.
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Metal,
If you go the other route, they have impact resistant shingles, will save you 25% on your insurance!
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It depends on where you live. If you live in the country, metal. If you live in a nice neighborhood where it won't look right, life time architectural shingles.
Metal if you can!
Always shingle!
I never live anywhere long enough to justify metal... but metal is the goal. They also make metal "shingles". From the streets of the big fancy neighborhoods you cant tell its metal at all.
I agree with county. Metal if you can afford it. I just did mine and went back with arcatectual shingles because that’s what I could afford. But would much prefere metal.
Seems the consensus is metal, but anybody care to explain why? I assume the metal will last longer, but 2 things make me worry - paint fade and maintenance. I’ve heard you have to replace the screws every x number of years.
Wannabe...
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most of the metal nowadays is "hidden fastener" meaning no rubber rings to shrink or screws to tighten or replace. Its true that there is no forever solution. Paint fades and hail will do a number on metal.... but its still water tight and can be repainted. 20-30 year shingles only seem to last 10-20 years (at least round here). Metal lasts at least twice as long. I like the look of the metal too.
We went metal.
There are a couple of houses in my neighborhood that have metal, I've never felt like they looked out of place. And I've never noticed any paint fade, we've been here 12 years and both houses had the metal roofs before we moved to the neighborhood so at least 12 years old and they both still look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by deltarat
It does lock you in to a paint scheme though. The houses in my neighborhood are mostly brick but if they ever wanted to repaint doors or trim they will be limited to colors that will look good with the color on the roof. I know on of them is green because its just a couple doors down from me, I think the other one near the front of the neighborhood is a dark maroon color.
I’m a shingle guy all the way. Never have liked the look of metal
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I have done metal roofing since 1998 and we have never had to replace a screw yet! No Leaks yet! Metal looks like it fades but it just needs cleaned! A lil bleach and pressure washing or chemically cleaned once ever few year keeps it looking good! Just like washing a house down!
I'll keep that lil tip in my back pocket. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grizzly2k1
We had a metal roof and awnings put on our house about ten years ago and I have no complaints so far. There's nothing like the sound of rain on a metal roof when you go to bed at night... but by the same token... too heavy of rain or hail will almost deafen you on the other extreme. We also put a (vented) air space between the original roof and the new exoskeleton (frame), which really helped Heating & Air Conditioning (insulation value) too. I have no issues in any way with structural integrity, maintenance or fading so far.
Check out sheffieldmetals.com for some good info on metal roofs. The standing seam is the way to go ! If you have any chance of tree damage to the roof I would remove the tree ! Replacement of panels is costly on these type roofs. Depending on the roof can you use partial metal and shingles both. I like the metal on porches. I would be sure and strip off the old shingles too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wannabe...
That being said I'm replacing my roof with architectural shingles.
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Just put a metal roof on then go fishing.:twocents
we have a ancient house built in 1840's we renovated and put shingles on the kitchen addition but original building has like 3 layers of ancient shingles on it but it doesn't leak and we are only there a few weekends a year so not worth the expense. But when neighbor did theres they did metal and was surprised at the price, which was a lot less than we thought so now we are tempted.
seems like metal would be the way to go BAA's.
I have had both- Shingles for me!
Depending on how strong your cell service is where you live a metal roof can kill your service in your house you will have to add a signal booster antenna to your roof
Other than that I love my metal roof !!
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My son sells roofing material for a living. Both metal and shingles. He swears by shingles. He just roofed his new house with architectural shingles
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As an insurance adjuster I recommend arc shingles. They are MUCH easier to pinpoint a leak to fix it compared to metal. On metal the screws will need replaced every 5-10 years and for insurance to ever pay it will either have to be significant hail damage or completely torn off by a tornado or such.
Aite. Next question. Anyone got. A roofer that is hungry and will work for crappie fillets and doesn’t know the difference between striped bass and catfish and crappie fillets?
Looking to get some recommendations and quotes from guys that work Grenada.
Wannabe...
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Dixie Roofing. Kris Blakey
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Got a call into them. They coming next week.
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We had a leak in our shingled roof and had 3 different roofers come out to try to fix it and were never able to find it. One said he replaced some split shingles and sealed some holes that he said were left from "toe boards" that the original roofers had used when the house was built, another one replaced the boots around the dryer vent and other vents, the third one was honest and just said he couldn't locate the source of the leak and didn't charge us anything. We had given up and were saving up to pay for a new roof when one of those contractors that goes out knocking on doors after a storm came by and told us he thought he could get State Farm to buy us a new roof. I didn't think he would be able to because we tried that when the leak first started and were told by the first adjuster that we didn't have storm damage, just an old roof. But the guy got it done and all we had to pay was our deductible. I don't know if he paid off the second adjuster or what, but he got it done and now my roof doesn't leak anymore. And the second time around State Farm didn't send a local adjuster, they flew someone in from out of town so we were expecting it to be even harder to get them to pay for a new roof, but they paid for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AWH02311
I recommend Dixie roofing! They do a great jobQuote:
Originally Posted by BroKenneth
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