Home Steel Roofing... Is is noisy when it rains??

I didn't want to hijack the thread below on the residential steel roofing. I have always wondered if the residential steel roofing is louder in the house during a rain like my pole shed is. Just a sprinkle outside sounds like a hurricane inside. I could see that keeping shingles on would help dampen the sound as well.

However, if I do this on my home, I would likely strip it down to bare and put down fresh felt paper and ice and water shield where appropriate.
 
I put steel over shingles using 2x4 nailers 12 years ago and I've never regreted it. A heavy rain will make a slight rumble. The noise from rain never wakes me at night.
 
It does make some noise but in the pole building there's usually not much insulation so it's much louder. In the house it's just a nice tranquel sound that puts you to sleep.
 
I had mine done a few months ago, steel over the old shingles , they put 1x2 strips down fastened the steel to those, has an air gap to breathe and have had several heavy rains since and hail a couple times. To be honest I can't tell a difference inside the house. If I am outside its louder , but it is nothing like the noise you get in a pole barn where there is nothing between you and the rain but the metal roof.
 
Ours was installed this summer, per the mfgrs specs without strips, after shingles were removed. I haven"t noticed any unusual level of noise.
 
I had steel install over one layer of shingles, back in August. Two story 110 year old house. I do not hear any rain patter..Daughter sleeps upstairs, says it's not noisy.
 
I've got steel nailed to 1X4 nailers. So 3/4 inch air gap then old asphalt shingles then layer of tar paper, then 1 inch roof boards, then 5 ft. attic, then 12 inches insulation, then lath, then plaster, then 3 coats of paint, then 9 ft of second story, then 1 inch floor boards, then f6 inch floor joists, then 1/2 inch sheet rock, then ceiling paper , then 3 coats of paint, then some decorative ceiling tin, then 2 coats of paint, then me sitting in the living room. I do not hear the rain.
 
We have a tile roof, plus 10" of insulation in the attic. Can't hear anything; have to open the front door and look outside to see if it rained.
 
I installed steel directly over one layer of shingles. This is on a ranch house with 8" of insulation in the attic. Don't hear a thing. Steel roofing on attached garage with only 1" foam board under it definitely makes a sprinkle sound like a down pour.
 
If you have adequate attic insulation you won't hear if. At our cabin the steel is over tar paper on OSB, with 12 inches of fiberglass insulation, we cannot hear the rain. Of course at 63 and 40 years of noisy industrial employment there are a lot of things I don't hear!
 
Is mine noisy? No. One reason I put it over plywood decking and the second the ceiling is under insulation. In an outbuilding, usually it's the sheating and you; nothing between.

Besides, even if it were.........................er ah, nothing like rain on a tin roof.............

Mark
 
I installed my steel roof over the old shingles (only one layer) I added 30# roofing felt, then the steel, it is not any louder inside than it was before, except for the black walnuts that fall on it, and if it hails, otherwise no big change. I will never have another shingled roof.
 

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