Metal shingles?

Geo-TH,In · Aug 18, 2019

Not much on TV on a Sunday morning. On Today's Homeowner they installed metal shingles over existing shingles. They put a moisture barrier between metal and existing shingles.

I'm not convinced I would want metal shingles. They looked flimsy and only held in place with two metal clips and 2 screws.

Pizza Hut had red metal shingles on their building before they remolded. They had difficulty keeping metal shingles on.

What does the YT building code people think of metal shingles?

gtractorfan · Aug 18, 2019

Dad built the house I grew up in in the mid 1940's with a metal shingle roof. That roof is still on, very little maintenance, needs painting every twenty to twenty five years. I painted it once with John Deere green paint (close to original color).

Stephen Newell · Aug 18, 2019

The metal shingles would be fine but they should have removed the asphalt shingles first. It adds unnecessary weight to the roof.

JDEM · Aug 18, 2019

My house has steel roof shingles that were installed in 1982. Still fine. Even have moss growing on them like asphalt shingles.

Richard G. · Aug 18, 2019

I really like the old styles of metal shingles. My Grandparents house has had them on it for 100 years.
They replaced the old wood shingles.
Our youngest son just took the house down and it it stored and is about to be put back up as the centerpiece of a 1920's farmstead project he is building here in the community on land he has leased from the county.
My old shop has metal shingles that are at least a hundred years old. I built the shop in 1987 and paid $25 for the old shingles. They are very heavy metal
I don't have a clue about the modern stuff.
Richard in NW SC

db4600 · Aug 18, 2019

I have put them on, seen many put on, talked to many installers, and removed some for remodel/ addition. What I?ve seen is if you can afford them they?re worth it. The true sand covered metal shingle is far from flimsy and attaches to both each other and the sub-straight adequately.

Richard G. · Aug 18, 2019

More photos of the old Burris shingles on my old shop.
Richard

Leroy · Aug 18, 2019

Problem would be over existing shingles same as for any new shingler. Doing that you cannot get a firm attaching place in the old shingles. I know nothing about the metal shingle. Only thing I know is do not put one roof over a different roof, take of old and repair sheating first. Some places will allow a second or even a third roof and others require everything to be taken off and that is the way it should be. Family had couregated steel put on over wood years ago and nails were only in old shingles to hold roof on.

Dick L · Aug 18, 2019

I took a call from a Toledo Ohio company selling and installing the metal shingles. The after effect was about as bad as the shingles I had on my back, sides and under my arms to get rid of. I had a local roofer install new steel roofing on all of my buildings including the little shed addition. This seemed to eradicate the metal shingle phone syndrome.

Moonlite37 · Aug 18, 2019

In 1999 I bought a farm that had an old garage built during WW2 and it has a roof made of flattened motor oil cans, some quart and some gallon, with a few anti-freeze cans. I was told that the old fellow who built it would go into town and pick up cans at the filling stations. He cut out the tops and bottoms and flattened them,He nailed then with 4d common nails like wood shingles. one old fellow who was a kid told me several can openers were worn out cutting the ends out. The roof was getting poor and I burned the building, Some of the lettering was still readable. Some of the cans were Sinclair with the dinosaur on the painted label. I think I kept a couple of the shingles

Stephen Newell · Aug 18, 2019

Should have saved the shingles. Even flattened out I bet some collector would have paid for them.

Gambles · Aug 18, 2019

I just talked to my local mom-and-pop owned hardware store owner last Friday about new shingles for my house. Mine are still okay, but will be needing replacement within a year. Something to remember about any shingles that advertise a "lifetime warranty" is that your homeowner's insurance company might no longer cover shingles in their policy. In other words, if you have hail or a manufacturer's warranty on your shingles, it will be you who goes after the manufacturer to get a replacement, not your insurance company. My hardware store has seen in person the problem a homeowner can have.
I was informed that I should talk to my local insurance man before buying any premium roof covering.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 18, 2019

I had to shop around to find an insurance company that will give me full replace minus deductible without depreciating because of age.

Indiana Farmers will. And they do pay off a claim.

I use 35 year shingles, which for me is more than my lifetime.

Some lifetime warranties only covers the person who buys the roof. Sell the house and lifetime warranty is gone.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 18, 2019

My greatest fears are falling off a slick metal roof and an angry woman chasing me with a Lorena Bobbitt knife.

Crazy Horse · Aug 18, 2019

George ..... 35-year shingles with a full replacement and no depreciated value? That's hard to imagine any company offering that unless the premiums were out of sight.

ASEguy · Aug 18, 2019

I love that old building.

Richard G. · Aug 18, 2019

Thanks. I was very sick in 1987 and as I got better, I sawed that lumber on my old sawmill and put this shop up.
It was great therapy for me as I got better.
My parents came down to our house one morning and I told them I was going to build a chimney on the shop.
They went to town and when they came back in about 3 hours, the chimney was done.
They could not believe it.
Did a lot of work in that shop till I built my new one in 2001.
Richard

Gambles · Aug 18, 2019

My hardware/lumberyard store told me that you can expect about half from your shingles as to what is advertised.
In other words, if you buy 40-year shingles, expect 20 years. If you buy 30-year shingles, expect 15.
That is without other natural adversities, such as hail or high wind.
Speaking of wind, a couple of weeks ago a neighboring town had sheer winds (non-tornado) winds of 98 mph for a full 20 minutes.
Most asphalt shingles will not survive that.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 18, 2019

Crazy horse. Believe me. I use independent agents to buy my business insurance. Premiums are only a fee dollars more. Premiums haven't changed in years.

I was told farm bureau stops covering shingles after 15 years. Again told means hear say.

8 years ago we had 90 mph straight line wind
Trees damaged 5 buildings. All needed new roofs. Indiana Farmers paid for tear off, repaired roof damage, and replaced shingles. All I paid was a flat deductible. No prorating.

Does anyone from Indiana have Indiana farmers?

ss55 · Aug 18, 2019

One advantage of metal sheet roofing is fewer seams to keep sealed. I would guess that metal shingles will have about the same seam length as regular shingles and around ten times the seam length of sheet roofing. Are metal shingles limited to steep pitched roof or are the seams sealed? Will the material used to seal metal shingles last much longer than regular shingles? I'm not criticizing, just curious.

farmallsandcoops · Aug 19, 2019

We put Decra metal shingles on our roof (1900 farm house) in 2016. They look like real shingles and were in sheets that were 18-24 inches tall and about 4 foot wide. We have had wind storms that have taken siding off the house but the roof has not had any impacts. They were more expensive of course than regular shingles, but the warranty on them is I believe 50 years -- certainly longer than we are going to be in this house! We went this route as we could keep the hewn pitch to the roof where sheet steel does not.

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