Metal Roofing Systems
Metal roofing systems are the most reliable, easy to install and with a very long life span systems for you to choose when you are looking for a product to cover your roof.
By now, the old fashioned asphalt roofing is just a poor option for people that want to replace their roofing system from eight to eight years, because this is the recommended life of such a roofing system.
Even though the metal roofing systems were implemented for a couple of centuries now, it was the 20th century that represented the booming point for them. In this century, science, constant research, producing companies desire to satisfy the increasing demands of their clients, various market crashes affecting the metal-based industries forcing their components to cut down expensive processes on different metals and many other reasons made the metal roofing systems to rise in the top of the roofing industry.
What makes the metal roofing systems that good? It’s quite simple:
- - the life span of such a system is around 50 to 100+ years;
- - the different metals used are making metal roofing systems very resistant against wind, corrosion and fire or sparkling.
For the ones that doubt the history of the metal roofing systems, we can assure you that these roofing systems were the ones that gave a great aid for the opening of America back at its early days; this situation is now encountered in the countries that are considered being part of the “developing world”.
Their abilities being proven in the last half of the 20th century, nowadays the most used materials in metal roofing systems are aluminium and copper. Let us present you the advantages of these two major components in the roofing industry:
- - durability
- - easy to be used in the process of making the desired plates;
- - a high rate in recycling -almost 80% of the present aluminium and copper in the metal roofing systems is actually recycled content;
- - a longer life span than the average materials used for roofing;
- - improved design flexibility
- - and last, however not least, the fact that these two types of metal plates use little or, in some cases, no maintenance whatsoever.
Another interesting thing is the one about metal roofing systems that use stainless steel or steel sheets coated with a certain alloy mixture between zinc and copper; in time, due to the oxidization of the alloy, the sheets receive a protective patina -shield, let us call it. This patina enforces the roofing system, giving it more useful characteristics:
- - the sheets become great snow-sheds -after the snow is collected on the roof, and the temperature rises with a couple of degrees, the snow will easily and freely slide off the roof and this makes metal roofing systems ideal for mountain regions;
- - usually, the metal sheets used in roofing come with a warranty between 25 to 50 years, but the oxidization process makes them last more than 100 years;
- - the same process suffered by the alloy of zinc and aluminium makes the roofing system perfect for keeping the inner climate of the building under a better control, while lowering the budget for the air-con up to 25%!