Metal Roof VS Asphalt Shingles: Pro's and Con's Explained | Dreamworx Roofing roofers near me

so one of the most commonly asked questions we get when somebody calls in for a roof they say Charlie what's better metal or shingles they always want an estimate they want one estimate for shingles one estimate for metal because they don't know which one's better so my goal here today is I want to tell you some of the pros and cons of each system so that you can make the decision for yourself and figure out what's best for you in your home before I get into too many of the pros and cons I want to talk about the different types of metal because which one you choose will determine you know how much it'll cost your budget the look the style to feel everything like that so first things first is I want to talk about standing seam they call it standing seam for obvious reasons because you have this flat panel here with a standing seam between each of the panels and that's actually where these panels connect to each other so each of them come in about a piece about this wide and they actually clip into each other now there's a clip that's not shown here that will come over here and that's actually how you fastened the panel down it Clips right over this rib here and then you you screw down directly to the plywood and your next piece then simply will lock overtop of the next piece you go down through smash it in there and it will lock those panels together and you just continue on down the line so all of the fasteners that go into this roof are completely hidden nothing to potentially leak right so that brings me to our other type of metal which is the corrugated now this is a slightly cheaper type of metal roofing and the reason being is it's much less labor-intensive than this it is it has exposed fasteners so you imagine these are small pieces but you can imagine your panels this is one panel here and you're actually going to go through and screw directly into the face of these panels here here here and then your next panels are going to line up on top of it next to it so that's how they will go together and each of them have an exposed fastener that's actually holding it down and they will you know like I said they'll overlap like this and continue on down the roof much like this does but you know it's overlapping just right here so these two fit together and it continues down the roof so now obviously the third one we have done here is everybody knows it's a standard architectural shingle it's a no it's courting shingle but you know as far as singles go they're really you know all pretty much the same they're you know granule covered standard shingle you know 30-year 50-year lifetime warranty shingles so you know none of these are a bad option for your home by any means it's all a matter of what fits your budget in your style and so to better educate you on which one could be better for you I want to go over some of the quick pros and cons of each of these so that you can understand what you are buying so if we're talking about asphalt shingles I want to start with some of the pros of asphalt shingles here because it is the most commonly used building material in the world or for for roofing that is you know shingles are by far the best selling I mean metal is now becoming fast-growing one of the preferred options for roof but shingles it still reigns supreme you know millions of squares are installed of this every single every single year so to talk about some of the pros with this is the first one is the obvious one and that's cost right so with shingles you're gonna have much less of an upfront cost you know where if a shingle roof starts anywhere from you know three to five dollars per square foot or three to five hundred dollars per square you know metal is gonna run you somewhere in the range of five hundred to a thousand dollars per square or you know $5 to $10 per square foot so a much much smaller upfront cost with shingles than compared to metal the the other one that is kind of commonly overlooked and that's you have a big pool of contractors to choose from right you know the entry to market the ability to install shingles it's not an easy job by any means but it's easier to learn quicker to learn than it is the intricacies of cutting metal so for you know in any given City you're gonna have hundreds or thousands of guys that are willing to install the shingles and they all install them very well so you have a very very large pool of contractors to choose from that can all install shingles they install them very very well so you just have a lot a lot of options there so if you like to shop around for contractors you have no shortage of people willing to put those on for you one of the other pros is the warranties so when you look at a shingle warranty especially I'm talking specifically for contractors that are certified by a manufacturer right so if you install GAF you can be certified GAF guy or masterly GAF guy oh it's corny you could be a preferred or platinum preferred and you know Atlas all these major manufacturers offer some kind of factory certification for their to install their products to contractors like us so with those certifications come from different warranties right so obviously the shingles are covered the shingles are covered by a manufacturer's warranty that says you know they're not gonna fall apart all the granules aren't gonna wash off of them you know so that's your basic warranty and you can get better warranties if you use a preferred contractor or a factory certified contractor they can give an upgraded warranty you know jf you have golden pledge or silver pledge Owens Corning you have you know prefer to platinum preferred warranties so with those warranties comes a couple other things that aren't typically covered by a bag by a metal warranty right so one of those things is going to be installation right so if you are a factory certified installer and you're installing to all the manufacturer's specs that they write on the backside of the wrappers and you're using they're you know recommended accessories manufacturers will actually cover workmanship on the shingles as well so if your contractor installs your roof and goes out of business the next year if they followed those precautions did things the way the manufacturer wants them to be to be done and they're doing it with their products that manufacturer can actually warrant the workmanship now everyone's different you have to look through your specific warranty from the manufacturer as to how long some of them do ten years some do fifteen years I believe so that's something that you get Moschino that you don't actually with any kind of metal as far as I know one of the other things that you get with a warranty with shingles is some algae resistance so with metal you don't really have to worry about algae growing on that but with the shingles it's warranted for algae resistance it's warranted for them for the shingle granules not coming off one of the base manufacturers warranty the workmanship so there's there's like three or four different levels of coverage that you get from each manufacturer as far as the shingles go so you know if if one one fails you know it's there's plenty of ways that you can be covered by the manufacturer with shingles so all right so to talk about some of the pros of metal here obviously number one everybody knows it is longevity so metal is designed it's steel it's gonna last a long long time so the base warranty on a metal panel like this is 40 years 40 years is a coverage on the paint right here so bubble crack chip peel away for 40 years and that's where the warranty starts so it's projected that a lot of these metal groups are in the last field even outlast that you know 50 to 60 years or more probably in definitely ideal circumstances so an area where you didn't have any kind of bad weather or anything like that that would decrease the life of it so you know these things are warranted for a very very long time and that's you know obviously if you're gonna be in your home for a long time it's a great choice because you only gotta do it once whereas you know shingles could be a slightly different story depending on what happens so moving along next thing I want to talk about is they are environmentally friendly so these are 100% recyclable you can take this roof after it's done and take it down to the scrapyard take it down the recycling facility and it will be 100% recyclable and tomato it can be made out of recycled materials you know so it's very very environmentally friendly if that's something that's a concern of yours metal is definitely the way to go in addition to that is another thing that everybody knows and that's their energy efficiency so these panels have a high solar reflectivity so the sunlight is going to beat on them and shoot out in the opposite direction that's going to reflect solar rays that are gonna heat up your attic spaces so that can help with lowering your heating and cooling bills your attics not gonna be so hot so your insulation it's not going to be working as hard your beer a/c units are not gonna be working as hard to you know try to cool the upper areas of your house that are getting that are getting heated up I got attic space so you know these panels are even depending on where you live they can qualify for Energy Star credits right so you can write some of this stuff on your taxes you can get credits back for doing these types of things now that's all dependent on where exactly you live within the country and what you have set up there but you know very very energy-efficient and the last thing I want to talk about and it doesn't so much apply to these types of panels here the standing scene but it does apply to the corrugated and that is the ability to do a layover so while it's not recommended by me or not recommended by a lot of manufacturers it is something that you can you can do so let's say you have an older shingle roof and you know it's not leaking right now but you know you're going to replace it soon most of your decking underneath looks good and you know all those things are pretty much checked off what a lot of guys can do is you lay down furring strips purlins you lay down a 2x4 or a one by three you know depending on how you want to do it and you can actually install those over the roof you put your underlayment down install those purlins over top and that gives you something that nail to and you can actually install these types of panels the corrugated exposed fastener right over top of that old existing roof so that's going to help you from a budget standpoint because you get to save on a tear-off cost everything like that there's no no tear off no disposal nothing's gonna get damaged on the house by turning off the old shingles so if your budget if your budget conscious and it's something that you really just need to get a new roof on and as little money as possible this may be an option for you now keep in mind most manufacturers don't recommend it because you know what if you have damaged plywood underneath you know there's no way of knowing unless you're gonna take that so take those off and inspect the decking first so again not recommended but if it's some of the really want to do it is an option and it can save you some money on your upfront cost or the system alright so moving along let's talk about some of the drawbacks or some of the cons of shingles so first off is going to be you got a little bit lesser life when you compare that to metal so most basic shingle warranties think you know there are lifetime warranty but that just caught that covers the for the lifetime that you live within the home so it's almost 50 years that these shingles are gonna last and that's under ideal circumstances you know that's what that's what the manufacturers our warranty leaves for 50 years but that is ideal circumstances that doesn't take into account you know all that all that heavy rain hail wind ice snow things I could get in there and decrease the life of that shingle so compared to metal it's gonna have a little bit lesser life another thing is there's something we come across quite a lot you know not necessarily with residential people or clients it's more with commercial clients and that's the colors so when you look at this metal this metal panel can be made in any color that you wish you know all the different colors out there you can you can basically you could have your own paint mixed up and then have that applied to these panels but you know you have probably you know 20 25 30 different color choices that you could have in a metal panel because the paint is so easy to tint and change a bit that when you compare that to shingles right there's a lot of colors with shingles don't get me wrong you know there's all the basic colors that the the base colors that the manufacturer gives and then they have usually a designer line that has a little more definition some different colors and different colored granules in them but when you compare the colors available of shingles versus what's available for metal I mean it's it's a clear clear clear difference you know you're gonna have most of the shingles you know from up from from afar gonna look brown or they're gonna look black whereas a metal roof you know you can see a bright red metal roof you have a statefarm building near you they put bright red metal roofs are more you know Applebee's they put green roofs on them there's you know a lot of different ways that you can go so if you to make you want to make a you're trying to make a statement with a with a very loud popping colored roof you know maybe metal is the way to go but shingles a little bit more limited in the colors so next let's talk about your ability to damage right so shingles are compared to metal shingles are pretty easy to damage whether that be from wind or hail or ice dams you know in our northern more states those can really get damaged pretty easily you know it takes about a one-inch hail stone to cause you know some damage that's going to drastically decrease the life of that shingle when you compare that to metal the same one-inch hailstones gonna hit it and it's not gonna cause that panel to completely fail now there's some caveats to that if you get a big hail stone that hits right on the the rib that's connecting them you can then cause yourself some problems but overall generally speaking these are gonna damage much much easier than these metal panels are gonna damage and that takes me to my last point is recyclability so again if that's a concern of yours shingles while the technology is kind of coming around a little bit and there's some guys that do it shingles are not very recyclable most shingles that are torn off roofs are taken to a landfill and they're dumped in the ground and this is an asphalt based product it takes a very very long time to break down if it will break down ever so as far as recycling goes there are some people now and some companies that are offering shingle recycling where they take that asphalt based product and they chunk it up and they use it to pave roads or they use it in a variety of different ways but that technology is far behind the ease of recycling a metal panel if you were to take that off and throw it away right so definitely something to consider if you're looking to have a low environmental impact metal might be better for that for over shingles just because they don't break down not very recyclable alright so last but not least let's talk about some of the drawbacks or the cons of metal roofing so first it's gonna be your higher upfront cost right everybody knows it and it's very true your metal as an initial investment is going to be much more expensive than a shingle roof now that's assuming that you're tearing off all the old shingles inspecting the deck and going with a clean deck system instead of like a shingle you know instead of laying over metal panels over your existing shingles so you know with with shingles like I said like I mentioned earlier you can be expecting anything from you know three to five dollars per square foot or three to five hundred dollars per square you know and that metal could can sometimes be almost double that price so you know for a ten thousand dollar shingled roof you'd be looking at you know maybe twenty to a twenty-two thousand dollar you know metal roof again this is just kind of off the hip but it is definitely more expensive as an upfront cost so you got to have that cash available if you want to go with the metal next is there's a limited pool of contractors when it comes to metal or guys that know how to do it properly let's say you live in an area about you have a hundred you have a hundred roofing contractors realistically maybe ten or fifteen of those hundred guys are gonna be very very as proficient in shingles or as proficient in metal as they are in shingles so you have a much smaller pool of people to choose from so you know that could affect things like you know how long the contractors booked out for before they can get you on the schedule you know if there's only unlimited people and everybody wants a metal roof they're gonna be scheduled out a lot longer than the guys that are doing shingles potentially you know so but you got a really vet you know the people that are doing metal make sure that they know you know all the flashing details make sure they know what they're doing with this kind of stuff because it is a slightly different beast than working with an asphalt shingle so moving along another thing that is kind of a drawback to metal roofing panels is trying to make repairs on them so let's say you know a bad storm comes through and knocks a couple branches off of your neighbors tree flies over a new year into your yard and hits your roof so you know there's a small small tree branch and just makes a little dent here but this panel let's say you typical roof has a 16 foot run this panel could be 16 feet long so it's not just a matter of cutting it off and installing a new panel in there you got to replace the entire panel from all the way down to the eave up to the rake there up to the up to the ridge so you could have a 16 foot piece of mail that you need to go through and replace whereas a shingle you know that same branch comes down and hits one shingle you can very easily replace just a shingle or two or three so yeah these things can be a little difficult - a little difficult to repair but not impossible but it's certainly something to consider if you live in an area with a bunch of trees where you could possibly get some damage to it or if you're just looking for a lower maintenance option something that could be easier to repair if you needed to do that so and last but not least is and it's something that we don't come across a lot but it's worth talking about is if you live in an area where your home is governed by an HOA a lot of HOAs don't like metal roofs for whatever reason the you know you got to match the rest of the neighborhood everybody else has brown shingles and you want to come in with a black metal roof that's gonna screw up the aesthetic of the neighborhood maybe and your homeowners association will not approve of a metal roof so I tell me something to consider if you do live in an HOA you might want to check with them to see if a metal roof is okay or if you have to stick with a shingle roof because not too often but one another time I have run into a metal roof not being accepted so so the last fact that I want to talk about is this right here while you might have a hard time seeing it right now this is a cost versus value report this is a report that's put out by remodeling magazine every single year and what they do is they go around the country and they pull homeowners contractors they pull everybody and they look at the national averages of what different things what different projects are on your home costs you know so they look at bathroom remodels they look at you know putting stone on the bottom of that's the outside your house or you know building a deck or doing a roof or siding so to look at the roofing portion of this what they say is at the 2020 national average here for a asphalt shingle roof replacement is twenty four thousand seven hundred dollars and that gives you what from what they calculate a resale value on that of sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty seven dollars so if you install a roof and asphalt shingle roof what that comes out to is you can expect to recoup about sixty six percent of that cost and then when you look at a metal roof replacement they they put a value on the average cost of a metal roof install is about forty thousand three hundred eighteen dollars with a cost recouped of twenty four thousand six hundred eighty two dollars I'm sorry a resale value of twenty four 682 which gives you a total cost for cooped up about sixty two percent or sixty one percent sixty one-and-a-half somewhere in that range now that's a national average you know if we look in the Middle Atlantic you're actually going to get a better cost recouped on a metal roof versus an asphalt roof respectively you know metal you're gonna get about a fifty fifty seven percent return and then a shingle roof you get a sixty four percent so it's actually opposite of what I said and if you look even smaller in the local harrisburg markets and where we're at we look at a cost recouped from asphalt to metal your you can expect to recoup about twenty point seven percent of your asphalt shingle cost whereas with your metal you can look at recouping about thirty eight point seven percent of that cost so you know it it varies wide widely across the country but sometimes you know you might be getting if you're looking at this from an investment standpoint you could be getting more money out of that metal roof than the shingle roof or vice versa if you're in a different part of the country you could be getting more out of your shingle roof versus your metal roof so you know just some basic numbers here you know this shouldn't be used to calculate you know your exact job cost but you know it's a good point of reference for what you could expect to get out of it whenever you do go through with with the project so so ultimately to bring this all back home what roofing material you two is ultimately up to you there's no one-size-fits-all it's not to say that metals better than shingles or shields are better than metal everything is very much dependent on your particular situation right your budget your HOA rules your the length of time you plan on living at your house all of these things will will judge and help you decide what material is right for you so you know I just want to lay out the facts here that these are some of the things that you can expect with drawback or pro of the different types of systems there's a lot more to be considered than just this this is a quick little ten minute video so I don't want to go saying that these are all the issues or all the problems or all the good things about these products but certainly some small things to consider and for you to start your research so that you can dive a little bit deeper and make sure that you're making the most informed decision possible so thank you guys so much for taking the time to listen I'm Charlie from DreamWorks and we will see you next time thank you [Music] [Music]

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Length: 23min 32sec (1412 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020