Guide
Is a metal roof right for you? Fit and non-fit, honestly
An honest read on who a metal roof serves well and who it does not — time horizon, budget, roof shape, expectations — before anyone quotes you.
Kitchen-table explanations
Metal roofing guides
Longer explanations, in the order I would give them across a kitchen table: context, tradeoffs, limitations, then fit.
Guide
The metal roof systems sold for houses, compared honestly
Exposed fastener, snap-lock, mechanically seamed standing seam, interlocking shingles and stone-coated steel — what each is, where it fails, who it fits.
Step by step
How to evaluate a metal roofing quote
A step-by-step way to compare metal roofing quotes on system, gauge, coating, certification, warranty and scope — so price is the last thing you look at.
Guide
How to choose a metal roofing contractor
What separates a metal roofing contractor worth hiring from one who is not — certification, insurance, what they ask, how they write the scope.
Step by step
What installation day looks like, honestly
The days a metal roof goes on — tear-off, deck repair, underlayment, panels formed on site, flashing, cleanup — and the noise and weather realities.
Guide
Why metal roofs leak, and how to find the source
Metal roofs rarely leak through the panel. Where they do — flashing, fasteners, valleys, boots, ice dams — how to trace it, and what a good fix looks like.
Guide
How to read a metal roof finish warranty
Film integrity versus chalk and fade, what the year counts mean, the ASTM tests behind them, and why a "40-year" headline can cover less than it sounds.
Guide
Repair or replace? How to read the condition of your roof
How to tell whether a targeted repair will hold or replacement is the better use of your money — fasteners, flashing, coating, decking, pattern.
Guide
Before we meet: what the estimate visit covers
What happens when we come out to look at a roof, what we will ask, what we will tell you — including when metal is not the right call — and what to have ready.