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Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: My Pantry
From: Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:24:29 -0800
I have this roof on my house, and so does the next house to the south of me.
<https://www.oregonsbestroof.com/metal-roofing/roofing-shingles>
As Moose said, it was light weight and did not require a tearoff so that the cost worked out OK. The 50 year warranty was good, too. the house next door was done some 25 years ago and still looks the same as it did new. Mine is around 15 years old.
Paul in Portland OR

On 11/15/2014 1:22 PM, Moose wrote:
On 11/15/2014 9:49 AM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
...

  We also installed aluminum roofs on our house and barn and they are
called tin roofs also.

Not that I've heard out here in the far west.

Perhaps the aluminum has better coatings now. Around here the few AL
panels remaining are quickly turning to white oxide. Most houses now
use the coated steel which lasts a (relatively) very long time. I was
sold when I a friend's house with cedar shakes caught a spark from the
wood stove. When you live in a dry area in the woods steel makes
sense. Yeah, yeah I know about slate but the structural requirements
are onerous. Plain rusty steel is becoming popular now too. The FeO
coating is pretty stable and attractive in a rustic sort of way which
fits with the developing PacNW architectural style.

My pressed steel roof is now 22 years old. Other than looking very
settled in, what with the moss and lichen, it appears to be as good as
new. It has the same name as this NZ product, and I seem to remember the
company was Antipodean, but they were manufacturing in the US at the time.

The brochure I still have shows a nine layer coating process, but very
similar to the textured finish here.
<http://www.gerardroofs.co.nz/choosing-a-roof/roof-for-a-new-home/the-science-of-metal-tiles/>

And looks like the textured finish shown here.
<http://www.gerardroofs.co.nz/products/tiles-and-shingles/corona-shake/>

I bought it in part because it is so light, and could be installed over
the existing two layers of asphalt shingle on my light roof structure.
(Which ended up being torn off anyway, for other reasons.)

I have to say it was a great choice, as it's now in much better shape
than a 22 year old asphalt shingle roof. I'm guessing it will at least
manage the 50 years of the warranty.

Buying it wasn't fun. It was like having a car dealer closing room at my
dining table, but the installation guy was terrific.


A lot of the older stores and homes around here have pressed tin
ceilings.

Not a PacNW style. Very few coffered ceilings of even the plain sort.
However the emigrants are bringing the style and the necessary $$ with
them.

Most are just too fussy looking for me. In this lightly built house on
clay in earthquake country, I think plasterboard that can be filled when
it cracks from movement is better. :-)

Roofed Moose

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