Metal Roofing in Aubrey, TX
Metal roofing is worth it if you are staying, and hard to justify if you are not.
If this is the house you are staying in
A standing-seam metal roof is built to last somewhere between forty and seventy years. The housing here mostly dates to around 2011, so a metal roof put on now is a roof that outlives the mortgage, the next owner's mortgage, and very probably you. That is the whole case for it: measured per year of service, metal is among the cheapest roofing there is.
Which is exactly why it is the wrong answer for a lot of people. Per year is only a useful unit if you are there for the years. Sell in five and you have handed the next owner a roof surface they did not pay for, and the market rarely gives that money back at closing. The math that matters is not metal against asphalt; it is how long the house stays yours.
What Aubrey metal roofing covers
Metal is not one product. The two systems in ordinary residential use differ in how they are fastened, and that difference drives price, lifespan and where they leak.
- 01Standing seam
- Panels lock together at raised seams and the fasteners are concealed underneath. Nothing penetrates the surface, which is why it is the long-life option, commonly cited at forty to seventy years.
- 02Exposed fastener, or screw-down
- Panels are screwed through the face, with gaskets under the heads. Less expensive and faster to install, commonly cited at thirty to fifty years, and the gaskets are a maintenance item because they are what eventually lets water in.
- 03What sits underneath
- Both need a sound deck and the right underlayment, and both expose any framing problem the old covering was hiding. Metal is unforgiving of a wavy deck in a way asphalt is not.
Three steps. Same on every roof.
Metal is a measured job, and the measuring happens before anything is ordered. The sequence below is why.
The roof is measured and the deck checked
Panel lengths are cut to your planes, so the measurement has to be right before material is ordered rather than after.
The old roof surface comes off
Down to the deck, with any soft sheathing replaced first, because a metal panel telegraphs what is under it.
Panels and details go on
The field is the straightforward part. Valleys, penetrations, ridge and edge flashing are where a metal roof is actually won or lost.
What metal costs on an Aubrey roof
Standing seam sits well above architectural asphalt at installation, with screw-down metal between the two. Metal is comfortably the larger bill up front.
Spread across service life the comparison inverts, which is the case for it. The figure for your roof comes from the measurement and names its own lines.
Get metal priced- Which system
- How cut up the roof is
- What the deck needs first
Metal on a house that is already newer
Hail is what most metal conversations here are circling. Metal does not shrug it off. It dents, and on a screw-down system a hard enough season can loosen gaskets around the fasteners. What it does not generally do is lose the ability to shed water the way a bruised asphalt shingle does. So the trade runs both ways. You are exchanging a roof surface that hides damage until it fails for one that shows damage and usually keeps working. Whether an insurer treats denting as cosmetic or as damage is the carrier decision, written into your policy, and it is worth reading that language before the order goes in.
- 01Dents are visible and usually cosmetic
- A dented panel normally keeps doing its job. Whether that satisfies you to look at is worth answering before the order goes in.
A metal roof on a fifteen-year-old house is a long bet on staying put. Good for the people it fits, poor for everybody else.
How metal answers hail, dents included
Q1Does hail ruin a metal roof?
Q2Is metal noisy in rain?
Q3Will my insurer charge me more, or less?
Q4Can metal go over the existing shingles?
Q5How long is the warranty on a metal roof?
Get your Aubrey metal roof priced
Send the address and a local roofer measures the planes and prices standing seam, screw-down and asphalt on separate lines, at no charge. Compare the three against how long you plan to own the house, and take your time over it; there is no hard sell attached to asking.