Lauren Risotto

Metal roofing has gained popularity in recent years for its unique style and long-lasting performance. Standing seam is the premium metal roofing profile type. Because of the sleek appearance, it’s being used in more and more contemporary housing and commercial buildings.

A roof’s ultimate purpose is to protect you and your home from the outside elements. However, sometimes those elements can be so severe that they can cause damage to your roof.

Something as small and simple as screws and fasteners are easy to disregard as a vital component of a construction project. For metal roofs, fasteners make up less than 1% of the total cost of installation, yet they can result in 100% of the roof’s failure. Your roof can fail from broken fasteners, incorrectly installed fasteners, worn out sealing washers, or the simplest of errors: using the wrong screws.

A metal roof brings many different advantages to homeowners, from being low maintenance to having a long lifespan. But if you’re interested in a metal roof, there are more types of metal roofing materials and panel styles than you probably realize. That makes it pretty difficult to easily understand all of your options.

If you have any experience buying something red, whether it be a shirt, hair dye, or even a car, then you should be familiar with what happens to that same red after some time spent outside in the sun. It starts to get dull, and overtime turns into a pale version of a color that barely resembles its former beautiful, vibrant self.