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Installing the Metal Roofing
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" Kevin Corcoran is here from the -- company and they make metal roofs right yes. Now tell us about metal roofs I mean this is looking very handsome -- looks like an old steel roof. I'm used to kind of color groups and amused to kind of commercial applications. Why does it make sense in residential application well it it makes sense for a lot of reasons for out of the main reason would be the longevity of the product. This particular roof on this home will probably last for anywhere from fifty to 100 years that's true in New England you can still seasoning grooves on barns that have been there. Painted red over the years but it is there for a century yes we have roofers who are removing roofs in Maine and Vermont have been on the building for probably a hundred years or longer and Kevin this is a state of the art. Metal roof -- tin roof no it is not as a carbon steel roof with a galvalume coating which is a combination of aluminum and -- and on top of -- and acrylic finish to have it weather. In age evenly. Terrific now is it energy efficient it is energy star certified congratulations yes that's very -- what about cost them. The cost is is higher than a lot of the traditional type roofs such as shingles but it's in line with wood it's in line certainly less expensive than things like. Slate and high -- tile. But over a period of those fifty years the take this problem like this with heavy ice dam and snow. It will probably last. Three to four shingle roofs and it'll outlast 34 dollars and groups adapt well I'm curious to see how this machinery works because this is also state of the art precedence."
" My Sikorsky is here and Jeff -- the installers and -- I want to learn a little bit about this it's not a brake traditionally people used a brake to put the seams in metal roofs what have you invented here or developed what's what with this is a portable roll former self contained unit. They take your right to the job site and -- the old days of these do it he said with a breaks -- do everything by hand and now things prefab here read in the machine. Station by station it's formed so you've got all the different dies in there that are dies are gonna form the metal into the standing seam panel that we want and Jeff the do you get the material already cut into. These widths of."
" Yeah material comes to us and -- forest where it's that allows us to make a twenty inch panel from seam -- also effective use of material there's no waste no waste at all all right can you run it I know it's gonna be loud sharp."
" We're letting myself. And -- a lot of."
" All right stop it stop it turn it off. All right what I want to see is how you get these up on the roof and put him in place. All right when it's raining hard and we don't want to work on a roof when it's raining but Kevin one last question from you if viewers want to learn more about metal roofing. The best place to go to is www. Metal roofing dot com which is the web site of the metal roofing alliance not only can they learn a lot about the product. They can find out about specific contractors approved by the alliance to install roofs in actually."
