Is building a metal roof in Utah feasible and cost efficient?
Will building a metal roof in Utah raise your heating bill during the winter months? Or will it withstand the heavy snowfalls?
Is building a metal roof in Utah, right for you?
We have all the answers for you.
Metal roof’s have become quite the craze lately with the farmhouse style becoming dominant in the housing marketing, as well as HGTV’s hit TV show, “Fixer Upper” farmhouse living is blowing up Pinterest feeds and popping up more and more in the housing industry.
If you have considered building a metal roof, there are a few things you will want to consider.
On average, a metal roof costs more than other roof types. Roughly $16,453 is the average cost, but there is also a great return on investment when building a metal roof.
Today metal roofs come in a variety of styles and colors and can look like wood, clay tile, slate and even asphalt shingles.
Did you know?
With a traditional shingle roof, your home’s weather and thermal protection is often inadequate, especially if you happen to live in a harsher climate (like Utah).
For example, in desert-like climates such as parts of Texas, California, Nevada, and Arizona that have a lot of direct sunlight and rapidly changing temperatures, asphalt shingles can often develop all sorts of chips and cracks leading to premature roof failure.
According to New England Metal Roof,
“Even in temperate climatic zones asphalt shingle roofs average only 12 to 17 years of service life”.
With a modern metal roof you can have a system that can easily last two to three times longer than asphalt, while also providing superior energy efficiency, durability, reliability, and often significant energy savings.
Metal roofs also provide:
- Years and years of leak-proof performance
- They are environmentally friendly
- Have huge energy savings
- They are recyclable
Metal roofing does not contain any petroleum based products that go in the production of asphalt roofing products and end up in our landfills once the asphalt shingles have served their purpose and are no longer useful.
In fact, over 30 billion pounds of asphalt shingles end up in landfills every year.
Metal roofs can last up to two, to three times longer than asphalt shingle roofs. Which means that your metal roof will actually be the last roof you will ever have to pay for.
The recouped value of a metal roof hovers around the 90% mark, which easily makes it twice as much the amount of what you would normally expect to get back for just the installation of a typical asphalt shingle roof.
Maybe building that Farmhouse style home with a metal roof actually is a great idea after all.
Should you build a metal roof in Utah?
The answer is, yes. Yes you should build a metal roof in Utah.
Have questions? Or want to receive a quote on your future metal roof? Call Harrington and Co. or visit us at one of our 5 locations nearest to you. (801)972-3131, www.harringtonco.com