Establish your Purchasing Criteria for a New Roof

When it’s time to replace your roof, there are a number of things to consider. For example, how long do you want the new roof to last? How much repair and maintenance will be involved down the line? What type of roof is best in extreme weather conditions? These and other questions are important in establishing your purchasing criteria for a new roof.

Most homeowners are surprised to find that all the things they want most in a roof will be found in a well-built modern metal roof. Let’s look at six of them.

1. Metal roofs can be installed over an existing roof

This means your home will never be open to the elements during the construction process. It also means a lot less expense than when the job requires tearing off the old roof.

2. Long life

When you install a new metal roof, it likely will be the last roof you install for as long as you live in your home. Metal roofs provide superior performance for 40 or 50 years and even longer.

3. Reduced cooling bills

In setting purchasing criteria for a new roof, most people never think about how the roof will affect the home’s interior temperature during hot months. Metal roofs keep excess heat out of the home by reflecting the sun’s rays away from the roof. Compare that to an asphalt shingle roof, which absorbs heat from the sun and acts as a hot blanket over the whole house.

4. Holds up in extreme weather

Metal roofs can withstand gale-force winds without being damaged. They’re also resistant to damage from violent hail and season after season of flaming or freezing temperatures. When other roofing styles begin falling apart from extreme weather events, metal roofs go on looking as good as ever.

5. Home value

All other things being equal, what kind of home will homebuyers be more interested in: a home that will need a new roof in five or six years, or a home that may not need a roof replacement for several decades? Add to this virtually no expense on repairs and maintenance, and your home has a great chance of fetching the highest possible selling price.

6. Fabulous eye-appeal

Today’s metal roofing materials are available in a wide range of exciting colors, textures and styles, making it easy to cover your home with a new roof that’s elegant and attractive. With many of the material designs, it’s hard to tell at first glance that it’s actually a metal roof.

These are six of the important things to consider when making plans to have your roof replaced. If you’d like to know more about modern metal roofing, contact the experts, Advanced Aluminum of Lakeland, FL. We can help you decide on the perfect metal roof to bring you all the above benefits and more.

We manufacture the highest-quality metal roofing materials used by top contractors throughout the Lakeland region. Give us a call at (863) 648-5787.