new standing seam metal roof ?s

[ak9]

I 'm about to put a new 30x60' standing seam roof on my tractor building. One of the the Quotes I've rec'd is for 24 guage concealed fastener painted 16" pans @ 2$ a sq ft.. The method they use to fabricate/extrude I've no experience with .. What I understand they do is bring a linear extruder/bender to the job site and make the exact pans required from coil stock..so they build the job on site.
Have any of you TBNERS any experience with this method ?
AK9

 

[crash325]

I 'm about to put a new 30x60' standing seam roof on my tractor building. One of the the Quotes I've rec'd is for 24 guage concealed fastener painted 16" pans @ 2$ a sq ft.. The method they use to fabricate/extrude I've no experience with .. What I understand they do is bring a linear extruder/bender to the job site and make the exact pans required from coil stock..so they build the job on site.
Have any of you TBNERS any experience with this method ?
AK9

In my opinion 24 gauge is too thin. Take a look at a sample and see what you think.

 

[VTFireftr]

Three years ago I had a standing seam room installed on my house. I don't know thw gauge, but the roof was installed as you describe.

The roof looks great and I have no complaints.

I think I got a more "custom" job by using this type of installation, since the roofers had to fabricate several pieces to fit around the roof windows, chimney, vents, etc.

I live in snow country and had a cedar shake roof. The shakes held the snow, and caused all sorts of issues. The standing seam doesn't hold any snow. Once the sun comes out after a storm, the snow usually slides off the roof within a few hours.

Good luck with the new roof.

Marc

 

[dave1949]

I 'm about to put a new 30x60' standing seam roof on my tractor building. One of the the Quotes I've rec'd is for 24 guage concealed fastener painted 16" pans @ 2$ a sq ft.. The method they use to fabricate/extrude I've no experience with .. What I understand they do is bring a linear extruder/bender to the job site and make the exact pans required from coil stock..so they build the job on site.
Have any of you TBNERS any experience with this method ?
AK9

My roofs were done that way. It is a slick on-site operation. Pick up truck with the coil of 24 ga. roofing on it, feeds into a trailer behind it with the forming bender, cut off to the exact length needed. Another truck had a generator and compressor that powered everything. They had an air motor driven seam crimper that runs up the seams. My roofs are not old, installed in 2005 and 2006, but so far, so good.

24ga is heavy enough roofing at least where it installed over continuous sheathing. Supply stores sell 29 and 26 gauge in the pre-cut steel I think.

$2/sqft sounds like a steal deal to me.

Dave.

 

[tlbuser]

they've got a roll former or if you prefer, an extruder. Have you ever seen seamless gutter made? Similar process. A decent roll former with a couple of die sets cost the co. ~ 100,000.00 + to set up so they're either doing something right or .........get referrences and talk to them, don't just drive by and see the final results.

Did the price include trim and gutters? 24 is thin, 26 is better, 29 better yet.

 

[hizoot]

24 gauge is thicker than 26 which is thicker than 29......24 is pretty thick for roofing

 

[xtn]

Extruding is something entirely different. What is being discussed here is cold roll forming.

And I thought sheet metal guage was lower number equals thicker stock. No?

 

[BeezFun]

I think you should excavate to the left side of that structure so you can extend the roof a little more. Might make the book of Guiness records.

Seriously, I think I'd stretch a line from the ridge down to the fascia and see how straight that is, pictures often create optical illusions but it appears the pitch of the lean to looks a little different than the main structure. Metal roofing doesn't bend much in that direction, you might have to put in some furring strips to level things out. Or maybe they do that as part of the installation cost.

 

[radioman]

my first thought after seeing your LOOOOONG roof is how much water is really running off that roof at the end?! you literally could fill a pond with that much runoff.

Have you asked for customers of contractor work theye did that has simalar long roof like yours? Do you get sudden downpours of rain?

 

[MotorSeven]

K9 why standig seam for a workshop/shed? For me I would order regular tin cut to the length needed. Yes there will have to be a seam, but that's a whole lot cheaper than standing seam. I just put regular multi purpose silver tin on a barn - 80'x17' ...just under 1K. I think it was 29ga galvalume 25 year warranty:

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