A potential customer recently wrote to us for advice about a new roof. Their current roof, a popular brand of fiber-cement roofing, was guaranteed to last 30 years with no problems. The roof is now 25 years old, leaking like a faucet and seriously unattractive to boot. Unfortunately, this story is so common as to be an embarrassment to the industry. There are literally thousands of homes and buildings with versions of the cement/wood roofing materials that have or are failing long before the expected lifespan. It's a great example of what I've learned over the years in the business - let someone else be the guinea pig when choosing building materials!

We routinely get questions about a range of roofing materials, not just metal. Recently, someone contacted us because they were considering re-roofing with slate and they wanted our opinion on the material and the logistics, particularly given the fact that they would be replacing a composition shingle roof.

Being a metal roofing supply company, we may be a little biased when it comes to metal. But facts are facts, so we'll let them do the talking for us. Here are three stellar reasons metal roofing is the best material with which you can roof just about any building: