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Standing seam · exposed fastener

Metal Roofing in Nashville & Murfreesboro

The longest-lived roof we install, and the one a Tennessee summer argues for. A standing-seam panel sheds water on geometry rather than on a seal, and there is no exposed fastener to back out as the deck moves through forty freeze-thaw cycles a year.

The inspection is free, with a plain answer about what the roof needs.

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Profile
Concealed-fastener standing seam
Service life
40–70 years for the material class
Slope
Down to 3:12 standing seam, lower with a mechanical lock
Hail
Dents without breaching — the panel stays watertight
An AEM installer walking a run of dark standing-seam panels mid-install, the raised seams running downslope beside him.

Choose metal roofing when

  • You intend to keep the house. Metal costs more up front and stops costing after that.
  • The roof is steep, visible, and part of how the house reads from the road.
  • You are tired of hail claims. A hail strike dents a metal panel; it fractures a shingle mat.
  • Barns, shops and outbuildings, where a shingle roof is a maintenance schedule you do not want.

When it is the wrong answer

  • You are selling within a couple of years — you will not be there for the payback.
  • The roof has many penetrations and short, chopped-up planes. Every one is a flashing detail, and the labor climbs faster than the material.
  • An HOA or historic district that specifies a shingle profile. Brava is usually the answer there instead.
How the job runs

Installing metal roofing, step by step.

  1. 01

    We measure the panels, not the square

    Standing seam is cut to the run. The panel length, the rib spacing and the eave-to-ridge measurement decide the order, so the estimate follows a real measurement rather than an aerial square count.

  2. 02

    Deck and underlayment first

    Metal telegraphs everything under it. Soft decking gets replaced before a panel goes down, because a wave you can see from the street is not something a panel hides.

  3. 03

    Flashing is the job

    Valleys, sidewalls, chimneys and pipe boots are where a metal roof leaks, if it leaks. That detailing is the part we do not subcontract.

Questions

What people ask us first.

Is a metal roof loud in the rain?
Not over a solid deck and underlayment, which is how a residential metal roof is installed. The noise people remember comes from panels screwed straight to open purlins on a barn — no deck, no underlayment, nothing to absorb it.
Will it make the house hotter?
The opposite. Metal reflects rather than absorbs, and a light-colored or coated panel sheds radiant heat a dark shingle holds. It matters most in July, which is when it matters.
Can metal go over the existing shingles?
Sometimes, and we will tell you when it should not. A recover hides the decking, and if the decking is what failed you have paid to install a new roof over the problem.
What happens in a hailstorm?
You may get cosmetic denting. What you do not get is the granule loss and mat fracture that ends a shingle roof — the panel is still watertight after the storm that would have started your claim.

Talk to us about metal roofing.

A leak, a missing shingle, a roof that has simply reached the end of its life — describe it and we will come look. The inspection is free. If it is urgent, calling is faster.

(615) 418-6087 · 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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