About A House - Metal Roof

It's been a month since the last post. There's been lots happening but not much of it is picture worthy.  The most dramatic looking change is the roof being finished!

After the SIP roof was installed, there was another layer of framing to the shape of the roof

and to house MORE insulation...

& then it's closed off with plywood that the metal roof will sit on.

But before the metal goes on, there is yet another layer of blue barrier

But that wasn't good enough for the city inspector, we needed to add another temperature condensation barrier to protect against temperature change between the inside and outside differential! There certainly will not be money escaping through heat lost in the future in our house since we've already spent it all now!! LOL!

Onto the metal roof...

We hem and haw over the colour of the roof. It's very unconventional to pick such a light colour as other houses with metal roof are usually charcoal grey. Our initial reaction was we preferred the charcoal grey as well. On consultation with Wilma & Dan (Arthur's go to guy!) we decided on this stone grey because it is better for heat reflection and reduces "city warming" effects. Here's an article on the advantage of lighter colour roof. Although one can argue that it isn't as significant in our cooler climate, we're still an urban centre so it should help.

Now that it's up, it's really grown on us. The whole package deal is all going to reveal itself in a few weeks when the Ceraclad goes up!

Timeline of roof completion:

Start of framing after SIP roof: mid Apr
Framing ready for insulation: beginning of May
Completion of insulation and plywood: mid May
Completion of roof: end of May/beginning of June