Michael: We’re building our project house in North Texas where severe thunderstorms hail and violent winds are coming in the early spring. We wanted the roof deck that withstands the most severe weather that the Texas climate could conjure up. So we choose a Stone Coated Steel Roof from Gerard. Ed Horn or Horn Brothers Roofing has installed hundreds of steel roofs. Well, Ed whether it’s a big house like this or any size home roofs really big expense and what you should be really looking for when pick one out for our house?
Ed Horn: Now especially here in Texas we want that could be durable, long lasting. We stand all the elements.
Michael: And well we have hail here plus we have really hot winds for building our project house how does this roof hold up to that?
Ed Horn: This is the great canyon shape by Gerard and this were 26 gauges Gavalum Steel and its got a ceramic stone chips by done so its give a little bit durability and a mass look.
Michael: Okay, and with the chips I guess you can go on really any color that you want in not just the screen that we pick.
Ed Horn: Well, this about different colors, you’ve got some nice browns, a midnight steel is like look so you looks like the groves and make a look the wood shake roof but its made of steel.
Michael: Yeah. Its looks like individual shapes but what is it 3 ½ four feet longs?
Ed Horn: Right, about four-inches long.
Michael: Okay and you say it’s really durable I mean how the hold off with hale because we got that every year.
Ed Horn: Yes, your class for hail rating of this so its guarantee to 2 ½ inches which is golf ball size, so you will save 33% of your insurance.
Michael: So, I take it when the hail hits it is bounces out easily.
Ed Horn: We decided to put a stone code steel roof to the test that Hegan Engineering of Dallas Texas, Hegans equipment that allows engineers to moralize that roof and materials at speeds that recreate the force of a violent hale storm. Let’s go ahead and shot it, Steve if you are ready?
Michael: Yeah I see now, much of the dent but then you got a little place a little bit, nothing big.
Ed Horn: Steel Panels are extremely impact resistant where lead with the damage from almost last in two ½-inch diameter hale stone.
Michael: This shingles aren’t just resistant to eyes they’re also guaranteed not to cracks, split or burn. Fire can quickly melt an ordinary ash fault shingle but stone code steel has a Class A fire already. Which means it’s simply won’t burn, the unique way this roof is install contributes to its durability. Now how is that actually go in? Because I know, that’s important part.
Ed Horn: Actually were using 2x2 system on this roof so it would lock in to the other one and the passion of building this way.
Michael: Okay, so put the fasteners in on the end of here for a high wind to take the shingle off are actually got a break that fastener in half.
Ed Horn: That’s right! It’s been tested in Florida for 120 miles an hour and it gives no problem.
Michael: So, it’s up to a small tornado and the roof still stays on. They install the roof the crew first but the layer of water resistant roofing onto the decking. Then the crew now is down a grid of wood bottoms. These bottoms will serve as a foundation for the Gerard Steel Roof System. However, this roof can also be installed without bounce allowing for installation directly over in existing roof the crew then begins working from the top down. Nailing the shingles to each other, the shingles are anchored to the buttons and an interlocking system. Each new row of shingles fits snugly under the row about. That gives this roof a very high level of weather protection. This process also creates an air pocket between the shingles and the roof deck, which helps with insulation. A ridge then is created at the peak of the house to allow for proper ventilation well Ed we don’t want high utility bills, we don’t want to involve to the attics, we’ve got to let it breathe. How do you do that with metal roof system?
Ed Horn: I think the construction house is really important especially at a building stages so what we do is we get all the high there at the peak of the attic by installing this ridge vent system. We will cut the power out by about the news how to ridge open that up and then start that nice flush the bridge that will hold and system that will go over the hole. Let’s the air flow out that no water can go back in where I working if I can so we have to continue as ridge were going the whole time.
Michael: Now, what do you choose that instead of using like quarry birds on the roof?
Ed Horn: Those are leak potentials and let us don’t get the amount of area that we need.
Michael: Okay, so on this wherever we have a ridge we are going to have a vent letting that hot there around the summer time.
Ed Horn: That’s right, that’s right. And to finish that off will cut this last ridge piece here on the peak and on the top every top of the whole system.
Michael: So what we seeing it that’s work in the whole time.
Ed Horn: Yeah, there is still not here and going underneath there that were going to have a problem.
Michael: That’s right.
Ed Horn: Okay.
Michael: And you recommended for every ridge on the house?
Ed Horn: Every ridge, that’s right.
Michael: Well its looks a gate system. The most common cause of a roof flake occurs where the primary roof made the secondary roof. Shingles need to be cutter an angle in order to properly cover the area where different section of the roof intersect and pass over the metal valley flushing. Well Ed wherever we have two roofs coming together we form a valley and normally that’s were we get our leaks. What do you doing to prevent that from having here?
Ed Horn: Well the canyon shape system is the three-part valley system. We’ve got three power felt over the plywood, the ice and water shield and then the Gerard steel which is also need the 26 gauge steel so it gives you a three part system to cover that the wire drainage.
Michael: Okay now, I’m sure were not going to see the shingles how you put the shingles into that way comes together.
Ed Horn: Yes, the finishing will come to the middle and the next will going to come here immediate so it’s going to be close valid system waters will be drain in the whole sign that you want to see in it.
Michael: Okay, so water will go down in way not inside the house, which you want. Like you said if it’s outside of the trail, we’ve got our ice shield here in the corner and we’ve got the felt under knee so no water in the house.
Ed Horn: That’s right, three parts system is a great protection.
Michael: If you like more information about the Gerard Steel Roofing System, visit Gerard on the internet at gerardusa.com.
