How A Metal Roof Can Help Protect The Environment

Corrugated roofing sheets offer a range of benefits compared to a traditional shingle or flat roof, such as ease of both installation and repair, as well as a lower overall lifetime cost compared to shingles.

However, a metal roof can not only help protect your home, office or warehouse but can also protect the environment and help to reflect and reduce heat.

Metal is an easily recyclable material, and over 70 per cent of metals used in households were recycled. As recycling metal is 95 per cent less energy-intensive than refining new metals, this saves a huge amount of energy.

Most metal roofs use some recycled metal, and not only does a metal roof last for such a long time that it saves energy on repairs and refurbishments, but can also be recycled once it has finally worn out after between 30 and 50 years.

Part of this is caused by a combination of the material and the coatings which make metal roofs resistant to fire, infestation, rot, damp and strong weather.

As well as this, if a metal roof is painted a light colour, it will reflect incoming sunlight, unlike other roofing types which tend to collect heat into a pitched roof.

By contrast, asphalt shingles, another popular roofing material, are made using oil-based products, are often destined for the landfill or for concrete mixtures, absorb far more heat and put more strain on air conditioning and cooling systems, and last considerably less time compared to a metal roof.