The crew installs and repairs metal roofs from the Wernersville shop across Berks and Lancaster Counties, with the line open at any hour.
Amatucci Roofing installs metal roofing on houses, additions and outbuildings across Berks and Lancaster Counties, working out of a shop in Wernersville. Our roofers measure the deck, price the panels and set a start date in writing.
A metal roof replaces the whole covering, so the visit starts with the deck, the flashing and the shingles underneath. Homeowners receive the panel choices, the colors and the price on one written sheet.
Metal roofing is a roof covering made from steel or aluminum panels and shingles that lock or screw over a prepared deck. Standing seam panels hide their fasteners under raised ribs running from ridge to eave, and exposed fastener panels screw through the face.
Metal shingles copy the look of wood shake and weigh less than asphalt. A metal roof job covers the underlayment, the drip edge, the valley metal and the trim where the roof meets a wall.
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Homeowners pick a metal roof over asphalt for five reasons: lifespan, snow shedding, wind grip, fire resistance and lighter weight.
A metal roof holds its panels through decades of Pennsylvania freeze and thaw, while an asphalt roof reaches the end of its run sooner. Fewer roof tear-offs follow over the life of the house.
Snow slides off a smooth metal slope instead of sitting on the shingles until a thaw. Berks County roofs that shed their load early see less ice building at the eaves and less water backing under the covering.
Standing seam panels clip to the deck along their full length, so wind pulls against a continuous seam rather than a single tab. Storm gusts that strip asphalt tabs from a ridge leave a locked metal seam in place.
Steel and aluminum panels carry no flame, so an ember from a chimney or a brush pile finds nothing to catch. Metal counts as a non-combustible roof covering. Homeowners beside open fields and woodlots weigh that roof detail first.
Metal panels weigh a fraction of an asphalt layer, so the rafters on an older farmhouse carry less load after the change. A light covering also suits porch roofs and additions built on thin framing.
A house calls for a metal roof when the covering overhead has reached its last winters or when the roof shape punishes asphalt. Homeowners notice curled tabs, bare spots where the granules washed into the gutter, and nail heads showing on a low slope. Standing water marks and rust streaks on a porch roof point the same way.
Barn roofs, additions and long sheds take metal well because the runs are simple and the slope is shallow. A homeowner planning another twenty years in the house also reaches the point where one metal roof stands in for two asphalt ones.
