Pompano Metal Roofing: Standing Seam, 5V Crimp & Stone-Coated Steel Roof Installation

Standing seam is the panel most homeowners picture when they ask for "a metal roof". Long flat pans run from ridge to eave and lock together at raised seams, and the clips that hold them down sit inside those seams, out of the weather. In the HVHZ the steel has to be at least 26 gauge with G-90 coating and aluminum at least 0.025 inch. Seams are either snapped together or mechanically folded with a seaming tool, and the approval document for the system says which one your roof needs.

Price is the main drawback. Cost guides put standing seam at $8 to $16 a square foot installed for steel and $10 to $17 for aluminum. On a 2,000 sq ft roof, that is about $16,000 to $34,000 before any deck repair.

See standing seam metal roofs in Pompano Beach for gauges, seam types and finishes, or metal roof installation for how a new roof goes on from deck to final inspection.

5V crimp is the old Florida panel. It has two small V-shaped ribs per sheet and is screwed straight through the face into the deck. It's the classic roof on older Florida cottages and porches. Because every screw goes through the panel, 5V costs less than standing seam: guides give $5 to $12 a square foot for exposed-fastener roofs, and Angi puts them 30% to 50% below hidden-fastener systems.

The trade-off is upkeep. The screw washers dry out in the sun over the years and need checking, and a 5V roof that misses that work starts leaking at its fasteners.

See 5V crimp metal roofing for screw patterns, finishes and what upkeep to expect.

Pompano Beach has a lot of salt water: the Atlantic on one side and the Intracoastal and its canals running through the east half of town. Near salt water, aluminum is the safer metal. Galvalume steel is cheaper and stiffer, but salt spray attacks its coating, and manufacturers write that into their warranties. McElroy voids its paint warranty on Galvalume installed 1,500 feet or less from salt water. Englert offers no Galvalume warranty within half a mile of the coast and shortens its aluminum coverage there too.

Before you sign, ask which warranty applies at your address and have the distance written on the quote. The fasteners have to match the system too. The product approval names them. Where it doesn't, the code accepts stainless on any metal roof and calls for aluminum fasteners on aluminum roofs over aluminum supports.

See aluminum roofing in Pompano Beach for mill versus painted finishes and fastener choices near the water.

Stone-coated steel is pressed into the shape of barrel tile, shake or shingle and coated in a layer of mineral granules. It suits an owner who likes how a tile roof looks but wants a lighter covering, or whose HOA wants that look kept. HomeGuide lists it at about $7 to $13 a square foot installed. It has more joints than standing seam, and those joints need care around valleys and walls.

See stone-coated steel roofing to compare the tile, shake and flat profiles.

Metal shingles are small interlocking steel or aluminum pieces stamped to look like shake, slate or asphalt shingle. They usually cost less than standing seam, about $6 to $14 a square foot on HomeGuide's figures, and they are the one metal product the HVHZ code allows over a single existing layer of asphalt shingles on a solid deck. A tear-off still has one advantage: the deck can be checked and renailed.

See metal shingles for the slate, shake and asphalt looks.

Plenty of metal roofs replace a tired concrete tile or shingle roof. That conversion is a full reroof. The old roof comes off, the plywood deck is inspected and renailed to current code, a new underlayment is installed and inspected, and only then do the panels go on. Tear-off by itself runs about $1 to $3 a square foot on guide figures, and replacing rotten sheathing about $2 to $5 a square foot. Leaving either off the quote is how a "cheap" metal roof gets expensive halfway through.

See tile-to-metal roof conversion for the tear-off and transition details, and metal roof replacement when the old roof is already metal.

Most metal roof leaks start at the same few places: failed screw washers, loose or rusted fasteners, open lap seams, and flashing around walls, pipes and skylights. Typical repairs run $300 to $1,500. Re-screwing a roof costs about $150 to $1,000 and resealing seams $250 to $1,100. Because the HVHZ code limits a repair to 25% of the roof in 12 months, a big repair on an older roof can turn into a replacement. That rule is narrower now for roofs built to the 2007 code or later (see the things-to-know section below).

See metal roof repair for fasteners, clips and panels, or metal roof leak repair if water is already getting in.

An older metal roof that is sound but chalky or lightly rusted can often be cleaned, primed and coated instead of replaced. Guides put coatings at about $0.50 to $4 a square foot. Coating won't fix rusted-through panels or a bad deck, so a roofer should check both before quoting it.

See metal roof coating and painting for coating types, and metal roof cleaning when the panels only need washing.

Copper rarely covers a whole house here. It shows up on bay windows, entry towers, porch roofs and cupolas, often beside a tile or white metal main roof. It costs $1,300 to $3,000 per 100 square feet installed on HomeGuide's figures, so most owners keep it to the small, visible pieces. In the HVHZ, copper flashing and trim have to be at least 16-ounce material.

See copper roofing in Pompano Beach for bay windows, porticos and cupolas.