Talk:Metal roof

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Dear Editors: I would like to add an external link to this page under the "Further Reading" section that I think would be of interest to anyone involved with metal roofing.

We have a Metal Roof Color Simulator on our website that shows users what a particular color would look like on the home pictured. There is a wide selection of colors in varying shades.

The URL is:

http://www.advancedmetalroofing.com/metal-roof-colors.asp

and the link could be called: "Metal Roofing Colors"

Since I help maintain this site, I thought it would be a conflict of interest to add it myself but I hope you concur as to the usefulness and relevancy of the external web page.NCcoast (talk) 19:32, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I edited the page to correct about 6 spelling errors. I also removed some statements that were simply hype and untrue. This page still needs some work.

Needs total overhaul
The article as it is now is nothing but a piece of marketing for Metal roofing companies. And it only deals with the US. This really needs to be completely rewritten to make it neutral and worthy of actually being an encyclopaedia article. --Hibernian (talk) 00:33, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed; while sadly my docket is backlogged at the moment, I really like the topic. Will try to get to it when I can! Morgan Riley (talk) 03:08, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Abbreviations
I have just filled the copy edit request for this entry, but would like to suggest that someone please elucidate two obscure abbreviations in the following sentence in the section on coatings: "The most popular oils are lemon oil, U.S.P., lemongrass oil, Native E.I., paraffin oils, linseed oil, and castor oil."

Help please: what is U.S.P.? What is Native E.I.? A Google search failed to produce any convincing explanation appropriate to this context.

Thanks in advance for any assistance here. --Remotelysensed (talk) 13:57, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I think this is the answer: U.S.P. is United States Patent; lemongrass oil Native E.I. is lemongrass Native Essential India. You may see lemongrass oil.--Dafne07 (talk) 17:07, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * No, U.S.P. is United States Pharmacopeia nothing to do with patents. This is a book specifying the labeling, quality and testing of substances that can be used as medicines. The lemongrass oil reference would appear to be of an orgin or quality "east indian", see https://www.vigon.com/product/lemongrass-oil-east-indian-fcc/. The "FCC" would refer to Food Chemicals Codex; usually a food-quality standard attached to U.S.P. but could also be an Indian codex. In any case these quality standards would not appear to be necessary to the use as a roof coating, and that sentence will be edited.71.230.16.111 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 02:21, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Aluminium, bitumen, steel laminate sheets, Monel sheeting
I recall about 12 years ago researching corrugated steel roofing materials and one particular product appealed to me.

It was a product made by Onduline that was a standard galvanised steel profile that had an added, rather interesting, cladding on it. It had a textured, coloured aluminium foil over a bitumen layer on the top surface and a natural aluminium foil over bitumen on the under side. I have tried to find mention of this on the internet and have failed. Onduline have moved onto corrugated fibre bitumen composite corrugated sheets and no longer mention any corrugated metal sheets. I wonder is such historical metal roof cladding system is worthy of mention. I recently came across my samples and was reminded of the product and wondered if any equivalent product was available anywhere.

I also came across a mention of metal roofs made from what might these days be an expensive option. They were made of monel and advertised to last a long time. I had a magazine clipping from the 1970's I think it was that has an advert for the product with a case study on some government building in Canada I think it was. It might be nice to make mention of this as well. I think it was a vertical seam structure but my memory is a bit hazy on this. The roofing application is mentioned on the monel wiki page. Idyllic press (talk) 18:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Up to ... or more
Regarding "Standing seam metal roofs come in sheets up to or sometimes more than 30 feet". The phrase up to tells us that 30 ft is the maximum - but wait - sometimes they are longer? Not sure how to fix this, but the way it's currently written is contradictory and meaningless. Indefatigable (talk) 19:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)