Can Metal Roofing Continue to Capitalize?
With 30-50 year warranties, greater versatility and design options, inclusion as a “green” roofing material, and increasingly manageable costs, it’s easy to see why metal roofing is getting a larger and larger share of the roofing market. What isn’t yet clear is whether metal roofing is persuading homeowners to upgrade from asphalt roofing, or if metal roofing is simply poaching from other high-end roofing options. ServiceMagic leading online resource connecting homeowners to home improvement contractors tracks homeowner requests for specific roofing material installations. This data would seem to indicate that metal roofing is mostly poaching from other high-end roofing. Metal roofing requests jumped from 13,795 in 2007 to 18,814 in 2008. While asphalt roofing made a comparable increase over the same time period, other high-end roofing materials actually lost requests. It’s also worth noting the discrepancy between general roofing and new construction. The Metal Roofing Alliance says
