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Housing - Renovation: Composite steel roof

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    I have approval to convert some old stone barns from agricultural to residential use. Currently the buildings have some quite recently applied plastic coated steel sheets which were put on when the old plain tiled roof started to break up. I am wondering is anyone has any experience of using a composite metal sheet with built in insulation on a residential building. It is becoming the norm with industrial units but I am not aware of seeing it used on houses.
    • CommentAuthorTimber
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2012
     
    Might be a possibilty assuming you can get a good enough U-Value with them.

    Other considerations are noise and fire regulations if the barns are to be multi occupancy.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012
     
    You cd use it as base for say 150 EPS applied externally, breather felt over, fix downslope battens by long screws thro the EPS to the metal, then tile and batten. presumably the rafters are exposed internally - nice - glue plasterboard to the metal soffit between the rafters.
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012
     
    For houses usually planners wont allow steel sheet industrial roofing especially in towns. I have used it on a community building, instant roof pre finished on the underside, straight up to regs, no thermal bridging, fast, trusses visible inside was the downside.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: tonyFor houses usually planners wont allow steel sheet industrial roofing especially in towns
    Builder an02ew of this forum and I have just completed this little one, with brown plastisol'd trad-section corrugated iron roof @ 12.5o pitch.
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    Thanks for comments
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012
     
    That stuff is not composite is it, I have used similar ones on non domestic buildings though.

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