Has anybody experience of this?

http://www.decra.co.uk/Products/Decra%20Stratos%20Tile.aspx

after living in a 150 year old stone croft house for 21 years with a corrugated iron roof I've become quite fond of steel roofing. It's extremely durable and well suited to our weather (north west Scotland). I have not however become so fond of the meter thick rubble walls, concrete floor and lack of DPC that make our little home an insulators nightmare :-) So I've decided to build another one and quite like the look of this stuff, it's very popular up here, cheaper and less likely to blow off in the frequent storms.

To be honest I'd be happy with 'crinkly tin' but I just don't think it would suit the house that we're going to build.

Cheers, Paul

This is what Paul in Montreal was discussing in http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=5538&page=2#Item_3

Hi aa44,

I must admit that the tile effect ones that I've seen on Skye also seem to gather moss but I was going to go for the slate effect which seem less prone to it. I'm also planning on covering the south facing area with PV and as it's a bungalow I could always power wash it every few years as I'm used to painting my own tin one that often anyway :-)

Paul, Fostertom,

I read that post with great interest (and several others on steel roofs) before posting but I'm particularly interested in Decra because we have a local agent with a good reputation. Of course he swears by it, as do some of his customers that I've spoken to, in fact I've not heard a bad word said about it yet. Was just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience.

Many thanks, Paul