However, many homeowners still have a hard time accepting metal on their houses. The New Katech is a new profile for Steel Tile. We felt this would be an ideal project to apply this new profile. It has the look of a Spanish Tile roof, and the appearance and style really appealed to me, and it looks great on my new home. Today homeowners believe that a metal roof system is either too expensive, or the biggest misconception being that it is too noisy, which is not true.
People remember the old steel barns, and the rain drumming on the roof.
With today's construction practices for insulating the homes, the sound is no greater than leaving your windows and doors open on the house as a car drives down the street. With the finishes available to us, today's steel roofing is very durable. With the steel we use to manufacture Steel Tile, being a 26-gauge, hot dipped galvanized steel, then finished with either the PVC Barrier Series paint or the 10000 Series PVF2 Kynar 500 paint, this is a very durable product. These paints incorporate a ceramic color pigment, providing finishes that are not prone to the fading characteristics experienced with other paints. At only one pound per square foot, Steel Tile is a relatively light weight material to be installed on a roof.