The Looks They Offer
A major appeal of these products is the range of traditional looks they provide, and knowing them helps a Bluffton homeowner. Here are the styles they can mimic.
Shingle Look
Metal shingles can mimic the appearance of traditional asphalt shingles, giving a home the familiar shingled look while delivering metal's durability and longevity. For a homeowner who likes the conventional shingle appearance but wants metal's performance, this option provides it. The shingle look is one of the most common traditional appearances these products offer. It delivers a familiar roof with metal underneath. It looks like shingles, lasts like metal.
Tile Look
Stone-coated steel and metal shingles can replicate the look of clay or concrete tile, offering the distinctive tile appearance without tile's weight, at metal's durability. For a home suited to a tile aesthetic, such as Mediterranean or Spanish styles, this provides the look with metal's benefits and less weight. The tile look is a popular choice among these products. It captures tile's appearance in a lighter, durable form. It mimics tile beautifully.
Slate Look
These products can also mimic natural slate, providing slate's elegant, upscale appearance without slate's weight and at metal's durability and lower cost. For a home that would suit slate but where slate's weight or cost is prohibitive, metal offers the look more practically. The slate look brings an elegant appearance with metal's advantages. It replicates slate's beauty affordably and durably. It looks like slate, performs like metal.
Shake Look
Metal shingles and stone-coated steel can replicate the look of wood shake, offering the rustic, textured shake appearance without wood's maintenance, fire risk, and decay, at metal's durability. For a home suited to a shake aesthetic, metal provides the look with far better performance and safety. The shake look combines rustic appeal with metal's benefits. It captures shake's character without wood's drawbacks. It mimics shake durably and safely.
Variety of Choices
Across these looks, a homeowner has variety, choosing the traditional appearance that suits the home, all backed by metal's performance. Whether the home calls for shingles, tile, slate, or shake, there is likely a metal product that provides the look. This variety is part of the appeal of metal shingles and stone-coated steel. They offer a range of traditional appearances with metal underneath. The choices suit many homes.
The Looks, in Short
Metal shingles and stone-coated steel can mimic asphalt shingles, clay or concrete tile, natural slate, and wood shake, offering a range of traditional appearances. Each provides the chosen look with metal's durability, longevity, and performance underneath.
One point worth making clear for Bluffton homeowners is that the assumption many people hold, that choosing a metal roof means accepting the sleek, modern look of standing seam or the industrial look of exposed panels, is no longer true, because metal shingles and stone-coated steel offer metal's performance in the appearance of traditional roofing materials. This matters because it removes what is, for many homeowners, the main reason they hesitate to consider metal at all, the look. Some homeowners genuinely prefer the appearance of standing seam, and for them the standard metal options are perfect. But many others want a roof that looks conventional, that fits a traditional home or a neighborhood where standing seam would stand out, or that simply matches their personal taste for a familiar shingled, tiled, or shake appearance. For these homeowners, metal shingles and stone-coated steel bridge the gap, delivering metal's genuine benefits, a lifespan far beyond asphalt, strong weather resistance, low maintenance, in the form of roofing that looks like asphalt shingles, clay or concrete tile, natural slate, or wood shake. Stone-coated steel achieves this with a steel base for strength and longevity topped by a coating of stone granules that gives the textured, conventional appearance, while metal shingles are formed and finished to resemble traditional materials. The result is that a homeowner no longer has to choose between metal's performance and a traditional look, they can have both. For homes suited to the look of heavy materials like tile or slate, there is an added practical benefit, since the metal versions are considerably lighter than the genuine materials, providing the appearance without imposing their heavy weight on the structure.
It also helps Bluffton homeowners to understand where metal shingles and stone-coated steel fit among the roofing options, since they occupy a specific and useful niche that is worth weighing against the alternatives. On one side are the standard metal options, standing seam and exposed-fastener panels, which deliver metal's performance with metal's characteristic appearance, sleek and modern or functional and rustic, and which are often more economical than the traditional-look products. On another side are the genuine traditional materials themselves, real clay or concrete tile, natural slate, and wood shake, each of which offers its authentic qualities but comes with its own considerations, tile and slate are heavy and require a structure that can bear the weight, slate is costly, and wood shake demands maintenance and carries fire and decay concerns. And on a third side is asphalt, the most economical option, which provides a conventional look but with a much shorter lifespan than metal. Metal shingles and stone-coated steel sit in the middle of all this, offering the traditional appearance of those conventional materials combined with metal's durability, longevity, lighter weight than the heavy genuine materials, and low maintenance, generally at a premium over basic metal panels and asphalt but often at a lower cost than genuine slate. So they make the most sense for a homeowner who specifically wants both a traditional look and metal's lasting performance, and whose budget supports the premium for that combination. A contractor who installs these products along with standard metal and other roofing can help a homeowner weigh honestly whether traditional-look metal, standard metal, a genuine material, or asphalt best fits their home, their taste, and their budget.
One point worth making clear for Bluffton homeowners is that the assumption many people hold, that choosing a metal roof means accepting the sleek, modern look of standing seam or the industrial look of exposed panels, is no longer true, because metal shingles and stone-coated steel offer metal's performance in the appearance of traditional roofing materials. This matters because it removes what is, for many homeowners, the main reason they hesitate to consider metal at all, the look. Some homeowners genuinely prefer the appearance of standing seam, and for them the standard metal options are perfect. But many others want a roof that looks conventional, that fits a traditional home or a neighborhood where standing seam would stand out, or that simply matches their personal taste for a familiar shingled, tiled, or shake appearance. For these homeowners, metal shingles and stone-coated steel bridge the gap, delivering metal's genuine benefits, a lifespan far beyond asphalt, strong weather resistance, low maintenance, in the form of roofing that looks like asphalt shingles, clay or concrete tile, natural slate, or wood shake. Stone-coated steel achieves this with a steel base for strength and longevity topped by a coating of stone granules that gives the textured, conventional appearance, while metal shingles are formed and finished to resemble traditional materials. The result is that a homeowner no longer has to choose between metal's performance and a traditional look, they can have both. For homes suited to the look of heavy materials like tile or slate, there is an added practical benefit, since the metal versions are considerably lighter than the genuine materials, providing the appearance without imposing their heavy weight on the structure.
Find Your Traditional Look
Bluffton Metal Roofing installs metal shingles and stone-coated steel in a range of traditional looks across Bluffton and Wells County. Call (765) 676-3491 for a free consultation on metal roofing that gives your home the appearance you want with metal's benefits.