Sweet tea, I appreciate your concern about the gopher tortoises - saving them was our first concern, as well. We actually didn't have any on our lot, after all that; we just had 4 empty burrows! To answer your concerns, though, our wetlands aren't true "wetlands" in that they're not swampy; they're just designated as such, since they're conservation areas and we're not allowed to touch them. They're very scrubby, as well. We actually have many, many gopher tortoises in our community, and most of them live in the scrubby "wetlands" and just come out to browse. We had to relocate one tortoise from the middle of the road last weekend :) (We just helped him across the road - we're those permit cheaters you spoke about, but I can't stand to see them get killed). We definitely got the appropriate permits, etc., to relocate the tortoises to the undevelopable part of our property. We love those little guys, and are always pulling over to get them out of the highways here when we see them in danger. I saw one get crushed a few weeks ago, and it was very upsetting. But we always just walk them across the street whenever we can, to keep them from getting killed. Sorry to deviate from the original thread, but I just wanted to let you know that our gopher tortoises were all okay. Well, we didn't have any, but they would have been okay - no actual "wetlands" :) Regarding the original post, I wanted to add that our metal roof came from Southeastern Metals. Cheers! Heather W Here is a link that might be useful: Our ICF Home Construction Journal

In August 2011 we had the Decra steel shingle in Canyon Brown installed on our roof. We live in Nebraska on a hill where it's very windy. We are very pleased with the Decra- no more shingles flapping in the wind. They look just like a shingle. We haven't had hail, huge snow load or even measurable rain (we're in a terrible drought) so I can't attest to how well they hold up under extreme conditions, but there are several households & businesses in our area who are using them. They were definitely more expensive than asphalt shingles but our old shingles were part of the Certainteed class action lawsuit and we didn't want to go with asphalt again. My husband says it's harder to walk on the roof because there's a slight cushion to them. Has the contractor doing the work installed them before? we did see one instance where a contractor seemed to have "waves" in the panels because of the way they were installed, so check out the contractors work beforehand. This is the only picture I have - it was taken last May, about the last time we had rain (hence the green lawn). Oh my - if you saw it now :(

We had a new roof put on our house at the end of January 2016. We went with a Gerard Stone Coated Steel roof, and we chose the Canyon Shake in the color Timberwood. I don't have a decent photo to attach - sorry. I do know the company merged with another and it is now known as Boral, and the Canyon Shake is now called Pine-Crest Shake. This is a photo that I saved from the Gerard website when we were making our decision what color to get. This is the Timberwood color: Edited to add that we love our roof, and are extremely happy that we chose the metal roof rather than any type of composition roof. We have the best-looking roof in the area. :-)

My brother got the shingle style metal roof. Supposed to resemble shakes. They do have more texture than a standing sea roof has and the shakes seem to accumulate debris, leafs and such. The standing seam wouldn't have that problem. Since the standing seam are larger sheets and less areas where things could go wrong I would have to think less worries about any failure areas. They are totally different looks.