In my opinion, adding ventilation behind your metal roof is an excellent idea. I never understood that we vent the wall, but not the roof when you receive all you water on it. Take care Matt!

As a solar business owner with over 40,000 installations, I’ll say we always get excited when we can work with standing seam. Its the best roof type for solar and makes far far more sense than solar roof tiles or punching holes in a 3 tab

Great point on the drip edge, Tom Silva always uses a thumbs width away from the fascia, to avoid the water getting stuck in between the two and causing rot.

3:48 the face that Matt gives his subs when they've not done quality work. Thanks for the explanation from Sheffield for the different finishes, and explaining the details on all things needed for a great roofing system.

People made fun of my tin roof. Guess who didn't need a new roof in the last 6 years after the last 3 hail storms and high winds from a tornado. I had a large branch fall on the house. No real damage. Couple scratches. Guy down the street had a hole thru his ceiling and roof. He came and asked me about metal roofs after that and I helped him put one on his house too. Metal roofs FTW.

Out of all the variety of channels I watch on KZfaq, I always learn and take something away from yours. Thank you for such good informative channel.

Big ups to the producers, the quality of the shooting and the editing work on this one is really good. Nice work y'all!!

I bet Kyle at @RR Buildings would love that metal forming trailer

It was good to be back on the jobsite with you talking metal, Matt! Looking forward to the next project! -Thad

It's a THING OF BEAUTY, Matt. LUV all the close-up details. Such exquisite craftsmanship!

Im so going to make a architect watch all Matts videos on his own house to design my home! With the addition of a interior above ground tornado shelter!

Matt: Talking about all the ways he is reducing heat with this roof. Also Matt: I have a black roof! YOLO! lol

After yesterday’s hail storm, I’m looking into metal roofing. Perfect timing.

I wanted to learn more about that robot. Like, he teased it and then just glossed over it. I haz a sad

It would be great to see some details on the Coravent and installation.

You and R&R buildings did a couple of shows about post and metal buildings. But, you do a lot of shows about perfect wall construction. With building supplies getting expensive, can you do an episode about how one might go about perfect wall in a post-frame steel building?

Great. makes me like our black 24 gauge metal roof we just installed on our new build in Wyoming. With all the snow, hail, and cold it was a great investment.. We wanted a little extra heat from the roof. Done and never to worry about it for 30 years

Just outside of Austin city limits where some hail just hit recently. I would love to get a new metal roof with all the venting details. It would likely help with heat in the summer compared to my current asphalt roofing especially with my poorly insulated vaulted ceiling.

Great to see it coming together. Congrats.

Like Brad Gaeth, I'm wondering how you did all your vents. The attic is conditioned, and we've seen the interior of the attic in other shows, so we can tell know you didn't cut corners and vent to the attic :-). I was watching the eves for vents, but didn't see what I guessed might be there. I think a separate show on venting best practices would be well received. In my upcoming project, I'll have a metal roof, and I'm wondering how to do combustion and exhaust air, as well as DWV.

Ice Guard installed onto the eaves (overhangs) is to be wrapped onto fascia and continue at least 2' past the exterior wall and over the heated space beneath. In other words: not just 3 or 4 feet "up the roof" it all depends on how big your overhangs are. When you are dealing with open porches for example you may need 8-10' of Ice Guard or more

Wasps will love that drip edge spacer..

I recently did a metal roof - there's no way, given aesthetic parameters, I'd recommend installing anything else in the future.

More Metal Matt!! 😁 Great to see, construction and tips. Always happy to see some great metal work,.. 👍

Thank you so much for this video. We are moving to Texas and I am planning our self build barndo and this was very helpful for roofing.

If you do this vented drip edge detail, I can guarantee you that you will get condensation dripping out of the the Cor-a-vent in the north, and likely intermittently in the south too. You will see it running down the fascia and onto the surfaces below -- not a big deal if over plantings/grass, but it will be a call-back issue if there is a deck or other hard surface like a patio there. And no, the gutter will not catch this if you have not prepared for this. If you have prepared for this, you would need to add a Z-shaped "kick-out strip" made from the same metal as the roof that would get installed onto the fascial as the first step of the roofing process. This kick-out strip will direct this condensation that happens under metal roofs, into the gutter. It gets nailed onto the top of the fascia, and then taped into the roof deck before the Ice-and-water goes on THEN you do the rest of the roofing detailing as described in the video. "HOW DO I KNOW!?" I've made this mistake before!

Matt: Please provide a close up photo of how your metal roofing is attached to the roof sheathing. Thank you!

Great video, would be interested in why a black roof was chosen rather than a lighter coloured one, would it not get excessively hot in the Texas summers?

i look forward to the solar install

Matt - I'm in Texas as well... Beaumont to be exact. Getting a black standing seam roof installed and the builders couldn't get approval to install solars with the S-5 clamp. They will have to penetrate and screw to the rafters due to the windstorm codes. Just an FYI...

Looks like a great system, and aesthetically pleasing.

Nice video. Roof looks very handsome. 2 items: 1) There was no mention of seam spacing. A black (I assume) aluminum roof will undergo quite a bit of heat related expansion and contraction and you will not want to have any “oil canning”. Seam spacing and material thickness impact this. 3) Matt mentioned 3/12 for his “lower” slope area but later your guest said 2/12. If I’m not mistaken, 3/12 is really the lowest you want to go on and metal roof that is not soldered or otherwise detailed to perform as a membrane that will essentially leak under some circumstances.

Can you do an illustration of all the layers of your roof? Zip, foam, peal&stick, 1x4, air gap, Radiant, metal roof… oh my! That’s a lot of layers!

If you're going to have any holes in the roof it should be for your solar. Check out Zilla for your solar penetration. S-5! have the best mounting brackets, good choice there.

For anyone who is wondering: Matt is indeed right. It doesn't matter which way you put on the radiation barrier, as long as the reflective side faces the air gap. At first I thought he put it on the wrong way, so I looked it up. An ideal reflective body (which does not exist) will neither absorb, nor emit any thermal radiation. In his case, the radiation barrier will get hot due to thermal conduction, but it will not radiate into the air gap, because of the highly reflective surface. This even works the other way around, because any thermal radiation coming from the inner part of the roof will be reflected back. The air gap itself however will do almost nothing to remove heat by ventilation. There is so much friction due to the small size of the gap, that there will be no meaningful air flow. That's why it is smart to use a radiant barrier, because this way the air gap can provide at least some thermal insulation.

In east tx most roofs that blow off you see 1x4 under it catches wind but I’m sure this guy is nailing and screwing the metal down better

I'm considering a similar roof insulation. I don't understand why you still need an air gap when everything is sealed up so tight...wouldn't you just make sure water can't get in by sealing the ridge cap? I don't see any way water can penetrate the metal roof and if you can keep it out, there is no need for air gap/venting right? I'm for being cautious, but I have to be able to justify the extra time and expense when I just don't see any way to trap water in there. Can you explain this more?

Been watching every step of the house, major house envy. Would love a website outline for each phase of this huge project. Everything all in one place and hopefully any blueprints your comfortable sharing. Can't wait to see the final house!

I love metal roofs. My favorite color looks like dark cow dung. I think that color is an attempt to make it look like burnished copper, but I am not sure. Whatever the name of the color, I would say it looks like medium dark bronze color with a hint of green thrown into the mix. It gives a house a really organic natural look.

Heck yes on S5! Solar clamps, glad you are looking at clean energy for that already high performance house! -solar professional

"Let's Get Going" - Standing seam metal roof is the most solar friendly roofing with the S-5 connector.

would be really cool to see a micro inverter solar system on that roof and the install process :D

it is the high tech Zinger at it again....only the best for that boy!.....

Hi, I'm Matt Risinger, and here's my one-hundred-thousand-dollar, ten-layer roof!

Well done again. I have a design-build house coming up in east Texas and I'll present this type of roof to the owner. I'm more of a commercial contractor and your videos have helped me brush up on building houses. It's been since the '80s for me to build houses. I do have a series of videos coming that might fill some voids for people on the building of their homes. Design-build pre-construction, value engineering items. I start off with a series of structural failures and lessons learned for 4 successive weeks. The first video I just published is about a structural failure that resulted in 2209 lives lost. Informative and educational for us in the building industry. Just following Matt's lead, educational and informative.

Very nice prep work bfore the double seam roof Matt. 👍👏 To bad the double seam work is kinda porly done, not that final touch that we do all the time in northern europe. This looks lika a DIY job overhere sorry to say.

With a black roof and the obvious heat generated, have you thought about capturing the hot air during winter? Maybe it could be directed to a heat exchanger to heat your hot water or house? Might as well use it if you can since you've isolated it from your roof.

Why wouldn’t all the condensation from the metal roof not rot the 1 x 4 strips?

‘Oooooooooooonnn the build show’

I just priced this September 2022 for a 55 square roof. $105,000 for the roof and $18,500 for the air gap framing details. An architectural shingle roof with full ice/water peel & stick came in at $38,000.

@Matt Risinger You have mentioned a few times about limiting roof penetrations. It appears you have one pipe/flue penetrating the roof. What is that pipe for and what other design challenges did you have with the others pipes wanting access to the outdoors up top? What kind of compromises did you have to make to limit the number of penetrations?

I would have expected integrated solar panels into roofing tiles from Matt 😆

Love the radiant with the black. Black is undo-able without radiant in TX 👍

killing it dude!!!! youve deeply penetrated this vid!

THANKS! I'm planning on metal (Southern California) DYI (I need to have this be my last roof)

Bravo, for the air gap. Bravo, for radiant barrier, shiny side down; you're gonna need it because that black metal will heat up on sunny days to a very high temperature; but the radiant barrier will block irradiation of lower elements... to the extend that conduction does not defeat the radiant barrier.

if water gets under the metal how does it flow out? it seems like the diagonal boards would soak it up and the drip edge would work to keep it under the metal.

5:33 , 6:04 , 6:10 . . . It is required that every cramped material is both ventilated and not under tension. Thank you very much, Mr. Risinger.

I had a retrofit to standing seam in 2019. The roofer got a precut system and they shipped the wrong dripedge, the supplier was nice enough to come out and make it on site , those machines are pretty nice. The seamless gutter guys use the same material now so you can get a color match without much fuss. I have a high pitch roof and wish they would have warned me how slick it was going to be, its like a row of slides on your roof. If i had known i would have had them put in some permanent harness anchors. I went standing seam because not only was it time to replace the shingle but i was planning on putting solar on and i likeed the ridge mount system. No sense in putting 25 year solar on a 15 year roof.

Excellent stuff

Love metal roofs, also like contrasting this system with the metal roof system one of my other favorite channels, the Perkins Builder Brothers, recently did on their home under construction. I'm just soaking in the information.

I understand and love the nice air flow system you have going on but I’m shocked that you didn’t get striations 🤯. Oil caning is REAL. Striation are needed to prevent the metal from looking wavy.

I bet this house would easily cost $500 per square foot if someone had to pay full price for all of the materials. I would love to have a house built with these materials and specs, but there is not a chance I could afford it.

Hey Matt, Thank you as always. I wish you would have shown the detail on how the roof air flow mesh meets the upper wall. How do you use the corrugated plastic to allow the vapor from the roof to vent upwards?

'Don't say "bomber", you're not a tween.' Some hilarious commenter in a previous video.

Ooooooonnn the build show , awesome haha

Here in Europe we do a 2"x2" frame under ceramic tile roofing for ventilation. Although creamic/concrete tiles are preffered here over metal roofing, mostly because they damp noise better.

Matt, I am looking to install a metal roof -- using steel or aluminum "shakes" -- I like your idea of allowing air-flow under the metal roofing. I also think that the 1x4 on a steep roof is quite clever and they 45 degree angle is an amazing twist.... Question = what was done at the eves and rakes with the 1/4? is there a product used at the eve to fit between the 1x4's or it that the plastic strips you show in the video that are nailed to the barge board prior to the install of the drip edge/caps? For the rake is there a 1x4 that runs parallel to the rake for the full length of the rake edge? Last question, how far apart are the 1x4's spaced? Great video -- I hope you see my questions and answer soon... Retired Person in KY

Matt, with lumber prices moving to insanely high levels are you feeling pressure to move towards ICF builds? Would be interested to hear your take on the lumber market impacting construction costs and how it is affecting your clients/builds.

The cost is key decision factor. In the beginning cost was stated as one of goals of this video. Can you tell us the cost?

Just used s5s last week they are great!

Great design tips

Would love to see a section view of this roof down to the first layer of sheathing, has to be 12 layers of materials?

I watch a house flip channel where he had to deal with solar panels on an old roof and the cost to replace the roof was several thousand dollars higher due to having to remove and replace the panels, so a new metal roof is the best time and roof type to add solar, otherwise you're better off putting it on ground level scaffolding in your back yard.

great info! could you take a closer look at the details for the skylights? the example on my roof is more so how not to do it... also any recommendations on how to tie in once a metal roof is installed on high pitch area?

1. How does the mesh stay lofted when you screw the metal down? 2. How do you not destroy all of the benefits of the metal roofing by perforating it with screws?

You had me at Black Metal💀

You'd think in Texas for Energy and Environment issues you'd have chosen a white or light roofing color - reflecting heat back away from the earth and your building. It's Code in some California municipalities - understanding the design for your color, of course.

If you use open cell spray foam insulation you are introducing moisture to the underside of the roof deck. If you use an ice and water underlayment that moisture cannot get thru the roof sheathing to be carried away thru ventilation. How are you then venting the roof to prevent degradation of the roof deck?

Why didn't "t you put the radiant barrier facing up where you installed diagonal 1x4s? Isn't that the 3/4" air gap side., or does the foil work when upside down too?.

Aren’t you worried about the roof deck breathing? It seems like that could be the downside to ice and water shield in the whole thing

I gather that you had to calculate the spacing for your diagonal furring strips to coincide with the screw spacing required for the panels.

Funny I just got a quote for a metal roof on my small 1000sqft rental house. Shocked the crap out of me at $22,500 for a super simple roof job. Looks like I’m gona wait a while to see if steel prices come down before deciding what to do.

Vieles davon war vor 15 Jahren schon Standard in Österreich. Aber mit einer ordentlichen Hinterlüftung und Dachdurchbrüchen mit Metall Einfassung. Lg aus Österreich

Fansastic video! I thought code required R38 in a roof or some such. You have only R20.

You need to do a video on reducing roof vents.

Almost exactly what I used on our house and 3 car garage in SE Kansas. I installed ice shield first, 1x4 pt horizontally every 16" up the roof and then the standing seam metal panels. My panels snapped together without hidden fasteners and I did the 1x4 to get the "trampoline effect" when it hails.

I'm trying to design a similar roof on my future house and like the idea of air ventilation under the roof. I had originally thought that furring strips would be the way to go but my roof will only be 1:12 and 2:12 pitch. Therefore I may use the ventilation underlayment mentioned in the video. Does anyone know if the roof can be walked on once the metal is installed? Or will it result in the roof deforming/bending because of the underlayment? Nothing lasts forever so someone will eventually have to get up on the roof--I just want to make sure it doesn't deform.

The corrugated plastic is commonly referred to as Coroplast but that is really the largest brand name like klenex is. I bet coravent would not like you to call it that tho.

Did you raise you skylight curbs an extra 3/4 in to compensate for the rain screen?

Was zip sheeting used on the roof? Just curious as to why the use of shark skin was used of zip board was integrated in the build.

Hi Matt!! So did anything happen to your roof after the hail storm that just hit the Austin area? Any advice on what we should look for and do when we replace our shingle roof’s after a storm like that?

Matt, in the beginning of the video you said you were going to talk price. I think you missed that part.

Great Video. Have you ever looked at Decra steel roofing?

Very nice roof.

I was hoping you'd discuss "solar strip" panels for standing seam.

Matt, I'm a new home builder and been doing some recon work lately scoping out my competition on arkansas and honestly I'm disgusted by the quality or lack of. I wanted to reach out and hope that you see this message, I'd love to fly out to Texas and check out one of your home builds to make sure I'm not missing any important details before I embark on this 150 home sub division I'll be working on for myself.

Tesla solar shingles install someday?

Cool video! Thanks.

can you explain how this type of roof handles hail? looks like it would easily dent