Metrotile Lightweight Roofing - The Rooftop Has Evolved

Metrotile Lightweight Steel Roofing System’s popularity continues to grow throughout the UK, with ‘The Future Proof Roof’ finding favour with a full spectrum of clients including Housing Associations, Local Authorities, Architects, Self Builders (and all points in between) as a high-quality roofing material featuring many benefits that simply cannot be found with ‘traditional’ roofing products.

The benefits start at the steel itself - the highest quality drawing grade 3 steel, galvanized with  Aluzinc and finished with a stone and acrylic coating that enables and industry leading forty year weatherproof guarantee while also ensuring the rooftop will require near-zero maintenance in its lifetime.

The benefits continue when The Future Proof Roof is transported to site. Weighing up to a seventh of comparable traditional roofing materials, a Metrotile roof requires greatly reduced transport requirements, is easy to store on site and can be installed to the rooftop rapidly, meaning that internal trades can begin work inside the buildings sooner. In addition, Metrotile can specify the Metrotile Secure Solution, which uses double-thick .900mm profiles - for areas where extra security is needed, such as when there is a need for increased rooftop foot traffic or if there are concerns about vandalism.

These are just some of the benefits that have lead to specifiers across the country turning to Metrotile for their roofing requirements. During the past few years, the use of Metrotile Lightweight Roofing has helped many building projects to attain such standards as Code for Sustainable Homes, Better Homes and Decent Homes, with many Housing Associations witnessing this first hand and returning to the product time and time again as a result. This includes such esteemed HAs as New Charter Housing Trust, Orkney Housing, Tai Calon Housing.

The most recent HA to choose Metrotile Lightweight Steel Roofing is Valley 2 Coast Housing Association, who specified Metrotile for a series of BISF refurbishments in Maesteg, Wales. The Metrotile .900 extra-secure system was specified in Maesteg, offering numerous benefits including the ability to retrofit a Solar Panel system on to each rooftop, rejuvenating each home in the process.

Metrotile doesn’t just provide roof tile profiles - they are the one stop required for your rooftop and can supply everything you require including bespoke accessories such as roof windows from leading manufacturers Keylite and Velux, high quality vapour permeable underlay and the Metrotile Photovoltiac System, all backed by an industry-leading 40 year weatherproof guarantee.