Roofing Advice Needed!

[knitty kitty]

My house has a metal roof installed over a regular roof.  

Seems the metal roof is leaking down the midline ridge and the underneath roof is leaking, especially around the chimney.  

I've had five people out to "repair" various places over the past several years, but it's still leaking.  

What should I do???

Should the metal roof come off and be replaced with another regular roof?  

Any advice would be welcome.

[Scott Adams]

I'm definitely no roofing expert, but did have a similar situation on my 1967-built track home here in Santa Rosa, although I did not have a metal roof. Our original roof was wood shingle, and they had put a composite roof over the top of it sometime in the late 80's. What we had done was:

1) Tear off both roofs;

2) Lay down new plywood over the entire roof because with the original shingle roof they had gaps built into the roof to accommodate the shingles.

3) Install a new composite ("lifetime") roof.

Hopefully you won't have to do all of that, but your leaking situation sounds similar to ours, especially around our chimney.

What kind of metal roof do you have, as metal roofs are not very common here outside of industrial buildings.

[knitty kitty]

What a wonderful idea!  Just be done with both of them! 

I live in the South, so metal roofs are fairly common on residential property.  

I think a metal roof was a bad decision for this house.  It's a ranch style with the length of it facing the direction the wind comes from, like a long airplane wing.... After storms and high wind, I frequently find roofing nails from the metal roof on the ground.  It's a bit worrisome.  

Just need to figure out financing and we'll be in good to go!

Thank you so much!

[Scott Adams]

It seems like metal roofs would get really hot, but who knows? With our composite roof we were able to pick out a lighter colored shingle, so it helped to keep the house cooler. I also know that since we did ours (or course) several companies offer solar shingles, including Tesla:
https://www.tesla.com/solarroof 

[knitty kitty]

Tesla solar panels sound pretty ingenious, especially if they would charge up electric cars...

 

[Scott Adams]

They would power your entire home, and charge the car! There are other companies also making them, but if I were doing a new roof now, I'd be looking at this as a possibility.

[knitty kitty]

I spoke with my insurance agent to get recommendations for roofers.  Her response was to get a contractor from out of state because the local ones aren't great. 

So, any recommendations would be appreciated.  

Composite tiles and Tesla solar panels.....