Metal Shingle Roofing in Anchorage & the Mat-Su Valley
Stone-coated steel in shingle, shake, and slate profiles. It looks like a shingle roof from the street, performs like metal, and usually outlasts two asphalt roofs.
Metal shingles are steel panels made to look like a shingle roof. Ours are stone-coated steel: steel with a protective metallic coating and stone granules bonded on top, in shingle, shake, and slate profiles. From the driveway it reads as a shingle roof. Up top it performs like metal, and it lasts somewhere past forty years, which usually means one metal roof outlasts two asphalt roofs. Metal roofing →
What stone-coated steel is rated for
These are the panels’ ratings and warranty numbers. They matter on the Hillside in a Chugach wind event and around Palmer when the Matanuska wind blows.
- Wind uplift. The panels lock together and are built to resist uplift in winds up to 120 mph.
- Wind-driven rain. Tested against wind-driven rain up to 110 mph.
- Impact. Class 4, the top rating, tested with a 2-inch steel ball. Damaging hail is rare here, and the rating is there if it comes.
- Fire. Class A. Untreated cedar carries no fire rating at all.
- Lifespan. Somewhere past forty years. Asphalt up here gets fifteen to twenty-five, depending on the shingle.
How metal shingles handle Alaska snow
Differently from standing seam. The stone texture holds snow more like a shingle roof does, so it tends to let go in smaller slides instead of a whole slope at once. On a house with doors, decks, and meters under the eaves, that’s often the point.
Smaller isn’t harmless. Wet spring snow off a second story can still bury a step or tear a gutter loose, so guards still matter over doors and walkways. Stone-coated steel needs fewer than standing seam, not none. Snow guards →
Can metal shingles go over my old roof?
In many cases, yes. Stone-coated steel can go over one layer of asphalt when that layer is sound and the decking checks out from the attic. That saves the tear-off and the landfill trip. Code generally allows one roof-over, so a house that already has two layers gets torn off first. If the decking needs work, the job becomes a tear-off, and the rotten sheets are replaced, photographed, and included in the price. Roof replacement →
Could yours go over the old roof?
Text a photo of it and we’ll tell you what we see.
Metal shingles vs standing seam
Stone-coated steel
Textured, in shingle, shake, or slate looks. Snow comes off in smaller slides. It fits a house where you want the look of shingles or shake, or where a big slide would land on a door, a deck, or a car.
Standing seam
Smooth painted panels, raised seams, and hidden fasteners. Snow slides off it fastest, so it gets snow guards wherever a slide would land. Standing seam →
Both are steel, both usually outlast two asphalt roofs, and we install both. We’ll tell you which one we’d put on your house, and why.
Are metal shingles loud in the rain?
About as quiet as shingles. We install stone-coated steel over a solid deck and underlayment, and on most houses there’s an attic between the roof and your ceiling. The drumming people remember is bare metal panels on open framing over a shop or a barn. A house roof isn’t built that way.
Shingle, shake, or slate profile
Same steel, same ratings, three looks. The shingle profile reads like an architectural asphalt roof. The shake profile keeps the cedar look without the cedar, and it suits log and timber homes out toward Lazy Mountain and the Butte. Metal shake →
Colors are granule blends, matte and textured. Pick from full-size samples outside in daylight, because low winter light and snow change how a color reads. Colors and finishes →
We install stone-coated steel in Wasilla and Palmer, out through Meadow Lakes to Big Lake, and in Eagle River, Anchorage, and Girdwood.
What a metal shingle roof costs
More than architectural asphalt up front, and the number depends on your roof. Size and pitch. Hips, valleys, dormers, and pipes, which all take trim and flashing. Tear-off or re-roof over one sound layer. Decking, which is included either way. The profile you pick, snow guards, and access: steep driveways and tall walls take more time. We price it after the inspection, in writing, line by line. Metal roof cost →
Every job starts with a free inspection.
Photo report and a written price within 24 hours, and no pressure after it.
Metal shingle questions
The questions we get most often about stone-coated steel roofs in Anchorage and the Valley. Don’t see yours? Text us and a roofer answers.
Text my rooferSomewhere past forty years, which usually means one metal roof outlasts two asphalt roofs. Asphalt here lasts fifteen to twenty-five years, depending on the shingle. The panels are only part of it: every replacement also gets new flashing, ice and water membrane at the eaves and valleys, and ventilation sized to the attic.
Yes, up front. Over forty years the comparison is one metal roof against two asphalt roofs, plus the repairs in between. If you’re selling in a few years or the budget is tight, architectural asphalt can be the better spend, and we’ll tell you so. Either way, the price comes after the inspection, in writing.
Yes. Some loose chips in the gutters and at the downspouts are normal in the first year on a stone-coated steel roof. That’s not a defect. If you see patches where the stone is gone on an older roof, text us a photo and we’ll take a look.
The look. Both are stone-coated steel with the same ratings: Class 4 impact, Class A fire, and panels built to resist uplift in winds up to 120 mph. The shake profile has deep shadow lines and wood tones, the look of cedar. The shingle profile reads like an architectural asphalt roof.
Over the spots that matter, yes. The textured surface holds snow more like shingles, so the roof needs fewer guards than standing seam. Fewer isn’t none. Over entries, decks, walkways, meters, and gutters, we lay guards out from the pitch and the snow load, not by guesswork.
Most homes take two to four days, depending on size, pitch, tear-off or re-roof, and how much decking needs replacing. Full replacements run roughly May through October, so the calendar fills from the front. The timeline is in the written estimate before we start.
Let’s see what stone-coated steel would take
Text a photo or book an inspection. You get a photo report and a written price within 24 hours, and no pressure after it.