We are building new or replacing old roofs with metal roofing. This includes our house remodeling. Reason? Well, lots, but one thing is that metal roofing is recyclable. Shake roofs are expensive, need to be treated to be fireproof and our local code says you have to have plywood underlayment on your roof before putting up shakes (seismic stuff)...so you get to do your roof twice! And then because it doesn't breath, you get to replace it twice as fast as if you had used skip sheathing...go figure. 3 Tab roofing is not environmentally friendly, and here you can't take it to the dump for less than a king's ransom when you scrape it off eventually. So "bright" minds take it and dump it along the back country roads! It's a mess. Tiled roof is even more expensive around here and architecturally is out of place in the Pacific NW.(posted 9631 days ago)Metal roofing comes in interesting ribbed textures, lots of colors, and isn't noisy when you insulate.