DECRA Stone-Coated Steel Roofing in Nashville: The Installer's Guide

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The Quick Answer: DECRA in Nashville

Four Profiles, One Construction, $850 to $1,500 Per Square Installed

DECRA is stone-coated steel: 26-gauge aluminum-zinc alloy steel pressed into shake, tile, and shingle shapes, coated both sides with acrylic resin, and finished in ceramic-coated stone granules. Every profile carries UL 2218 Class 4 impact resistance, Class A fire-rated assemblies, a 120 mph wind warranty, and a Lifetime Limited warranty, at an installed weight of 150 to 160 pounds per square, about 1.5 pounds per square foot. It suits Nashville homeowners who want the look of shake, clay tile, or dimensional shingle with steel underneath, especially where a review board would refuse vertical-seam panels. We install it at $850 to $1,500 per square.

Two things decide where a DECRA bid lands inside that range: which profile you pick and how your roof is built. Direct-to-deck profiles like Shake XD and Shingle XD install faster than the batten-set Tile, and a cut-up roof with hips, valleys, and dormers uses more panels and more trim labor than a simple gable. In our field data, stamped and stone-coated metal shingle systems run 40 to 60 years in Tennessee service, and installation quality decides which end of that range a roof reaches.

The DECRA Line

Shake XD is the hand-split wood shake, 12-3/8 by 49-7/8 inch exposure, 23.4 panels per square. Villa Tile is the Old-World barrel tile, 25.2 panels per square at 160 pounds. Tile is the scalloped Mediterranean profile, 20 panels per square on battens. Shingle XD is the thick-cut architectural shingle look, 23.8 panels per square. DECRA also makes Shake, its original batten-set cedar profile, which we quote on request.

What It Costs Installed

Stamped metal shingle and stone-coated systems, DECRA included, run $850 to $1,500 per square installed on our current schedule. A typical 2,000 square foot roof is 20 squares, which budgets at about $17,000 to $30,000 with tear-off, underlayment, flashings, and cleanup included in the written number.

Worked example: a 2,000 square foot Shake XD roof quoted at the middle of the schedule, about $1,150 per square for illustration, comes to roughly $23,000 installed. The same roof in batten-set Tile bids higher because battens and counter-battens at 24 inches on center add material and labor, while a simple Shingle XD gable on a clean deck can press toward the $850 end. Every DECRA bid we write is built from your measured roof, not from a national table.

The rest of this guide unpacks those numbers one layer at a time: where DECRA comes from, what each profile actually is, what the finish chemistry does in Tennessee sun, and what the warranty does and does not promise.

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Since 1957: The Original Stone-Coated Steel

From Decramastic to a Dedicated Texas Plant

DECRA is the brand that invented this category. The technology traces to Decraspray, a WWII-era protective bitumen coating developed in the UK; New Zealand entrepreneur Lou Fisher trademarked Decramastic in 1955 and added crushed stone granules to the coating, and the DECRA name itself was trademarked in 1978. The company has made stone-coated steel roofing continuously since 1957 and describes itself as the number one stone-coated steel manufacturer for residential and commercial roofing. When we set a DECRA panel on a Nashville roof, we are installing the product every other stone-coated line has been compared against for almost seven decades.

Ownership and production are current, not just heritage. IKO Industries acquired DECRA's parent, the Roof Tile Group, from Fletcher Building in November 2018 for $39 million, and in 2025 IKO opened a $60 million, 205,000 square foot dedicated metal plant in Ennis, Texas, south of Dallas, replacing the decommissioned Corona, California facility.

Why Provenance Matters to Your Roof

Provenance is a supply question before it is a marketing line. Your roof will need accessory panels, trim pieces, and warranty service years from now, and a brand that has shipped continuously since 1957 and now runs a dedicated US plant with five shipping docks and capacity around 20 truckloads a day is a safer counterparty for matching material in 2046 than a label that may not exist by then.

The Texas plant matters for Tennessee lead times too. DECRA panels now ship from Ennis, Texas rather than from the old California plant, a much shorter run to Middle Tennessee, which tightens the window between your color decision and panels on site, and tightens it again whenever a repair needs matching material fast.

Backing matters the same way. A Lifetime Limited warranty is only as good as the company standing behind it in year 30, and DECRA's sits with IKO, a global roofing manufacturer that put $60 million into a dedicated metal plant for this product line. That is the kind of counterparty we are comfortable setting our own lifetime workmanship warranty beside.

One more provenance note from the install side: DECRA publishes its guide specifications, components chart, and ICC-ES evaluation reports in public, ESR-1754 for the direct-to-deck assemblies and ESR-2901 for the batten-set Tile. That paper trail is what lets a building department, an HOA board, or an insurance carrier verify exactly what is going on your roof, and we attach it to the HOA submittal packets we prepare rather than asking a board to take our word.

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Shake XD: The Hand-Split Wood Shake Profile

150 Pounds Per Square, Direct to Deck, Hidden Fasteners

Shake XD is a 26-gauge aluminum-zinc alloy steel panel, hot-dip coated to ASTM A792, pressed into the deep shadow lines of hand-split cedar shake. Panels measure 14-1/8 by 52-1/8 inches with a 12-3/8 by 49-7/8 inch exposure, so 23.4 panels cover a square, and an installed square weighs about 150 pounds, roughly 1.5 pounds per square foot. The weather face is ceramic-coated stone granules locked into an acrylic resin coat that is applied to both sides of the steel.

The panel installs direct to the deck, no battens, with hidden fasteners: five corrosion-resistant screws driven along the back panel clip, minimum No. 9 gauge, penetrating the deck at least 1/2 inch. Because every screw sits under the next course, there are no exposed fastener heads or gaskets weathering on the roof field and nothing on a maintenance schedule to re-tighten.

On Tennessee housing stock, Shake XD reads as a cedar roof with the sun raking across it: staggered edges, deep grain, real shadow. It suits craftsman bungalows, cottage and lake houses, and any street where wood shake belongs but wood's fire behavior and upkeep do not. The assembly carries a Class A fire rating and UL 2218 Class 4 impact resistance.

Hail is where this profile earns Nashville roofs. DECRA's written warranty covers hail penetration by stones 2.5 inches in diameter or smaller, on top of the UL 2218 Class 4 rating, so the coverage is stated as a stone size, not an adjective. And because the surface is stone texture rather than a smooth painted skin, the roof reads as shake from the street and keeps reading that way as it weathers.

Shake XD stocks two colors, Antique Chestnut and Pinnacle Grey, with Midnight Eclipse and Woodland Green available made-to-order. Made-to-order colors carry added production time, which we build into the schedule before anything is ordered. We bring physical Shake XD samples to the free assessment and look at them in daylight on your own roofline, because granule blends shift tone between showroom light and open sky.

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Villa Tile: Old-World Barrel Tile in Steel

160 Pounds Per Square Instead of a Structural Retrofit

Villa Tile is DECRA's Old-World Italian barrel profile: 26-gauge aluminum-zinc alloy steel pressed into the high curves of Spanish and Italian clay tile. Panels run 17 by 44-1/4 inches with a 14-1/2 by 39-1/2 inch exposure, 25.2 panels per square, and an installed square weighs about 160 pounds, a fraction of the weight of the concrete or clay tile it imitates. That is the point: Villa Tile puts a tile roofline on a house framed for ordinary roof loads, with no structural engineering and no reinforced rafters.

It installs direct to the deck with hidden fasteners, minimum No. 9 corrosion-resistant screws with at least 1/2 inch of deck penetration, at pitches down to 3:12, under the assembly covered by DECRA's direct-to-deck evaluation report, ICC-ES ESR-1754, over ASTM D226 Type I or Type II felt underlayment. That 3:12 floor matters in Nashville, because plenty of ranch and transitional homes carry lower-slope sections where real clay tile could never go. The stocked palette is Amalfi Sand, Capri Clay, Pompeii Ash, Rustico Clay, and Venetian Gold, with Tuscan Sun, Charcoal, Woodland Green, and Chestnut available made-to-order.

On the street, Villa Tile belongs on Mediterranean, stucco, and Tuscan-influenced builds, photographing with the deep course shadows of hand-laid barrel tile. The program also runs Cool Roof colors, Royal Oak Mist and Grey Spanish Clay among them, for owners chasing reflective performance in Tennessee sun.

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Tile: The Scalloped Mediterranean Profile

20 Panels Per Square, Batten-Set, Its Own ESR Report

DECRA Tile is the scalloped Mediterranean profile: 26-gauge aluminum-zinc alloy steel pressed into a soft S-curve. Panels run 16-1/2 by 52 inches with a 14-1/2 by 50 inch exposure, so a square needs just 20 panels, the fewest of any profile we install from this line, at about 150 pounds per square installed.

Tile is the batten profile of the four. DECRA's guide specification sets it on battens with counter-battens at 24 inches on center, fastened with hidden corrosion-resistant screws, and the batten assembly carries its own ICC-ES evaluation report, ESR-2901, separate from the direct-to-deck report the other profiles run under. Minimum pitch is 3:12.

The batten grid changes the roof in ways you can price and feel. It adds a lumber and labor line the direct-to-deck profiles skip, which is part of why a Tile roof tends to bid in the upper half of the $850 to $1,500 per square schedule, and it sets the panels on a raised, engineered grid rather than tight to the sheathing, the same logic traditional tile roofs have used for centuries.

The scalloped S-curve reads softer than Villa Tile's tall barrels, closer to the clay roofs of coastal Spain than to a Tuscan farmhouse, and it sits comfortably on brick and stucco houses that want tile texture without maximum profile height. From the curb the eye reads course rhythm and shadow; in the paperwork it reads UL 2218 Class 4 impact resistance and a Class A fire-rated assembly.

Tile stocks five colors, Charcoal, Chestnut, Garnet, Terracotta, and Weathered Timber, with Tuscan Sun, Granite Gray, Shadowood, and Woodland Green available made-to-order and Grey Spanish Clay in the Cool Roof program. Terracotta and Garnet carry the classic fired-clay look; Charcoal and Weathered Timber pull the same profile toward slate tones that sit naturally on Tennessee brick.

A planning note that comes straight from the fastening design: because Tile hangs on its batten grid with concealed screws, a damaged panel can be unfastened and swapped rather than a whole section rebuilt, with matching material shipped from Ennis, Texas. Spread that over the 40 to 60 year service life our field data shows for stamped metal systems and the batten grid stops being a quirk and starts being a maintenance feature.

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Shingle XD: The Architectural Shingle Look

The HOA Shape, Executed in Stone-Coated Steel

Shingle XD is an aluminum-zinc alloy steel panel pressed into the profile of a thick-cut architectural asphalt shingle. Panels run 14-1/8 by 52-3/8 inches with a 12-1/4 by 49-1/2 inch exposure, 23.8 panels to the square, at about 150 pounds per square installed, with the color carried in ceramic-coated stone granules, not a printed film.

It installs direct to deck with hidden fasteners, five screws along the back panel clip, the same concealed pattern Shake XD uses. From the curb it reads as a premium dimensional shingle roof, which is exactly what makes it the easiest DECRA profile to carry through an architectural review in subdivisions built around asphalt streetscapes.

Why Granules Beat a Printed Shingle Pattern

An asphalt architectural shingle gets its depth from mineral granules, and Shingle XD uses the same visual ingredient: real ceramic-coated stone bonded to the panel, so the texture is physical rather than printed. That is why it holds up visually next to asphalt neighbors instead of reading as an imitation of one. The difference is underneath, steel instead of organic mat, with UL 2218 Class 4 impact resistance and hail-penetration coverage for stones up to 2.5 inches written into the warranty.

The stocked palette covers the tones asphalt subdivisions actually use: Classic Cobblestone, Midnight Eclipse, Natural Slate, and Old Hickory, with Woodland Green available made-to-order. Natural Slate and Classic Cobblestone sit closest to the weathered-wood and slate-gray shingles common across Middle Tennessee subdivisions.

Here is the practical math we walk through at kitchen tables: a 2,000 square foot Shingle XD roof needs about 476 panels, 23.8 per square across 20 squares, and on typical geometry it bids inside the $850 to $1,500 per square schedule, $17,000 to $30,000 for the full range. Against the asphalt roof it resembles, you are buying Class 4 impact resistance, a 120 mph wind warranty, and a 40 to 60 year service expectation from our field data instead of another tear-off in two decades.

One honest note: minimum pitch for Shingle XD depends on the assembly, so we confirm the pitch call against DECRA's current guide specification on your actual roof at the free assessment rather than print a single number here. If a slope is borderline, we say so on site, with the spec document open.

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Materials and Finish Science: Stone on Steel

Aluminum-Zinc Alloy, Acrylic Resin, Ceramic Granules

Every DECRA panel starts as steel hot-dip coated with an aluminum-zinc alloy to ASTM A792, in AZ50 and AZ150 coating weights depending on the assembly. Aluminum-zinc is the metallurgy that made modern steel roofing durable: the aluminum side of the alloy contributes barrier protection, the zinc side contributes sacrificial protection at cut edges and scratches. Over that, DECRA applies an acrylic resin coat to both sides of the panel and embeds ceramic-coated stone granules into the weather face.

The result is a roof with no continuous paint film on the weather face to chalk or peel. The color is carried in the ceramic coating fired onto individual stone granules, the same principle that colors an asphalt shingle, executed over steel instead of an organic mat.

What Granules Do in Tennessee Sun

Tennessee roofs take hard UV, and finish chemistry decides what year 20 looks like. A granule face weathers granularly: any tone shift is spread across thousands of individual stones rather than showing as streaks on a smooth panel, and small surface wear disappears into texture instead of catching light. DECRA backs the system with its Lifetime Limited warranty rather than a published fade-rate table, so the honest comparison against painted systems is texture versus measured gloss, and we put both kinds of sample in your hands at the assessment.

Granules also change how the roof reads in light. Stone scatters daylight instead of returning it as sheen, so the roof shows matte texture at every sun angle, which is one reason stone-coated profiles clear design review on streets where a glossy panel would be flagged.

The steel core is 26 gauge, 0.0179 inch, on Villa Tile, Tile, and Shake XD per DECRA's guide specifications, pressed into profile before coating. The steel supplies the Class 4 impact behavior and the wind warranty numbers; the granule face supplies the architecture. Neither layer is doing the other's job, which is the quiet advantage of a two-layer system.

For the paperwork file: DECRA assemblies carry Class A fire ratings per ASTM E108 testing, assembly-dependent, UL 2218 Class 4 impact classification, ICC-ES evaluation reports ESR-1754 and ESR-2901, Florida Building Code listing FL9759-R9, and TAS-100 wind-driven rain testing behind the brand's high-velocity hurricane zone approvals. Nashville is not a hurricane zone, and that is the point: the product is qualified far beyond what Middle Tennessee will ever ask of it.

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The DECRA Warranty, In Plain English

Lifetime Limited, 120 mph Wind, 2.5 Inch Hail, One Transfer

DECRA's Lifetime Limited warranty runs for the lifetime of the original owner on a single-family detached home, and 50 years on other structures. Wind coverage runs to 120 mph. Hail coverage is written as penetration by stones 2.5 inches in diameter or smaller, a stone size in writing rather than a vague storm clause.

The fine print, translated: one transfer is allowed, and only within the first 20 years, with notice to DECRA within 30 days of the ownership change, which matters if you expect to sell the house. Materials coverage is strongest early: in years 21 through 40 it prorates at 1/600 per month elapsed, and from year 41 on it covers 20 percent of reasonable materials replacement cost. That is a normal shape for a lifetime metal warranty, and we would rather show you the curve than read you the headline.

How It Stacks With Our Workmanship Warranty

DECRA's warranty covers the panel. It does not cover the installation, and installation details are where roofs actually fail. Our lifetime workmanship warranty covers the install itself, the flashing, fastening, and detail work, separate from and stacked on top of DECRA's product coverage.

In practice the stack works like this: a granule or panel issue in year 12 is a DECRA materials claim, and we handle the documentation; a flashing leak at a chimney in year 12 is ours to fix under the workmanship warranty, no proration and no transfer clock. Ask any roofer selling a lifetime product one question: who covers the workmanship, for how long, in writing? Our answer is in writing, from a company with 10,000+ metal roof repairs and 1,000+ replacements behind it since 2003.

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Which Tennessee Houses Fit DECRA

Streetscape, Structure, Pitch, and the HOA Packet

Start with the streetscape. DECRA's profiles are traditional shapes, shake, tile, and shingle, which makes the brand a natural fit where the review standard is looks like it belongs. Shake XD suits craftsman and cottage stock, Villa Tile and Tile belong on Mediterranean and stucco builds, and Shingle XD disappears into any subdivision built around dimensional asphalt. Where a vertical-seam roof would be refused at review, a granule-faced DECRA profile usually is not, because from the sidewalk it reads as the roof the covenants had in mind.

Structure is rarely a barrier. At 150 to 160 pounds per square, about 1.5 pounds per square foot, DECRA is a fraction of the weight of the clay and concrete tile it imitates, so the tile look arrives without a structural retrofit and without an engineering letter holding up your schedule.

Pitch is the second check. Villa Tile and Tile are specified down to 3:12, which covers most Nashville rooflines including many transitional low-slope sections, and we verify the pitch call for Shake XD and Shingle XD against DECRA's current guide specification on your actual roof. Below the specified floors, this is the wrong product, and we will say so at the assessment instead of after the tear-off.

For HOA neighborhoods, we prepare the submittal packet ourselves: profile drawings, the physical color sample, DECRA's spec sheet, and the Class A fire and Class 4 impact documentation with the evaluation report numbers a board can check. Boards approve specifics faster than adjectives, and a packet with ESR-1754 printed in it is specific.

Who should probably not buy DECRA: owners set on a sleek modern roofline, because every profile in this line is deliberately traditional, and owners of roofs below the specified pitch floors. For a contemporary build chasing long clean sightlines, standing seam is the honest recommendation, and we install that too. The right product is the one that fits the house, the covenants, and the slope, in that order.

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DECRA vs the Rest of Our Lineup

Where the Original Stone-Coated Line Wins, and Where It Does Not

Against standing seam: standing seam is a vertical-panel system with concealed clips, the modern-architecture answer, and on long simple planes it is hard to beat. DECRA is the traditional-architecture answer, four granule-faced profiles that read as shake, tile, or shingle. Both are Class 4 rated steel systems with engineered wind coverage, so the decision is almost always aesthetic and regulatory: what the house wants, and what the review board will approve.

Against the other stamped-steel lines we install: DECRA is the stone-coated option, deeper relief, a matte mineral face, and more installed weight, 150 to 160 pounds per square against roughly 95 to 110 for the smooth painted stamped systems we carry.

We steer you toward DECRA when you want the deepest shake or barrel-tile relief, when hail coverage written as a 2.5 inch stone size matters to you, when a granule face that weathers like mineral suits the street better than gloss, and when almost seven decades of continuous production is the kind of track record you want over your framing.

We steer you elsewhere when you want a designer color under a measured fade warranty, because the painted lines publish chalk and fade numbers a granule face does not; when the lightest possible sheet matters; or when the architecture calls for seams, not shingles. We bring more than one line's samples to the same appointment, because granule texture next to smooth paint on your own driveway settles it faster than any page of ours can.

Price will not settle it for you: our stamped and stone-coated systems all quote inside the same $850 to $1,500 per square installed schedule, with the spread driven by profile and roof geometry rather than by logo. That is deliberate. It keeps the brand conversation at our table about fit and finish, not about which sticker rescues a budget.

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DECRA Pricing in Nashville, With the Math Shown

$850 to $1,500 Per Square, and What Moves the Number

DECRA installs at $850 to $1,500 per square on our current schedule, with tear-off, underlayment, flashings, and cleanup included. A square is 100 square feet of roof surface, so a typical 2,000 square foot roof is 20 squares and budgets at $17,000 to $30,000 installed.

Inside that range, four DECRA-specific drivers move the number. Profile: batten-set Tile adds the battens and counter-battens at 24 inches on center that direct-to-deck profiles skip. Color: made-to-order colors add production lead time that can shape the schedule. Geometry: at 20 to 25.2 panels per square, hips, valleys, and dormers multiply cutting and trim labor quickly. Deck: direct-to-deck systems need sound sheathing, so decking repairs surface after tear-off, priced as they are found, not hidden in the quote.

Worked example, shown honestly: a 2,000 square foot roof in Shake XD on moderate geometry, taken at $1,150 per square for illustration, comes to about $23,000. The same house in batten-set Tile might land near $1,300, about $26,000, while a simple Shingle XD gable can press toward $850, about $17,000. All three figures include tear-off, underlayment, flashings, and cleanup; none is a teaser that grows at contract time. Financing options are available on approved credit, and we run those numbers beside the cash price at the estimate.

Why the Range Is Honest

We publish $850 to $1,500 because that is the real span of DECRA-class work, not because a single number would not look better in an ad. The low end is real: simple direct-to-deck roofs on clean decks reach it. The high end is real too: batten assemblies, cut-up geometry, and made-to-order colors reach that. What you will not find is a figure that quietly excludes tear-off or underlayment to look cheap; every number on this page is the installed, job-complete price.

Comparing quotes? Ask three questions of any DECRA bid: does it name the profile and color, since batten-set Tile and made-to-order colors price differently than stocked Shake XD; does the printed number include tear-off, underlayment, flashings, and cleanup; and does it state both warranties, the manufacturer's Lifetime Limited terms and the installer's workmanship coverage, in writing. A bid that goes quiet on any of the three is not a lower price. It is a smaller scope.

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How We Install DECRA

Metal-Only Crews, Hidden Fasteners, 3 to 7 Days

We are a metal-only company and have been since 2003, so the crew on your roof installs metal systems every working day, not asphalt on Monday and metal when it comes up. On DECRA that matters most at the details: a hidden-fastener system rewards crews that have driven thousands of concealed screws, because the fastener you cannot see later is the fastener that had to be right the first time.

The method follows DECRA's guide specifications. Full tear-off to the deck as standard, decking inspected and repaired as needed, ASTM D226 Type I or Type II felt underlayment, then panels: direct to deck for Shake XD, Villa Tile, and Shingle XD, batten and counter-batten grid at 24 inches on center for Tile, all fastened with concealed corrosion-resistant screws, minimum No. 9, driven to at least 1/2 inch of deck penetration.

Most DECRA installs run 3 to 7 business days on site. Before any of it comes the free assessment: we measure the roof, check pitch against the profile you want, and bring physical DECRA samples to view in daylight on your own driveway, because granule blends read differently under open sky than under showroom light. If an HOA has to sign off, we prepare the submittal packet before you order anything.

Every installation carries our lifetime workmanship warranty alongside DECRA's Lifetime Limited product warranty, and the company behind that promise has receipts: TN License #75515, BBB A+ accreditation, 4.9 stars across 150+ Google reviews, 10,000+ metal roof repairs, and 1,000+ metal roof replacements across Middle Tennessee. Call (615) 649-5002 for the free assessment, or use the estimate button and we will call you.

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DECRA Metal Roofing: Frequently Asked Questions

Eleven Straight Answers From the Install Side

How much does DECRA roofing cost installed in Nashville?

Stamped metal shingle and stone-coated systems, DECRA included, install at $850 to $1,500 per square on our current schedule, with tear-off, underlayment, flashings, and cleanup included. A typical 2,000 square foot roof runs about $17,000 to $30,000. Batten-set Tile and made-to-order colors bid toward the upper half; simple direct-to-deck roofs press toward the low end.

How long does a DECRA roof last?

Stamped and stone-coated metal shingle systems run 40 to 60 years in our Middle Tennessee field data. DECRA has manufactured stone-coated steel since 1957, and its warranty runs for the lifetime of the original owner on a single-family detached home, with defined materials coverage out past year 40.

Is DECRA good for hail?

Yes, and the number is in writing: UL 2218 Class 4 impact resistance, the highest class the test awards, plus warranty coverage for hail penetration by stones 2.5 inches in diameter or smaller. The granule face is textured stone, so minor strikes tend to disappear into the surface instead of reading as dents on a smooth panel.

What profiles does DECRA make?

Five residential profiles, all stone-coated steel: Shake XD (hand-split shake), Villa Tile (Old-World barrel tile), Tile (scalloped Mediterranean), Shingle XD (thick-cut architectural shingle), and Shake, the original batten-set cedar profile, which we quote on request.

What colors does DECRA come in?

By profile: Shake XD in Antique Chestnut and Pinnacle Grey; Villa Tile in Amalfi Sand, Capri Clay, Pompeii Ash, Rustico Clay, and Venetian Gold; Tile in Charcoal, Chestnut, Garnet, Terracotta, and Weathered Timber; Shingle XD in Classic Cobblestone, Midnight Eclipse, Natural Slate, and Old Hickory, plus made-to-order and Cool Roof options like Royal Oak Mist and Grey Spanish Clay.

How heavy is a DECRA roof compared to shingles?

About 150 to 160 pounds per square installed, roughly 1.5 pounds per square foot, a load ordinary roof framing is built to carry. The comparison that matters is against the clay and concrete tile DECRA imitates: those run many times heavier and can demand structural review, while DECRA's tile profiles deliver the same roofline without it.

What is the DECRA warranty and does it transfer?

A Lifetime Limited warranty for the original owner of a single-family detached home, 50 years on other structures, with 120 mph wind coverage and hail-penetration coverage for stones up to 2.5 inches. One transfer is allowed, only within the first 20 years, with notice to DECRA within 30 days of the ownership change; materials coverage prorates after year 20. Our lifetime workmanship warranty covers the installation separately.

Will an HOA approve a DECRA roof?

Usually, because every DECRA profile imitates a roof HOAs already allow: shake, tile, or architectural shingle. Shingle XD in particular reads as dimensional asphalt from the street. We prepare the HOA submittal packet ourselves, profile drawings, the physical color sample, the spec sheet, and the Class A fire and Class 4 impact documentation, before any material is ordered.

Where is DECRA made?

In the United States. Since 2025, DECRA production runs at IKO's $60 million, 205,000 square foot metal plant in Ennis, Texas, south of Dallas, which replaced the decommissioned Corona, California facility. DECRA has been part of IKO Industries since 2018, and the stone-coated steel line itself dates to 1957.

Who installs DECRA in Nashville?

We do. The Metal Roofers is a metal-only company, TN License #75515, BBB A+ accredited, 4.9 stars across 150+ Google reviews, with 10,000+ metal roof repairs and 1,000+ metal roof replacements across Middle Tennessee since 2003. DECRA trains and supports installers through its Contractor Network, and every roof we set carries our lifetime workmanship warranty on top of DECRA's product warranty. Call (615) 649-5002.

Is DECRA better than standing seam?

Different jobs. Standing seam is the vertical-panel answer for contemporary architecture and long simple planes. DECRA is the traditional answer, shake, tile, and shingle profiles that clear review where vertical seams would not. Both are Class 4 steel systems we back with lifetime workmanship coverage; the house, covenants, and pitch decide.