[fast_e_man]

Baz, What look do you prefer metal or shingle? You mentioned liking the metal roof appearance. If you are fine with the appearance of shingles or tile, it's worth looking at Stone Coated Steel. We replaced cedar shake with Stone Coated Steel about 12 years ago. Roof has a 50 year transferable warranty. Basically steel panels stamped to look like architectural shake & coated with stone about 2mm in diameter. They also carry products that look like tile. The bottom of the panels have a low emissivity coating to thermally decouple the metal shingles from the base felt. Typically installed over wood battens to provide some dead air space. Some R factor benefit. Dade county rated to 125 MPG wind resistance, and hail resistant. Class A fire rated. We get a 25% discount on hazard insurance because of the roof's resistance to wind, hail & fire. Not cheap, but a really good product. In my neighborhood roofs are about 50/50 concrete tile/stone coated steel. Ours looks like new after 12 years.