☆ Why discuss the problem of cutting metal roofing panels?

Nowadays,metal roofing panels are widely used in many buildings,from large steel structure factories, to roof of parking sheds, many owners will choose color coated steel sheets with good quality and low price. At construction site,we can not avoid that we have requirement to cut the profiled steel roof to facilitate installation.Therefore,it is very important to choose what tools and how to cut roofing steel sheets properly to make them beautiful.

☆ What tools can be used to cut metal roofing?

You can use electric shears or nibblers,which are similar to the picture on the left.In our opinion,this is the best tools you can buy to cut steel roof tile sheets. Shears work very well,while nibblers are specially designed more for corrugated or curved panels. And this tool is the best one for those professional people.

Also this is an electric tool, which is relatively easy to operate, you don't need to waste too much effort to cut corrugated metal panels beautifully.

Regular long snips are suitable for thin steel roofing sheets, you should be able to cut through like paper.But when the thickness of steel roof sheet is too thick, the tool would be useless, because too thick requires more strength.And if you can not properly operated the tool, it may lead to steel corrugated roofing sheets shearing,or even scrap of the whole panel.

Aviation snips are for cutting little notches,you might need to make little notches,too,during the metal roofing installation.There are so many brands,if you are confused,we can have advice for you. With this tool,it can helpful for angled roofing.

☆ Cutting manner of color steel roofing

1) Please require workers to wear gloves, when handling corrugated steel roof sheets;
2) Please make sure workers’ hands or gloves are clean, when it need to mark on zinc/alu-zinc steel sheets;
3) One color pencil is needed,it's for marking on steel sheets.Because lead or black pencils are containing graphite,which will lead roofing sheets to be rusty quickly;
4) Please avoid using abrasive discs,since they may cause glitch on edges and damage on coating;
5) Please clean off any swarf and metal filings progressively,during the installation.