PBR / R-panel
The structural commercial panel: it spans open purlins with no deck underneath, and the 24 ga is HVHZ and Miami-Dade approved.
See PBR →Service Area
Ocala metal roofing supply
Structural panel for Marion County's barns and arenas, standing seam for the houses. Standing seam, 5V, rib and PBR panels, custom trim, field measurement, and crated delivery - quoted fast with IMQ.
Marion County
What we supply in Ocala
Horse country is a structural-panel market: PBR spans open framing with no deck at all, which on an arena roof is the entire difference in the budget.
Rib panel
Wide coverage, exposed fasteners, no clips - the most affordable route to a real metal roof. Approved outside the HVHZ.
See rib panel →Custom trim & flashings
Ridge, hip, valley, eave and rake fabricated to your details and crated alongside the panels.
Trim & accessories →Local knowledge
Metal roofing in Ocala
Marion County is horse country - roughly a thousand thoroughbred and sport-horse farms around Ocala, plus the World Equestrian Center. Barns, run-in sheds, arenas and hay storage are a bigger metal roofing market here than houses are, and they are almost all structural panel work over open framing.
PBR is the profile that fits that. It spans purlins without a deck underneath, which removes both the plywood and the labor to install it, and on a long arena roof that difference is most of the budget. Rib panel covers the smaller outbuildings where the span is shorter and the money is tighter.
Ocala is inland and well away from salt, but it sits in the middle of the peninsula where hurricanes arrive already over land and still carrying serious gusts - Irma tracked directly up this corridor in 2017. Wind uplift is the governing load here rather than corrosion, so fastening pattern and purlin spacing are what we check on a Marion County submittal.
Approvals
Permitting in Marion County
Marion County is outside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone - the HVHZ is Miami-Dade and Broward only - so every profile in our catalog can be permitted in Ocala.
SL100, SL150, NS150, M100 and M150 carry HVHZ and Miami-Dade approval, which is a higher bar than Marion County requires, so those specs clear plan review with room to spare.
NS100, 5V, RIB and PBR are approved for use outside the HVHZ, which covers Marion County and every other Florida county except Miami-Dade and Broward. They are fully permittable here.
Approval numbers are published on each panel's page and the documentation travels with the order, so the submittal is complete when the crew mobilizes. See the Florida approvals library for the current documents.
Getting it there
Delivered to your Ocala jobsite
Ocala is a straightforward day run from Northeast Florida. Panels are fabricated to exact length, crated with the trim and accessories, and delivered together rather than in pieces.
Panels, trim and accessories are fabricated to exact length so there are no end-laps to seal in the field, and they ship crated together rather than as separate deliveries. Add turnkey installation through ERS Installations for a fully managed metal roof in Marion County.
FAQ
Ocala metal roofing questions
What is the best metal roof for an Ocala horse barn?
PBR. It is a structural panel that spans open purlins with no deck underneath, so on a barn or arena you are buying panel, fastener and closure and nothing else. Rib panel is the value option on smaller outbuildings with shorter spans.
Nearby
Other markets we serve in North Central Florida
Working across the region? These are the neighboring markets we supply on the same terms.
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