These tiles were good for another 20–30 years, but the copper valleys had developed holes. We removed all the tiles and installed new copper valleys, then recut the valley tiles, where necessary, and reinstalled them. Some small pieces had to be mounted with copper wire to keep from nailing through the copper valley—a definite no-no !

Not all of our roofing work has been on ancient, dirty, old roofs. Once in a while, we get the opportunity to work on something new! A pretty, third-story, hexagonal turret is proud to wear brand new copper.

This job is not exactly a showcase job, but just look at this example of our forefather's workmanship in this ancient snow protection system, now updated with Sieger snow guards. We made sure to install a new Pennsylvania slate at each new guard, for strength.

This poor little bay roof was struck by a tree and a good thing it was. It was poorly constructed from the beginning. No wonder the tree damaged it so easily! The owners were very pleased when they saw how well-constructed our new copper bay roof was!

A tree had fallen on this garage, crushing the deck and these rare, clear, glazed, Spanish "S" tiles. Unglazed tiles are very common, but glazed tiles were hard to find at the time, so we bought the unglazed tiles and clear glazed them ourselves in our own kiln!

(We've since found glazed tiles at reclaimedroofs.com and Durable Slate.)

Believe it or not, this thin cedar-shake roof was only 15 years old! Cedar should last at least 30 years and not curl up like this one did. So we removed it all and relaid it with ¾" thick taper-sawn shakes.

An ancient roof on a 1700's church's guest house, circa 1700. After laying and soldering the massive pole gutter, we tied in our standing seam panels to its upper edge.

There wasn't much left of this poor, old, pole gutter on this 1700's Miller's house. Talk about reconstructive surgery, it definitely took place here!

This old church roof in center city Philadelphia was in sad shape. We removed the ugly, copper hips, had Vande Hey Raleigh Concrete Tile Co. custom-make concrete tile hip caps to match the color of the weathered, dirty, Spanish tiles and relaid them. We then tore out the 12 dormers and collection valleys in-between, installed new copper soldered pans and restored the copper valleys and tile.

Here's what the dormers looked like on that church roof in Philadelphia! Notice the massive, fired clay ridge caps. Those suckers had some weight to them!

We removed the old tin on this church guest house and upgraded it with 16 oz. copper. Our good friends at Valley Forge Construction restored the building.

Another one of our famous "re-laying" jobs. All the French tiles were removed and the decks repaired. This time, we laid a heavy underlayment down and then installed pressure-treated 1 x 2 wooden purlins in horizontal courses for the tiles to hang from. Note: the porcelin pussy cats were reinstalled !

All tiles were removed and decks repaired. We then laid new underlayment and relaid all the massive, original, four-sided, interlocking tiles, dated 1888!

This tired, old, slate roof and tin dormer is actually just down the street from our shop. We gave it a total transformation—back to its former splender.

What a mess this was. We actually were going to repaint it at first, but after power washing it we noticed a 3" deep puddle had collected in the center of the roof! Obviously, there was an underlying problem. With the help of our good friends at Tague Lumber, we were able to totally reframe and redeck the roof, after which we were able to apply this beautiful flat copper roof and rebuild this second story balcony piece by piece.

For extra measure, we installed our own custom cedar railing system. The cool thing about the posts of the railing system is that there is no penetration through the deck! In order to ensure there would be no leakage, we soldered sturdy brass mounting plates onto the flat copper roof at the seams to receive the post bottoms. For additional rigidity, we braced them with copper pipe.

One of 33 bay roofs we prefabricated and installed on this sprawling collection of triplexes adjacent to the Indian Valley golf course.