"How To Tips" to Install Roofing Sheet Metal
Our goal is to help you to furnish reliable, profitable roofing sheet metal installations for your client. We hope that you find these examples useful and instructive. We offer prefabricated roofing sheet metal products, including copper, custom formed for your project. We may be able to suggest a prefabrication strategy for your project which will save you time and money. Feel free to call.
Standing Seam Hip Roof, Vent Pipe
Made out of preformed 16 oz. copper pans, the standing seams shown here are double locked, preventing any movement within the seam. This makes a very stable and long lasting roof. The hips are formed in place, an operation requiring some copper working skills. Click on the images below to see how. We also show how do a waterproof installation around a plumbing vent pipe.
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Sheet Metal Lined Pole Gutter, In Slate
A pole gutter is a sheet metal lined gutter built into the roof just above the eaves. In the example shown here, the gutter deflects runoff from a roof face onto a lower roof face where it can be collected in a conventional box gutter. Here, the gutter is installed as we lay up Pennsylvania black roofing slate.
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Arched Barrel Sheet Metal Roof
These two flatseamed barrel roofs over arched structures differ in that one is flashed into a masonry wall and the other into a sloping, intersecting shingle roof.
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Standing Seam Shed Dormer Roof
This copper shed dormer roof is backflashed into slate and makes a transition of roof pitch as it intersects with the main roof. Here we demonstrate how a standing seam roof can be soldered to flashing for a clean, waterproof transition.
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Bibbing Replacement Slate
When face nails are used to secure slate, they can back out due to frost and thermal movement leading to repeat loss of the slate. To insure that a replacement slate remains securely in place throughout the life of the roof, we employ a 16 oz. copper bib to hold the nail in place. Here is how.
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Flat Seamed and Soldered Deck
This flat seamed and soldered roof answers two sets of criteria. It is both a zero pitch roof, with all the waterproofing problems that entails, and a durable flooring surface. Our design details allow it to perform on both counts.
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Built in Copper Gutter
Showing the construction of a copper rain gutter built into the eaves and directly attached to a standing seamed main roof. Because the pitch of this gutter is very low, strong flows can result in water that is virtually standing. This gutter depends on sound, strong solder joints to keep it waterproof.
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Flatseamed and Soldered Bay Roof
This flat seamed copper bay roof features its own built in gutter and outlet. A new deck was installed which furnishes the stops for this small but effective rain carrying system.
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Standing Seam Hip, Formed in Place
Here we show the formation of a hip on a standing seamed roof, in place. The material is 16 oz. cold rolled copper, but this operation can be done in any sheet metal material. The seams are double locked, meaning that they are folded over twice, for greater stability. This one story guest house has gutters built into the eaves, so the standing seam roof attaches directly onto the gutter, itself flatseamed with soldered joints.
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Bay Roof Standing Seam Roof Assembly
These complete bay window copper roof assemblies allow for fast and easy installation of these elegant roofs by mechanics with general construction skills only. This assembly was designed to produce a reliable, waterproof seal into an existing masonry brick wall. The sweep or flared pitch of the roof adds a period touch to the work. These copper roof assemblies can be made to your specs and shipped to your shop or job site. Contact us for details.
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