Several months ago we started a built in gutter reline job. We ran into a snag – a brick wall was falling over and the roof was splaying. We had to stop ’til the masons and carpenters got done rebuilding the wall.
The owners decided they wanted some of the metal cornice replaced since somebody decided the best way to remove loose paint from it was to hit it with a ball peen hammer.
Here’s the process I use to make metal cornice – this is terne metal – I’ve also done some with copper and lead coated copper. Since this is a repair, we stayed with the original material:
I didn’t think to take pics until the last piece. Here’s the blank in the brake with my smallest radius nose attached.
I push the blank back over the radius nose by hand – a little at a time until it’s curved as much as I can curve it.
I flip it around and do the same thing from the other side.
Here’s the piece with the finished radius.
I finish off the straight bends.
Here’s a section of the whole thing clamped together in profile.
Here’s a view as you would see it looking up from the ground. We’ll get some more photo’s as Dale And Duane install this tomorrow.
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And here's those pics bigger for the broadband crowd:
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Grant,
Thats a sweet looking piece of work ! Looking forward to seeing it in place.
Walter
Here's the project:
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=80406.54Looks like we may get rained out today.http://grantlogan.net/
Not a rain out, but Dales "Feelbad" got to feeling bad, he went back to his casa. I couldn't really make progress with just two hands, and it takes a fair bit of fiddling to get that stuff up over the crude existing, with out kinking or denting.
I hope he gets to feeling better, we need to get the heck away from that place.
Edit: we did get the spring fixed in the one joystick of the boom lift, it was getting where it was real jumpy, and would also slowly start to let you down..or suddenly drop you 2'.
Parolee # 40835
Edited 4/24/2007 5:25 pm ET by Sphere
>>>>>>>>>>>Edit: we did get the spring fixed in the one joystick of the boom lift, it was getting where it was real jumpy, and would also slowly start to let you down..or suddenly drop you 2'.Good. I meant to take it apart and see if I could fix it when it was home, but the weather sucked the whole time it sat here. Look what I just bought on Ebay:http://grantlogan.net/
Grant,
Nice looking work. The box gutters I have built over the years (the rafter tail birds mouth) got real slim towards the corners.
Most viewers of BT have no clue of the quality of work that you'll do.
Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood
Wow! Thems cool. I love the spade style handles.
It sure feels like we got a "frog strangler" comin in. I hope it moves fast.Parolee # 40835
>>>>>>I love the spade style handles.Problem is, you've got to stand up perpendicular to the roof to use them. No prob on a low pitch, but try it on a 24/12. They'll give you Popeye forearms as well. I started out using those things (just like I started out soldering with charcoal). They do the seam bending as well as the closing. I got 'em for $250. I paid $1100 new for a set 20 years ago. No telling what they cost new now.http://grantlogan.net/
Didn't know if you are still accumulating piles of scaffolding, but this was a better deal back when the bid was around $300.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=180110310111&rd=1&rd=1
I never really know what to look for that determines good or bad scaffolding, but Bil-Jax is one that I've got in my head as 'good' for some reason. And the 5x5 would have worked with the stuff being stored in BIL's garage. Several days left to that auction, who knows what it will get up to.
jt8
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That'll be a fair deal up to about $1000 if you don't have to go too far to get it.http://grantlogan.net/
That'll be a fair deal up to about $1000 if you don't have to go too far to get it.
Probably be 3-4 hr drive away. But I don't have anything to hold that much material, so a rental truck would also be involved. I think I shelled out just over $100 for the last truck, which was a 1-day local rental, so you'd probably be looking at $200 or better, plus a lost day.
So as the price goes up, my motivation goes down.
You guys got any new pics for us? (of the thread topic)
jt8
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edited 4/25/2007 5:15 pm by JohnT8
Took a couple today, but I've got several proposals to get out tonight, so I may not get time to post them.http://grantlogan.net/
Here ya go Mr. Logan.
We hadda do some seious out smarting of the job. It was a tough call, but had to demo the existing to save the day.
It all came out really sweet. Cant see a joint anywhere.
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Sweet. I was just posting that pic from the other day when you slipped in. They ought to be happy with that. I'll send 'em a bill.http://grantlogan.net/
She was blown away.
Um, we bugged out and forgot the counter flashing on the copper...DOH! And we need still to use some of the tear off as patches elsewhere.
Install two of the hip ends, and other than shingles, we be outta there. 3/4 day Mon if we don't have to shingle.Parolee # 40835
Hopefully Dave will be back tomorrow. He tried to work today, but he's had some sort of allergic reaction and his head looked like a basketball this morning. He went back to the doc this afternoon. I'll get him to finish up the shingles - he's still got a dormer to do. Miles wants to use the boom Monday to do some extra work she just approved yesterday, so I might have you guys do something else Monday and come back when he's done.http://grantlogan.net/
Oh yeah, any of that cornice that you took off and don't re-use, please leave it in the basement or somewhere for future repairs.http://grantlogan.net/
Gotcha, it's out back. Some is salvageable, and we have one pc of everything new left over. I mean all 5 parts. Just a little bloody, man, that stuff is sharp!
We cut the miter free hand with a cutoff wheel in the cordless grinder...that was a trick.Parolee # 40835
Grant
I am extremly impressed with that piece of trim you bent. I never knew you could bend something like that on a brake, I have problems bending straight stuff.
I 'm sure that was a lot more challenging and rewarding work, than the plastic lattice I was putting up today. Fine homebuilding it wasn't.Keep up the good work.
Greg in Sunny and warm connecticut
Greg,
You've addressed that post to the wrong man.
Grant's handle is seeyou.
Sorry
Greg in Connecticut
Greg,
I just didn't want credit for someone elses stellar workmanship.
No need to be sorry- it was just a slip of the mouse I'm sure.
Walter (hoping to be that good a metal man somwday)
Here's a completed section:
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Where's the Cu?!
Oh, and by the by, someone took a liking to that scaffolding auction. $1584. They sure wanted it a heck of a lot more than I did.
jt8
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
>>>>>>>Where's the Cu?!I used terne since we were patching. If it was a total replacement, I'd have used copper.http://grantlogan.net/