I had a busy day yesterday. Made up the gutter pans for the “copper box gutter reline” (http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=108571.1),
this monster chase cover:
It’s about 4’x7′. The center section removes for installation and future cleaning. I had to buy a sheet of 4′ copper, which I normally don’t use unless necessary and it arrived kind of dinged up, but only birds and airplane passengers will notice.
Here’s the 4th side of the base being bent in the box break:
Here’s the standing seam cap in progress:
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Then I had to make up three 22' long pediment roofs. I got two finished and I'm finishing the 3rd this morning. I ran out of copper.
Here's the standing seam blanks getting formed to fit the roof:
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Continuing:
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And here's half of one of the roofs, ready to install:
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Then I made two copper power vent covers for an out of town company installing a fake slate (Lamarite) roof. If they were for my job, I'd make the whole housing from copper, but these guys just wanted the tops done.
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And then I made five chimney caps to be installed today. Got done about 1:30am.
Bending the small sides on the box brake:
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A finished corner - it's all folded tight - no rivets, no solder:
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All the tops completed and it's still ight out:
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Finished assembling the first one just as it got dark:
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1:30am - done - time for supper:
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Man, you were cookin!
I'm tired just looking.
Great stuff, as usual.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations
You gonna play that thing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ln-SpJsy0
Lookin' good!!!!!!!
Grant,You do some great looking work!Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood
Good stuff, Grant.
You must have good locks. The meth heads around here would love to find a copper trove like that.
jt8
Edited 8/19/2008 12:23 pm by JohnT8
You must have good locks.
I has a schnoodle.
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Quit posting stuff like that!
Could have bought a big 2 ton roll of 4 ft by 20 mil Cu from Alaska Copper and Brass 12 years ago to re-roof my house (245 sqs) for $4K, but passed on it as too lazy to build a seamer and too cheap to buy one for one time use.
Still kick myself; however, what is up there now will last till after I'm dead, and property may be worth more than the house then anyway?
Should have bought it just as an investment?
That was quite a day !!!
Hope today went a little easier.
How many ounces per SF is 20 mil. copper?
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
20 mil works out to about 16 oz. Never heard of it being sold like that. A 2000 lb roll would net 1750 sq ft of roof at best. That price doesn't sound that good for the time period.View Image
Thanks everybody - this was all pretty simple stuff. I just amazed myself at how much metal I had gone thru at the end of the day.View Image
Keep that camera handy -- we like picture threads !!
Grant,Nice work! I'd love to have a break like that. Fortunately, a local roofer helps me make custom flashings and things on his equiptment.Helped him try to bend 1/4" FRP for a sneeze guard, the other day. Didn't work. Too thick, but was fun to try.Brudoggie
Is your home really 245 sq's of roof ??
It is if you include the sheds. And the roof on the homemade well drilling rig. And the bomb-proof mailbox.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
I've never seen a copper standing seam roof on a shed or mailbox !!!
You do some amazing stuff! Thanks for the photos!
Hey Grant, looks good is your shop at your house? I mean workin so late and all the wife might think your else where!
Thanks for the great pictures!
It really looks like a lot of fun (and work).
It would be awesome to spend a coupla days as an apprentice for you, mostly watchin'.
Christopher Robin got up in the morning, the sneezles had vanished away. And the look in his eye seemed to say to the sky, "Now how to amuse them today?".