Well, I have a good mentor…patient, and relaxed, and real good at teaching the feeble minded.
Greencu let me loose on my first solo copper roof..a very easy one, but good OJT…it is FLAT as a pancake, not too high up, and not more than about 3 sq…but, I love it..real cool house ( it is exactly what I want MINE to look like when I am done messing around with the major details)..and a wacky customer……
Anyway, here is shot just before I finished it up.
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Hey, that looks like a bunch of fun!! Beautiful place, too. Congrats on your first "solo"!
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Thanks Hook, It really helped me "emotionally" to see what the heck I am working towards..my place feels sooooo much better now, that I have seen what I am striving for..a real boost to keep on plugging away.Without the help of Greencu providing a paycheck, I'd never get this done..and with the new skills I am picking up, it just makes it that much more manageable.I am really psyched now to get sping time rollin, and get some serious work done..BTW, it musta been 60 today, I was sweating..what a joy.
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It's gotta be a boost for the brain to be able to get out and just plain work. Strip off the layers and get sumthin' done! I look forward to the next couple months when the weather will be turning. I will most likely be inside for the next 4 months trimming a monster. Maybe thats a good thing. Man, just in those pics I can tell what a beauty the area is.
Unfortunately, you sunbathing "nekkid" on that copper roof isn't really what I needed to visualize tonight!!ADH Carpentry & Woodwork
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NOT ME ya idge..wimmen..LOL
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duane... keep it up and i'll start lining up jobs for you in JamestownMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Please excuse my ignorance, but why does one put copper where no one can see it, and is it better than other painted metal roofing?
-zen
painted metal is crap..copper is like luggage, ya keep it for life.
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Thanks Mike, all the praise has to go to my teacher...the man is a saint.........But, I could be tempted with some more beer and lobster..LOL
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cool roof and house- yer gettin' to be the man for specialty roofs
NOT ME ya idge..wimmen..LOL
Ahhhhh, my stomach feels better already........
-m2akita ( errrr, Im gonna have to change that to 3)..
Hey Spiderman - What's a brand new Cougar Paws owner doing up on a flat roof like that?! You had the elevation, just need another 30 degrees of pitch there and that one would have been a sure enough fun project!
Seriously, I envy the skill you're acquiring. Good work!
LOL...too darn muddy on the ground to wear them PAWS..the last cedar roof i did, I carry them up and pull off the mudders and swap out..Man, KY is the MUD state..I still keep askin myself where is the Blue GRASS..? All I see is mud..I'da added some slope to that roof iffen it were mine..but he wanted the head room on the second floor porch...heck, it's a good place for sun bathin nekked..this house is SO far out in the Boonies, and ya need 4wd to get to it..a slice of heaven.Really, it is...absolutly heaven.
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It amazes me to find new skills 'hidden' within!
Nice work Duane.
Looks like Tom has got some serious thermal mass goin' on with that chimney ha?
ok, last pic, what's the red thing at the end of the picture??
Eric
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That my friend is a coca-cola sign in the woods..up the stream. He also has pair of Zildgen cymbals on a fence post...riddled with bullet holes.Eccentric is NOT quite enough of a word to describe him..here, he went up the roof (and that chimney)...
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I plink old skill saw blades with the 22.
Who did the rest of the roof?
And your telling me HE'S eccentric.
Ha, ha ,ha ,ha, ur crackin me up!
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Greencu did the rest..or one of his proteges..looks pretty cool when it gets green like that..he said it's about a year+ old on the main house...Ya, I am nutty too..gotta be to fit in around here it seems..Tom is a trip tho'..he wanted to stock the roof with the pans for me..I hadda tell him 5 times, I'd be tripping over them, and I need to go up and down the ladder to stretch my back..and have a smoke.It's also way cool that I can take my dog with me, there are a few other dogs he can play with..one is a Great Dane , his head comes up to my hips..and I have a 38" inseam! BIG dog.Eddy just sits in the van and hides...
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That is one nice roof. People flying to Chicago will enjoy it. ;~)
Kipherr
Duane, how is the old roof/new roof joint done?
I have a similar roof and would like to add a hip porch. I'm trying to figure how to tie it together now.
I asked in another thread and got a good idea of how to meet the wall, but still need to tie into the existing roof somehow.
Joe H
nice lookin' spot - - is the cabin 'new'? from these picts looks new, but traditionally made...
looks likes there might be some work to be had on the end opposite the chimney, there are obviously some plans....
yur a lot greener than we are, things are sodden here, it's raining which is suppose to turn to 5" of snow later tonight - -
ah, February....
is dat a 'pioneer satillite dish'?
"there's enough for everyone"
David, it was re-build ( ishoulda, I shoulda) from Bath Co. KY.Yes, there will be more added on the gable end, he wants a "tower" over a full basement..The whole thing was done so well...I am totally geared up now..and learned a lot...of what not to do..LOLYer place ain't lacking bro'...you too, have helped me immensly.
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Your place and Tom's = memories of Cades Cove, TE
The old is a vented soffit, the new is tucked under and flanged to creep up under, then a sorta counterflash will cap to keep the wind driven snow out..
The CF is laying there in one of the pics. I will flatten the stands and rivet that CF to the stands and tuck under the old drip edge.I need more bandaides...this stuff is slicey.
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Sphere; Looks nice. I must confess...you know my cupolas on my stairshop? They have curved roofs and I wanted so bad to do my own standing seam copper roof for them. I bought the copper....and failed miserably on my attempt...so I just shingled them and went back to building curved stairs. Oh well....I tried.
Stan
Stan, it's all in the tools. G showed me how to do a concave bend in about 2 minutes..I'll have to get back to ya about convex...new territory and all that.
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Very cool, SPHERE. I've been fortunate, during my career, to work on some great houses in incredible settings, and I've considered that to be one of the benefits of the job. Right across the street from the beach, 30 feet from the shore of Lake Tahoe, overlooking the Capitol building in Austin...I'm sure all of you have similar stories. You got a nice one this time, too. Good for you on the roof. I know you got a natural high off of that job, the kind that only a craftsman doing fine work amid beautiful surroundings can experience. It's why we do what we do.Allen in Santa Cruz
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Where was that house built? Nice job.
WAY..WAY..out in Estill Co. KY....a very deep valley.
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A job well done. It looks beautiful. Congrats on losing your virginity.
sphere-----
It looks like a nice place to visit----but I certainly wouldn't want to live there!
Especially if it is populated by dudes who look like that guy standing on the chimney LOL
always interesting to see what somebody ELSES little slice of heaven looks like.
BTW-----up here in akron, OHIO------yesterday sunny and about 64 degrees----ground and roofs clear of snow and the trees looking like they could pop out leaves at any minute---------- re-flashed a big chimney
THIS morning----about 3 inches of snow on the roofs and ground and it's still coming down----oh what a difference a day makes.
Stephen
Duane didn't elaborate on where this place is, but you go back a gravel road for about three miles, cross the creek and go another mile+ after the gravel stops. When it's wet, it's iffy whether you can make it without 4WD. When my guys did the main roof, they went in on Monday and came back out on Thursday. This is the 3rd cabin I've done for this guy and he keeps getting further away with each one.
Scissors cut paper. Rock breaks scissors. Paper wraps rock.
I try to limmit my work to about a radius of a few blocks from my house.
If I had to drive all the way out there-----how would I eat lunch in my own kitchen? LOL
Stephen
It's actually only about 45 mins from Sphere's house. Takes me about 90 mins, but I ate my lunch at home before I went out there yesterday.Like the Tucson, I shall rise again from the ashes.
yeah, 5 minutes to his bridge and 40 minutes crawling thru the forest...LOL
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That roof looks great, Sphere. I don't know squat about standing seam roofs, much less copper, but that is very pleasing to the eye.
Am I right in assuming the material is expensive and the labor is too (that's IF you can find someone to do it)?
You be willing to talk money there?
Thanks...I just sub to the Master...priceing is not my forte'...but I do know...iffen I won't or need a roof...it's gonna be copper.
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as my Dad would say ...
(each and every time we did a roof)
Looks good ... Just don't step back to admire yer work!
that was one of his roofing lines ... the other ...
as we're pulling nails outta the bags and nailing fast ... (pick one out and it's nail point up/head down ...... he'd just wait till ya saw him and throw that one over his shoulder..)
That one must be for the "other side" of the roof!
funny ... till I realized it was me that had to go down the ladder and pick up all them damn nails ....
btw ... U wanna piss off the help ... also works for porch decking ... "other side of the house" ....
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