Take a look at the roof of this house.
Steel standing-seam pans are 24-wide, all rollformed on site with one of those trailer-mounted roofing rollformers. The eyebrow part, though, was done in 24-wide pans going up and over, factory-stretchformed to the 20-ft R curve, and a flat-pan valley makes the S-curve necessary to transition the pitched roof to the eyebrow.
I’m building a copy of this thing now, and am in email dialogs with sort of a fraternity of folks who are doing the same, in various parts of the country. Plans are sold by Healthy Home Plans of Mill Valley, CA.
One of the other projects is just wrapping up framing, and needs to be roofed. The metal contractor stops by a couple days ago and looks at the eyebrow and starts mumbling something about how tough it’s going to be to do the curves, how water might wick up under things at the transition, etc., etc.
My question is this. How qualified can that roofing contractor be when the absolute core, the centerpiece, the one thing that should have been thought through completely in order to even bid the job, got overlooked like this.
And even more, why does this seem to happen so often?
I’ll meet tomorrow with my sheetrocker who wants to tell me how much more I need to pay him beyond what we figured, because the place has so much in drop ceiling and soffit work that bead taping went way beyond what he considers “usual.” And I’m like, hey, didn’t we discuss all this up front? And didn’t he come around when we were framing those drops, just to chat and ask about where we were in the schedule?
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We do that in copper SOOOOO easy...contact GreenCu, or CU or Seeyou..ferget the steel, not malleable enough to be done right and tight.
Fer real, copper is the choice..he'll inform ya.
I'd even volunteer to be the installer if Dale would too. Easy.
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It is 61 squares, total, Sphere. I had metal guys with the tow-behind rigs quote it at between 38K and 42K, and they all knew all about the curved part. We offered an option to the client to do everything but the eyebrow in architectural shingles, with the eyebrow in copper. Savings to client was 27K, and they took it.
These folks over in Ohio aren't sure of what they will do, now that their GC's metal roofing sub came round and acted like he'd had a frontal lobotomy.
Betcha can't do that 61 squares in copper at a price competitive with the steel! But hey, what do I know?
If you can, I know a job you guys can go to RIGHT NOW!
Gene, you call Grant..we can.
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factory-stretchformed to the 20-ft R curve
Careful there...................seen this in Metal Roofing.
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With copper, it is typically done in smaller pans of length maybe 4 feet. That is what I have seen around here.
What?...fan the plane.Grant gives us packages of 'faired' angles to install..unless I FU like yesterday..( I cut a fold line), we can make it shine.
Don't make the seams line with the main roof, fair it ouyt as a radial ..............tapered pans.
If your roofer can't do it,he aint. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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If your roofer can't do it,he aint.
Absolutely. Even with my small copper experience, that thing's uncomplicated. The antique tools I used would work fine. The only reason for high cost that I can see is the depth of the client's pocket.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
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Seen a dome done all on peice sheets me thinks.
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