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I too am interested in doing a small roof similar to the one in question. I found a site where you can order a lot of pertinent info on copper roofing, including video tapes showing correct installation techniques. The address of the order form is given below. Hope this helps out. (www.copper.org/architecture/order-form.html)
Nick
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Hi All,
I've decided to do a small hand seamed copper standing seam roof for a porch on my old house. I've researched the subject a bit and it appears to be pretty straight forward. I have a brake to form the pans and various other tools required to bend and form the seams. Mainly becasue it's a simple and small roof I'm willing to try it.
The one main question I have is how to form the pan and seam where the pitched roof meets a verticle rising wall. I've seen that the pan continues up the wall and acts as flashing and the seam is flattened to make the bend, then covered by siding.
I'm not sure of the steps to make this happen. Do you snip the up-bends, bend the pan, solder the up-bends back together, then crimp the seam? Or do you notch the up-bends, bend the pan, crimp the seam, then solder any openings? I could really use a little step-by-step help on this from someone who's done it, or a few photos/sketches of the process. Thanks in advance.
Jim
*I think you're talking about end wall flashing. That is, where the top of the roof slope abuts a vertical wall? I'm no expert, but this is what I've done. I turn up the pans between the standing seams, then flash with a separate piece along the wall/roof. This flashing runs under the siding about 4", then out and down the slope on top of the standing seams for 6". It can also be notched and turned down into the pan, preventing wind blown rain from getting forced up under the flashing.
*Hi David,You described the application I have. Is there anywhere you know of that I can see details of this solution? I don't quite understand what you do with the seams and how you seal around them. The couple of things I've seen show the pans to be self-flashing in this situation as I described in my post. Take a look at (this is a long one): http://www.brass.org/megab2/app_sec/housapp/cu_roof.htmThis is a british site I found that has an application manual on copper roofing. Much of it is using battons rather than standing seam but they cover that too. This new roof is right next to an old 3 sided bumped out roof over a french door. The old roof is done as I described but I can't see the details. It definitely has no flashing. I'd like to do it this way if I can figure it out.I believe that the British site shows this technique but it uses a wooden angled filler between the roof and the wall. Is it okay to make a sharp bend or is it easier (better) to use the angled filler?
*I too am interested in doing a small roof similar to the one in question. I found a site where you can order a lot of pertinent info on copper roofing, including video tapes showing correct installation techniques. The address of the order form is given below. Hope this helps out. (www.copper.org/architecture/order-form.html)Nick
*Jim,The standing seams simply run up under the wall/roof flashing, to within an inch or two of the wall. They can be left open since they're out of the weather. The wall/roof flashing is attached mainly to the wall and barely attached to the roof. I have no web sites to show you, but I can scribble and fax if you like. That web site, of award winning copper roofing you enclosed was impressive, though I haven't gotten through all of it.David