new roof

I Just added this roof to my home. I built it in my shop and installed it in less then 16 hours. Made it out of scrap around the shop.>>>

there when I look. Try with your glasses on :silly:>>>

Cool. Do you have pictures of the other side? ;)>>>

I see the same thing as Mike...It must be a white roof!>>>

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Looks good, Copperman. About how much does it wiegh?

I was thinking of hanging a small metal hip roof cover above the side door to my garage, just big enough to shelter me from the rain while unlocking the door. I was thinking of having it made of just metal without any framing, but unsure if it would make alot of noise in the rain or be too flimsy.>>>

that was strange the first pic. came up for me a few times now it's gone. It is not heavy. made it all out of Hem/Fir and white pine. I painted it to match the house and also put a blue stone landing out the door. As far as the arm ,I'm working but in pain. Doc says go it will be ok. Don't have to much work though. I.m waiting for the framers to finish a large addition that gets a slate roof. the pictures came off my cell phone. I'm learning all kinds of technological things these days>>>

some new copper pole gutters I did Last Week>>>

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Man,I like those gutters >>>

Not too shabby!>>>

Vaa that's the way theses type go on. The soil pipe is going to be removed latter when the old part of the house is remodeled. These gutters act as snow guards an gutters in one also. there was over 100 ft. the slate roof was done about 10 years ago by another roofer and it was done very poorly. I had a lot of repair work to do on it. They used the old 100 year old lath over and it was mostly rotten and there was very poor nailing. A lot of broken slate and broke through nails.>>>

That's an interesting gutter system. Is that common there? Does the downspout go down through the soffit?

I was curious why you didn't use pt for the 2x2. I'm not saying it should have been or needs it, it's just that it wouldn't have been that much more (less than $20) to have used it.>>>

Yes these are common in the area were I live. Also called Philadelphia gutters or Yankee gutters. Yes the down spout goes through the sofit. As far as PT 2X4 it's not needed because water cant get to it and I am worried about the corrosive effect it would have on fasteners and the copper. Another plus with this system is you have a toe board installed and it makes repairs a lot easier in the future.>>>

I see that the gutter has pitch built into it, but is the 2 x 2 that you screwed through the slates pitched too? Hard to see in the picture.

It would be a bitch to repair the slates beneath that puppy if one was broken.>>>