Here is the template to draw out a one piece full scallop tail roof cap made for our client; Michael Wilder in Arlington Heights, Illinois to go on their house turret.

This shows the tabs we cut out to bend over to create the safety hem along the bottom edge to also add strength to that leading edge of the roof cap. It would of course be easier to just cut a smooth curve and leave it at that, but our standards are so high we are willing to do 3 times as much work to make this a better product.

This shows the hidden lower base anchor for the finial support pipe we custom built.

The copper plate here is attached to the primed and painted wood block with Gorilla Glue and these 8 stainless steel screws. I pre-drill the holes so the wood would not crack.

Their roof is only a 13/12 pitch, but we made this roof cap to have a 20/12 pitch to allow for this space in the top for the lower brace for the 7" of the pipe inside this cap. The copper pipe is secured into the block with the glue and the assembly is riveted up into the roof cap with 16 copper rivets.

This turret roof cap 33" wide with the scalloped tails. This was the first cap we have made with a larger 1" finial support pipe in it for the odd sized brass pipe they used in the construction of this Lancelot finial.

Cost: $500 php.

Mike Wilder

Below is a photo of our
Better Business Bureau's
NW Business Integrity Award
for the year 1998

We were also a 1997 finalist for this same award. See our referral web page to see how we managed to be honored with this special award