This solid 20oz copper turret roof cap was custom made for our clients named Robert Fischer in Elk, Washington. It is for their 16/12+ pitch octagonal turret roof that is 20' wide on the house they just built.  I designed the roof cap be 18/12 to compensate for any irregularities, and made it an 40" wide cap with the scallop tails design.

I designed his cap with a 32/12 pitch steeple cone for the Victoria finial support. This was a large roof cap, so the base cap had to be made in a single sheet with 7 sides and a single side for the back, as seen here.

Below is the bottom base of the support pipe being soldered and drilled out for long rivets to go through the 3 to 4 layers of copper here to hold it in place to be secure and independent of the roof. I then caulked over this to make sure it was double sealed from outside and underneath incase I had missed something. there is some silver gaffer's tape over the caulk.

I then made the steeple cone to cover this and support the top of the pipe. It was soldered to the pipe and a special coupling was soldered over the steeple cone tip to help anchor it in place to the pipe.

The steeple cone is attached to the base cap with 24 rivets from inside the base cap through the flange bent under the bottom edge of the steeple cone. I caulked over the rivet heads inside the base cap and double caulked the one seam.

I made these support blocks, painted, and attached to the underside with copper screening for a hidden roof vent. under the roof cap. Below is the custom crate being built for it's safe journey to their house. I covered this frame with 1/4" hardwood plywood.

We also supplied some extra SS screws, alignment nails, a new #3 Phillips tip for the SS screws, some Gorilla Glue for the blocks attachment to the roof with some clear caulk. I pre-drilled the screw holes and set the SS screws in place, as seen here. I used twice as many screws as normal, because of the large size of this roof cap.

Cost: $1,314.90 w/finial php
(10% off for all needed info in his first e-mail)

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