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Standing Seam Metal Shingled Roof Installation

Bob intalls a standing-seam metal shingled roof with roofing contractor Dean Fraser. Used primarily on agricultural buildings and in the northern climates, the metal roof is excellent at shedding snow and is becoming very popular in residential uses. Dean reviews the installation process noting the interlocking seams.
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Standing Seam Metal Shingled Roof Installation

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" The roofing system we've chosen. -- the -- is a -- standing seam and that refers to this part of it right here standing seam metal shingled roof. It's actually 29 gauge steel look at affectionately here as the piece that goes that the into the ruins vote. And this kind of a roof you know has its roots in a lot of commercial buildings and farm buildings agricultural areas. And traditionally up in new England and in the midwest from Minnesota and -- where it was very good at shedding all that snow but there's a lot of advantages to -- in residential use I think. You've got the look first of all. And then you've got a variety of colors that it's available in it's a recyclable material that -- come down and well we'll talk -- greater roofing contractor here about more of the specifics but dean has this really. Provides a type of roof that ordinarily is a custom installation in quite expensive."

" Right right most of the time he would do this -- right on the job site -- so that if you have a an architect specified. Standing seam metal roof very often -- lead coated copper and you start out with a raw material and you do all the bands and stuff on site right you do -- do it at a shop numbering the material to the job site -- you have a portable brake system here and right. And -- and -- the job site right now howdy -- gets started with installing the -- already got four -- in place over here well the first thing you do is you run a drip -- which -- looking at which is right -- you now yeah. This is right down here and then you run a breakage. And in the breakage of course is on the gable end of the bill goes up the outside edge -- that squares of the material right and then it just -- locks and goes up the roof from left to right. And I noticed that you've staggered at the beginning you've got like a five foot length and then a three foot length and then five -- blank and then three foot length. You go all the way across only -- that Ivan three and that sets up Europe the single look okay all the way across the roof all right and then we go up the roof. Go ahead. And so there you can see how they interlock. Goal. And overlaps. And slide right in this dissolved highly precision. Manufactured."

" And then again it's the same system of aluminum clips are steel clips Sammy. And you drive screws into the plywood sheathing. That is kind of roof comes with a pretty high rating in terms of winds and hurricanes and storms. Because of the fastening system. -- deal with it when you get up to the top up to the ridge while -- have a -- root system. It's a three piece system. And this. They get up little mock -- of it there."

" So there's -- ridge cap that goes on on the very top. These two pieces here. I screwed onto the top of the roof right like that and rope. Via clips right in. And then the roof panel when it comes up that final panel fits into the ring via the greatest is actually -- caulking right in the and it just it's and that's and clipped the roof just like you know yet they're real -- affair. OK we'll watch while you guys keep on going up."

" I like the fact that it's really easy to install there's no complicated tools we're just talkin' now. The cordless. Screwdriver and of course you're good basic Cameron Kuznetsov. Measuring tools that this particular roofing product is made by eight test. Corporation and Allentown Pennsylvania though tonight that US made product."

" Now the the math involved here is pretty simple but when you come across an odd placement in the field of the roof like the skylight here. And you have to make some adjustments and that's what -- right there correct being yes we've added -- this piece around the real lead flashing the the last when those conflict yeah and you've also lowered it so that you end up with two lines here if you will. But what that does for you is it compensate for the top the peace breaks right in the middle of the went to the left of it right what we've done that would match the scene coming across on the other side yet so they're aesthetically everything's going to be the same around what we have come across the bottom piece right over the -- yet keep the weather tight but I like the way everything interlock stuff they're just above your hand with the caller flashing on the Vila this guy when it will and Oslo process not a place and it's put -- they got underneath. And then you put the fasteners down and you keep on going. Now the the bottom section over here under the skylight. That is we get your hand that is corrugated -- product right right -- former around the scanning system. Who just above metal right lavalas on metal would be able former writer August and it seems so we've. Actually want right around experiencing is push it it's such a malleable product that you just push it right into place. I would put that top piece on which would not for the top of the skylight okay. Basically that's -- There's it would not this piece right here yeah this piece is going to cause. Continue right across to terrorist --"

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