weekender7
WKR
My wife and I are building our own home for our "retirement". I have a couple questions about the standing seam roof I am trying to install. If you can spare me a couple minutes, please PM me.
My wife and I are building our own home for our "retirement". I have a couple questions about the standing seam roof I am trying to install. If you can spare me a couple minutes, please PM me.
Get a climbing harness or construction harness and rope, start at one end and straddle the ridge and straddle and shimmy/slide across to the other end, place an eye bolt and safety clip on your rope every 15 feet or so as you go. At the far end install your roof vent and work your way back to the beginning removing your safety eye bolts along the way.Thank you to those who have PMed me, I replied to your PMs. For those interested, I am posting a pic of the house. I am having difficulty figuring out how to physically install the 62' ridge cap on the 10/12 roof line. I haven't been able to come up with a way to do it safely. I can straddle the ridge to get the first 10' section on no problem, but then I can't figure out how to proceed from there. The ridge cap is too "flimsy" to support a man's weight. The 10' sections need to overlap. I can't stand on 10/12 pitch. I have a knee replacement and partially fused ankle on the same side making "side hilling" painful.
I fabricated and installed triple lock standing seam roofing from lead coated copper back in the late 80's.....twin church steeples 300'+ tall and I bet it is doing fine today.
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