Found a Specialist for Copper Roof Repair

Have had Pit Crew over to look at the roof for post-hurricane repair work. After the hurricane, the roofers were absolutely swamped with work. I had difficulty getting someone out to look at this metal roof, as many local roofing companies were cherry-picking deals that they wanted to do. Repairing the ridge of a copper roof was not on the list of preferable jobs. I called around and finally got someone who was experienced with copper.

They are telling us that a run of copper is probably $1000. He looked at the area where water is intruding. He suggests that water is running in through the shingles around the dormers, and not through any defect in the copper metal roof. When we fix the windows and the siding around the dormers, we will likely solve the intrusion at the valley, which will also solve water intrusion down at the first floor in the laundry area. 

This roofer wants to keep the copper, as much as possible, in its natural state. He’s driven past this house a number of times and notices the eye-catching patina of the copper roof. It is bright green, so it does stand out, just a little bit. He told us how he would install the ridge cap in a manner that is stronger than the wood-to-glue-to-ridge installation that we had previously, with a z clamp, and affixing the ridge to a stronger subsurface. It will only have to be done once for a lifetime. He said we can get some cash back for scrapping the pieces of copper that we have on hand. In the future, we will have to order the correct thickness of copper from a copper factory, and then have the ridge and z clamp fabricated.