How To Install A Curved Metal Roof

Use your neoprene washer head screws to secure the metal to the sheathing.

How to install a curved metal roof.

This creates a curved roof. Able to be performed at a job site a roofing panel is slowly fed through the machine curving the panel slightly more with each pass until the desired radius is created. You ll want to order metal panels that are an appropriate color and look to complement your. Can regular sheets of metal panel roofing be installed on a curved roof with a radius of 28 feet.

Install the roofing screws vertically along each rib in the panel. Take your first sheet of metal and place it on the roof so that it overhangs the edge at least 3 4 in 1 9 cm. To make a truly round roof in metal you need eitehr tapered panels or some of the metal panels will work. This is part 1 of a 6 part video series explaining how i installed a metal roof on my house.

Remove the old roof. Align the first metal roofing panel so that it overlaps the edging by 1 2 to 3 4 of an inch and is square to the roof. The act of bending or curving a radiused metal panel occurs mechanically in what is appropriately named a radius machine. The minimum radius is 24 feet for through.

Take care the first piece is aligned precisely perpendicular square to the edge. Structurally your options include putting the roof panels just over a framing system. Believe it or not this actually our first curved radius metal roof install we ve made plenty of panels for other people who then curve it themselves when they install them. Place the first screw.

You will need to order enough metal material to cover the entire roof and this process. Be sure the larger edge is laid so that the small edge of the next panel will overlap it. Space the screws about 12 in 30 cm apart down the entire piece of metal. If you segment the roof into a bunch of pie shapes though you can use other panels as well.

We have the experience of installing large complex residential roofs as well as the southeast s largest commercial installations. In this video i cover measuring the roof figuring the metal th. Measure the roof area. We re not just metal craftsman many of us are roofers.