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Custom Fancy Copper
Leaderheads - Portland, Oregon Project |
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Hand Made in
USA! (Actually in New York) |
100% Copper -
16 oz |
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In September of 2014 I was lucky enough to get a phone
call from a custom builder up in the Portland, Oregon area. Turns out
he had some very specific water collection needs for a project he was
working on, and was happy to find a company he could talk to about his
needs. Over the course of a few days we had some
phone conversations, exchanged some sketches, and got to work. Within
7 working days product was out the door to Portland and we had a happy
customer.
A right angle outside mitre custom copper leaderhead,
a fancy leaderhead with a custom high back, and another custom copper
leaderhead designed to be tucked into the corner of a building against a
wall. |
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| The design of the house necessitated
putting two collector boxes up against the wall in a corner. Our
customer asked us to make two mirror image custom copper conductor heads,
and we came through. |
We took the classic styling of our fancy
copper leaderhead but gave it a high flange back to meet the customer's
installation needs. We also increased the size of the collector box in
order to handle potentially heavy rains in the Pacific Northwest. |
This custom leaderhead required some
thought, but execution was a snap. The custom home has valleys
dropping directly to an outside mitre. We fabricated this copper
leaderhead into an outside corner designed to feed one three inch copper
leader. |
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| The sketch we used to make the mirror
image leaderheads to tuck against the wall. |
The sketch for the outside mitre custom
copper leaderhead. |
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The bottom of the mitre leaderhead |
Note the soldered seams on
the back of this custom copper leaderhead. |
A top down shot of the outside mitre
custom copper leaderhead |
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All 8 of the leaderheads before
being wrapped and boxed for Fed Ex to take out to our customer in Portland. |
| We were also able to supply the copper
roof vents for this project. With the roof being installed, our
customer was happy that we keep copper roof jacks in stock ready to ship.
With one phone call, four
copper roof jacks were shipped out the same day they were ordered. |
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We Can make any size and style
copper leader head you can think of or sketch! This picture shows a large
custom leaderhead, our
stock 4" and 3" fancy leaderhead, as well as a "fluted"
leaderhead which gives a bit more depth.
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These 10 custom copper leader heads were fabricated for a
restoration in Chicago. The customer sent us a sample, and we turned
the order around in about 10 business days. |
Another customer wanted to have closed tops on the leader
heads, and a removable sleeve as a transition and for cleaning. With
an accurate sketch we were able to fabricate these no problem. |
Detail of the closed top copper leader head. We removed the
sleeve for this picture. You can see the seams are all soldered. |
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To get water from a flat roof
to a copper leaderhead you will need some form of drain. Going through
a parapet wall your best bets are a
flanged scupper or a
thru-wall leaderbox |
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| Also made here in New York, our
copper scuppers are built to stand the tests of time and the elements.
Perfect as an overflow drain or an easy to install primary roof drain. |
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If you want to divert water directly to a leader, or prevent
a rush of water from leaving your roof, our
copper
leaderbox is just the ticket. |
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