The Bergstrom Roof Caps
Montesano, Washington (9-05)

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Updated 4-14-2007

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This set of two caps were made for a client named Guy Bergstrom in Montesano, Washington, just West of Olympia.  He was building this new house. The larger turret is 23' wide, and a smaller turret is 15' wide.

The roofer he hired had made this set of tiny roof caps. Guy was not satisfied with them, so he did some research on-line where he managed to find our web site and ordered a set of larger caps with decorative tails that were only a 1/8th scale to the roofs, which is the small size we recommend.

Below is a close-up of one of these tiny 12" wide roof cap seen above that we replaced on his new house still in construction (9-7-05). It was made by their professional roofing contractor to cover each of the two turrets they were hired to roof. Besides their very poor fabrication (it is the worst example I have ever seen), it was a cheap piece of steel sheet metal that was bought pre-painted to resemble untarnished copper in order to fool the Homeowner into thinking they were actually copper roof caps (which he did). The roofer saved only $3 on each turret roof cap with this cheap imitation in stead of using actual copper. That was a grand total of a mere $6 savings to inspire that roofing contractor to deceive their client and risk getting caught in this fraud. Intentional fraud for only the cost of a decent burger? Amazing!

Worse yet is how he did such a poor job of it; instead of simply cutting out a circle then making one cut to the center to simply overlap the seam to form a cone shape and caulk that one seam, as you can see here they made these 4 crude cuts to the middle and nailed this to the peak of the turrets. As to the exposed nails you can clearly see here; the whole concept around any roofing material is to have all the fasteners (nails) hidden. This goes against that concept entirely. Any exposed fastener should be no less than a stainless steel screw, so it cannot rust while holding tight pressure. Also, there was not even any caulk used to seal those 4 overlapping seams.

After my 2 decades in exterior construction work, this was the most pathetic attempts to seal a roof peak than I could have imagined. The reason roofing contractors will short cut these sort of details are because the State's Construction Contractors Board only requires licensed contractors to provide a 1 year warranty on their work. These cheap products will skate them past that brief deadline in most cases. Even if this did not even last through that first year, they know how most Homeowners will never find the strength or means to pursue this issue for resolution after their attempts for resolution go ignored by the contractor. Most clients simply loose confidence in that contractor and seek out a different contractor to fix the problem. Hoping they are not going to get taken yet again. I heard several recent cases where a Homeowner complained to their contractor about poor workmanship, and were threatened with bodily harm if they didn't drop it!

I offered to drive the 150 miles North to deliver the roof caps in person in order to get some good photos of these caps installed. This photo above left shows Guy standing beside the new turret roof caps just before installation. The above installed roof cap photos is the larger roof cap that is 33" wide plus tails, and the smaller roof cap below is only 21" wide plus tails.

 

He chose the points tails for both caps. As I said these caps are only 1/8th the roof size, which is considered a small cap, but with the tail decorations added it has the appearance more like a medium size cap. Both turrets are built at a 14/12 pitch, so we made the caps at a 16/12 pitch, so the base is sure to fit tightly to the roofing shingles.

Cost: $625 for both caps delivered

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We were also a 1997 finalist for this same award. See our referral web page to see how we managed to be honored with this special award

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