CBD's Willard Turret Roof Cap

This is a full scallop tail 8 sided turret roof cap made for our clients; Jack and Lynn Willard in Grass Valley, California to go on their classic Victorian style 1980 house.

Above top is the install photo of the house with the new turret roof cap in place and the new paint job. Below that is the old rusty steel roof cap they removed before the rust stains got too bad. They had birds nesting inside that cap through the holes in the side.

Their roof is a 24/12 pitch. This turret roof cap 20" wide plus the scalloped tails for a total width of 24". He had already purchased the Morgana finial, so we sent a brass replacement mast rod to use in stead of the cheap steel one they send with these finials. We have a special rapport with this client.

They had impressed us after showing how they had read through our web site more than most people. In so doing; they decided to share with us their account of meeting each other and recognizing their Soulmate connection. We have now received permission to host their story on our personal web site: http://mind-temple.com/ss/jack&lynn.htm

Here is the way we attach and seal the bottom of the finial support pipe to the tip of the roof cap.

Even though they are fairly light weight, we take crating very seriously. It is tricky to make a light weight crate that is also very sturdy and strong to shield the copper roof cap during shipping.

Cost $555 php.

Installation with his 50' boon lift:

Here is a couple e-mails from Jack:

From: "Jack Willard" <jack_willard@hotmail.c*m>
Subject: Re: Custom Copper Roof Cap
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007

David,
WOW! Your work is the best definition of the word "craftsmanship". The dictionaries should include one of your pictures for illustration.

It's nice to see that you could reuse the Morehouse template, and actually referred to the drawing I made for you. Not that you needed it. I'm sure that you DO see the shapes in your dreams at nite!

Watching you makes me dream of doing such work in our shop building as a rewarding retirement activity. Copper is such an eye candy. My projects will certainly include the creation of gingerbread wooden scrollwork pieces for the house.

It snowed here at the house (1,800 feet elevation) a few days ago but it's all gone now. I got pictures of the house in snow last winter before I got the new exterior painting (50%) done. Just thinking about what it will look like in snow with the new turret cap and finial is joyful.

Thanks again for the posted Soulmates story. I can see why you put our story right beneath your own. Some of the other stories are rather lame. I really like the background music. Wish it was set to repeat while your on the page though.

I can hardly wait to open the crate and get my gloved hands on your work.

Love and white light to you,

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007

Subject: Turret cap install pictures

David,
I finally got my boom lift fixed yesterday morning and installed the turret cap and finial in the afternoon. Wow it looks incredible!

I needed something to seal off under the cap to keep the birds from trying to get up under it and make a nest like they did with the old steel cap. My wife Lynn went and bought a number of packages of woven copper pot cleaning pads. They were PERFECT! The pads can easily be unrolled into a woven tube about a foot long and then you twist it to make it like piece of a rope. I jammed the pieces up under the cap with a putty knife, pulled the temporary nails one by one and screwed it down. That worked so... nice.

Here are those pictures I promised you. I will take some more when I have better sunlight on the house.
Take care,

Jack Willard
Grass Valley, CA 95949

I cannot believe I did not come up with this long before, but Jack came up with a really good lasting way to seal the bottom edges of the roof cap to keep out unwanted pests with a set of copper scrubbing pads unrolled and twisted into a sort of rope. He was nice enough to set up this display just to share this photo with us:

I noticed a questionable issue he may have with his chimney in the background of one of these photos he sent. In close examination he found that the thin brick cover over the wood box was falling apart. This was all built out over the flue pipe.

We talked on the phone about it for a while brain-storming different solution. The final decision was to remove the brick facade and wood. Then have us make a copper flue to cover the stove pipe in some what the style of the center Howard chimney pot. Here is the diagram Jack made to show me just what he has in mind with my calculation of the copper needed to form this unit.

It is made of 20oz copper sheet metal for the mid and upper sections, but the base pan/flange is made with a thicker 32oz copper for better stability in high winds.

Cost: $3,265 php

To see more photos and details description of this fabrication link to:
http://copper-by-design.com/cc/cp/Willard.htm