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Medulus -> RE: The Way It's Supposed To Work (8/21/2006 1:11:54 PM)
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Here are the three responses that helped the most. I'm not identifying the respondents. They can speak for themselves if they care to. Appears to be a typical north east style built in box gutter. Usually made from 40# tin (terne metal) or galvanized. If it is the original, then the holes can be parched by soldering a piece of material over the holes. The problem is that the areas will be much weaker due to age. Suggest a replacement of the product, this will cost based on the material:Terne 15.00 LFGalvanized 12-13.00 Per lineal ft.Copper 20-22.00 Per lineal ft. Check the stretch out of the material, that is the total distance from the outside edge to the finished inside edge under the roof shingles. If it is 24" or less then you will have no problems.However, all the materials have to custom bent to shape and all seams soldered at no longer than about 12' lengths. Extremely labor intensive, expect 20-30 LF per day for a two man crew if done in the field.If possible to field measure and bend up in a shop, the project could be done in a lesser time and you would get 50-60 LF per day for a 2 man crew, The pricing is as remembered from some years ago, so an increase of up to 50% would not be unreasonable. And It looks like "box guttering" that is made out of the same materials that are used for built up roofing (felt and tar, etc). I grew up in ILL in a house built in 1900, and we had a lot of these on them. One thing that puzzles me is the 3 tab shingles in this area, above it. Most times you run into these gutters it is on roofing that has very little pitch to it or almost flat roofs (porches, etc). It is a hot mop job to do the repair, and I'd guess there are very few roofers that still work on these. These are built into the roof above where the soffit is and "boxed in", then lined with felt and tar, and generally goes through the roof at the ends into downspouts. Back when I lived up that way in the late 70's early 80's I had pricing on this, but been in rebel land since and it has been since hurricane Hugo since I've probably dealt with these. I'd suggest looking up some hot mop roofers and calling them and see if they work on box guttering and see if they can give you a price. Don't know if there would be a price in the claims program or not, but it could either be under roofing or guttering. Don't have a claim program activated to look it up. Hope this helps. And Box guttering is the word that had escaped me earlier in my response back to you, and I have only encountered this situation once or twice in my career and always in the Northeast. I don't recall a cost figure for replacement of such, but you could probably do an estimate based on materials and labor and then add a couple or three dollars per linear foot and be pretty much on the money. If I were a betting man, I would bet somewhere in the $14 to $18 per linear foot basis. Here is a picture of the guttering:
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