[RE-wrenches] Goofy roofing

[Jason Szumlanski]

Look into the Versabracket. We get quite a lot of metal roofing installed
around here over existing shingles with horizontal 1x4 battens. Spacing is
usually 2', however.


Jason Szumlanski



On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:55 AM, frenergy <frenergy at psln.com> wrote:

> Recently, a customer had a metal roof (not standing seam) installed by a
> "handyman".  Pretty clean installation however for some reason he ran 1X6
> stringers across the roof  on the 1/2" plywood deck spaced about every 4
> feet (as you go from ridge to eaves).  Of course the roofing screws are at
> the stringers.  I'm sure he had a *great* reason for doing so.  So now I
> have been asked to install an array on this roof.  You can feel how "soft"
> the roof is as you walk on it of course because you are walking on
> air-below-metal for most of the roof.  Stringer locations don't jive with
> possible feet/post locations for rail.  I'm usually pretty good at problem
> solving but I'm accepting ideas.
>
> Bill
>
> Feather River Solar Electric
> Bill Battagin, Owner
> 4291 Nelson St.
> Taylorsville, CA 95983530.284.7849
> CA Lic 874049www.frenergy.net
>
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