Brick Tudor, Hawthorne Court ·
Copper half-rounds on a brick Tudor
A 1928 brick Tudor with steep gables and painted aluminium gutters that never looked right. Now it has soldered copper half-rounds, round downspouts and leader heads where the valleys pour.
- What we did
- Painted aluminium gutters off, 6 in copper half-round gutters on forged brackets, round copper downspouts with two leader heads, every seam soldered
- Run
- 142 ft
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $7,850 all in
The owners had restored the windows, the leaded glass and the slate-grey roof, and the white aluminium gutters were the last thing that looked wrong. They wanted copper, done the old way.
We spent the first day taking the old gutters down and setting forged brackets every two feet, the second and third soldering six runs of half-round copper in place, and the fourth on the round downspouts and two leader heads at the valleys, where the steep roof pours the most water. The copper is bright now; in a year it will be the colour of an old penny.
Run sheetJob 260821
- Profile
- Half-round
- Size
- 6 in
- Metal
- 16 oz copper
- Colour
- Bright copper, left to weather
- Run
- 142 ft in 6 runs
- Downspouts
- 4 round, 3 in, 2 leader heads
- Pitch
- ¼ in per 10 ft
- Hangers
- Forged brackets, every 24 in