Hi;

I spent a long 5 hours today just putting 60 feet of metal ridge cap on a metal 12:12 roof. What a pain. It was complicated by reinstalling a lightning protection system, but I had no idea it would take so long! I ended up making some staging out of 2x4s since I could not sit on the ridge and install the cap without denting it or getting it crooked.

I wonder how well a metal roof will survive a lightning strike since the lightning rods and cable are attached to it!

Does anyone have any tips for putting metal ridge cap on?

Thanks;
Jim

I've run into the same situation several times doing standing seam roofs. On steeper pitch roofs I now just rent a lift. It's only a few hundred bucks, and it's still kind of a pain, but certainly much easier.

Brad

Good time! we've been working on a vented standing seam ridge that has 3 pieces in each pan, a dam, venting plastic, and a Z bar. 6 parts under the ridge every 16 inches, all caulked and seam taped. Snap the ridge over that and then crimp. Good system but what a PITA.

I've got a pair of "necessity is the Mother" ultralight overriding (doubled bent conduit arms that override the cap with padded feet that just sit in the pans) stagings that carry ordinary roofing brackets to which a 42" plank is attached.

You just hop-scotch these down the ridge, someone feeding cap up to you as you go (and maybe your lunch if it's a long one) and moving the ladder to the opposite gable.

Sorry no pics here on the laptop, maybe when I return home tomorrow if they're not too snowbound !

hey that's a cool way to do that . smart. that question was personal here too. dents in the ridge cap --oh no!!1 but then you're up there, and the material so delicate, and there is this gravity and these knees, and now, a better way. thanks.

Thanks guys, glad it's not just me!

Don, your ridge takes the cake!

Will, I did something similar with 2x4s. Maybe a third bracket and shorter planks "hop-scotched" across the roof would have saved me about 35 trips up and down the roof ladder!

Thanks again;
Jim