Bernice found my web site and contacted me on May 3/08 to get a bid for copper gutters and a roof cleaning with the copper ridge caps on her home in Gresham.

I made these custom ridge caps from large 3' X 10' sheets of 20oz copper. For the roof over their garage I just made it with 18" wide sheets and 8" on the front side and 10" on the back North side of the roof. For the house roof I made this  set with 24" wide sheets and bent it to have just the same 8" on the front and a full 16" on the back North side, since that roof was twice as big and had much more moss on it.

I had sent her several of these photos through e-mail, so she could see what I am doing for herself, and also see issues that were hidden from the ground, like what the painters did about her chimney top.

Here is some close-up shots of the mitered endcaps I do on most copper gutter jobs. It costs a bit extra of course, so it is more rare that I do this for my aluminum gutter clients, but it is rare that my copper gutter clients ask me not to finish off the ends this way just to save that cost. I make no claims that these would work any better. It is strictly a cosmetic detail. They had opted for the less expensive black painted steel hinged leaf screens.

This was a fairly simple installation, once I had the exact measurements and a couple days in my shop processing these gutters and Leaf-catchers. It only took day to get these gutters and downspouts attached.

$1,000 - moss removal and treated the roof
$2,030 - 20oz copper ridge caps
$2,655.04 - 175.48' of 20oz copper gutters 16oz downspouts w/removal
$300 - 6 mitered end-caps to seal
$305.25 - 122.1' of steel hinged leaf screen
$260 - 4 larger no-clog outlets
$260 - 4 leaf-catchers
$5 - enlarged hole in the back deck for the new downspout

The final adjusted cost was $106.96 less than the original bid