540-687-0603 is Our Alpha Rain main number,  Leesburg VA video on metal roofing panels using screws or nails. Take a look at our video and please check us out at https://alpharain.com/contact-us/

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Alpha Rain at 540-222-1642, this video is for Leesburg VA Metal Roofing attic ventilation, I will show and describe how we ventilate the attic. We have been working on custom ventilation for our metal roofs for over 10 years, and now we offer a very efficient way to ventilate your attic and roof.  We are alpha rain the metal roofing company.

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1. Vented J Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQTyqBTyfo
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On April 18th 2014 we installed a new metal roof in Leesburg Virginia.  This is the live video we shot from the job site.  Please give us a call at (540) 222-1642 to learn more about our amazing energy efficient metal roofs.  We have complete many metal roofing projects in Leesburg and we’ll soon be uploading some new videos from those projects. Click here to watch the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hiuJfFXsaI or watch below:

In our last post, we left you with our challenge on how to install this particular copper roof. As we noted we had a curved convex deck and a curved or convex hip as well as wider panels that our pan machine could make as well as a single lock hand-crimped 1″ standing seam application. The solution was pretty simple: we unpacked all of our hand tools from generations gone by and attacked the problem like our tinsmith forefather’s would have.

Here are the results: these hand made panels are hand-formed, hand-crimped and curved using a tool similar to the tool used on the male end of downspouts so that the panels are curved to match the deck. Simple right? I believe we have the best craftsmen in Northern Virginia!

For more information please visit our website at AlphaRain.com or call us at 540-222-1642.

Metal Roofing VA Oil Canning

What in the world is oil canning? In the vernacular of metal roof installers oil canning is when a metal roof, particularly standing seam metal roofs, has bulges and ripples in it. This phenomenon occurs for a plethora (I always wanted to use that word in a blog) of reasons. The main culprit is the roof deck. Think of it this way, the deck of the roof is the bones and the metal roofing VA is the skin. However the bones lay, that is how the skin is going to lay. If the deck has as little as a 1/8 inch deflection then that panel will not lay flat. Here are some more reasons, if the master coil is slit with more tension on one of the decoilers then it will keep that tension in that coil and the panel won’t lay perfectly flat. Add to that humidity and when the humidity around the roof is different it will oil can.

These types of roof also expand and contract with heat or cold weather. A 50 foot panel will “stretch” as much as ¼ of an inch between the summer and winter months. In these panels we actually use clips that allow the panels to expand and contract. If you compare the new steel panels with the old tin panels you can see that we have made some headway on reducing oil canning. However we don’t think we will ever be able to eliminate it altogether.

For more information on oil canning and other elements of standing seam metal roofing VA please visit us at AlphaRain.com or call us at (540) 222-1642

Everything You Need to Know About Snowbirds

I noticed we don’t have any information about snowbirds on our website. Since we just had about 16″ of snow this seams to be a relevant topic. Why do we need snowbirds? After it snows 6″ or more metal roofs will generally release the snow in a sheet of ice on the first sunny day and anything under this avalanche is in jeopardy.
If there were more snow it generally slides off in one huge mass. There are two styles of snowbirds pictured below.

Both the red and green snowbirds are powder coated the color of the roof metal. Painted snowbirds only take a few snows before the freezing action of the snow pulls all of the paint off. The snowbird on the right is made of bronze and used on copper roofs. All these snowbirds are attached with two set screws on the standing seam metal roof so as to not penetrate or mar the metal or paint. Please let us know of any questions you have at AlphaRain.com or call us. (540) 222-1642

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Standing Seam Metal Roof Installation Middleburg VA

To vent the roof below the Widow’s Walk we installed a vented J channel. As you can see from the photo there is a plastic mesh between the roof deck and the j channel to allow for the hot air in the attic to escape. We then slide the standing seam roofing panels into the j channel and we trim out the connection between the j channel and the Widow’s Walk with a counter flashing.