Peggi Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Ok, I have let my roof for the Lily stay wrapped around coffee cans for three days, and they finally curved. Last night I put them in place. But making the edges meet has been a challenge and will probably required lots and lots of wood putty. I have decided I don't ever want to do a mansard roof again. Has any of you ever used ziplock bags filled with water to use as weights? Well I needed a weight that would form with the roof and couldn't thing of anything else to use. Finally, after experimenting, filling pint size bags 1/2 - 3/4 full worked. The gallon bag wanted to slide off. Peggi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judithfa Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Very clever! Thanks for the tip. Once you see how well it all turns, the pain will be forgotten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttiwebgal Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 yup just like having a baby...the next house that catches your eye with a curved roof wont bother you abit to buy and build...till you get to the roof.....than you will remember! but than just think of all that satisfaction of a challenge being met and overcome and how good it looks! nutti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judithfa Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 One trick for curved roof pieces that I used on my Glencroft was to score the back of the roof piece. This made it "flexible". I then glued and clamped it. You can see pictures of this on my irismarch2 website under Toad Hall. Fortunately, I only had one piece that needed to be curved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 One trick for curved roof pieces that I used on my Glencroft was to score the back of the roof piece. This made it "flexible". This is the way the mansard sections of the Dura_Craft Cambridge were made & I had debated between soaking the curved roof piece in hot water vs scoring it. How deep did you score, Judith? I was thinking about halfway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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