Someone reached out recently with an inquiry about the available sizes and shapes of our diamond shingles. It's a good question, and we're sharing our response here in case others are wondering the same thing.

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Topics: copper diamond shingles, diamond shaped roofing, metal diamond roofs

We are regularly asked if we can provide our copper roof profiles in a “pre-aged” finish. Certainly we can, and do, but there are a lot of details - too many to list here - that always arise whenever a client pursues that avenue. It’s worth discussing in advance for those of you who may be considering a similar project that involves making a new copper roof look old.

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Our diamond shaped roofing tiles and shingles, especially in copper, make up a big part of our business. People often ask me about the advantages of the metal roof diamonds, and I’m somewhat challenged to give a concise answer! Thinking about the question for a moment always leads me back to this: our steel, aluminum, zinc, or copper roof diamonds offer all of the advantages of metal roofing, plus the unique and special look of a diamond pattern. In addition, and in areas that get a lot of snow and ice, the shape of the diamonds make them one of the least likely to be damaged when a roof sheds snow in the winter.

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Topics: copper diamond shingles, diamond shingles, diamond shaped roofing

I was asked this question the other day and it made me think of how obvious and conditional the answer would be - but at the same time how mysterious it must be to someone outside the industry. Here's an example of a possible exchange.

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Topics: copper diamond shingles, diamond shingles, diamond shaped roofing, metal diamond roofs

We love answering questions, and recently, we were asked a good one. A fellow reached out to express interest in our copper diamonds for a project on his home. He wanted to know if we could recommend an installer capable of installing the diamonds in his ZIP code, and how challenging they would be for the average roofer. Here's what we had to say.

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Topics: copper diamond shingles, diamond shingles, diamond shaped roofing, metal diamond roofs

These photos are progress shots of our solid copper H-18 diamonds being installed on a West Coast residence. You can see the copper roof on the neighbor next door, showing a preview of   hat our diamonds will resemble in just a year or two.  

 

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Our pre-aged copper diamonds are being installed on some very interesting projects. One of the things we very much enjoy about our niche in the industry is the sheer variety of projects that we come across. The beautiful home shown in these pictures is a re-build of a very old West Coast residence that is nothing but unique. It's difficult to describe with any degree of accuracy - eclectic architecture that is part lighthouse, part Craftsman and part 50's coastal cabin. The owners wanted an unusual roof to go with their unusual home, so they chose our MRN H-18 roofing diamonds in solid copper, and asked to have them randomly pre-aged to make them look like they’d been on the house since it was first built. That’s exactly how it looks. We combined both our copper roof diamonds and solid copper standing seam for the very low-slope sections of the roof, as this particular roof had to be not only unusual and distinctive, but also practical: it had be shed debris from the many large trees that overhang the house. Between the standing seam panels and the diamonds, we were able to offer a metal roof configuration that was about as good at shedding debris as can be imagined. We even helped them with the details on the roof so that they were least likely to trap and hold whatever feel off the trees. There’s no such thing as a roof that will hold no such detritus, but the shape of these diamonds means no metal roof will hold less.

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For the second year in a row, MRN has a featured project on the Copper Development Association siten following the 2013 North American Copper in Architecture Awards! We're thrilled to have supplied copper roofing for such fabulous projects. Last year, our copper diamond shingles on a spectacular home in Atherton, California, earned a nomination as a featured project and today, you'll find that particular project as a staff pick on the copper.org site. This year, our copper diamonds again won a spot, this time for a custom tea house in Boston, Mass.

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Topics: copper roof, copper roofing, copper diamond shingles

We had an inquiry about our copper diamond shingles recently, and here's what the potential customer had to say:

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Check out one of our latest projects - custom copper shingles on a tea house in California's spectacular wine country!

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