In House Sheet Metal Shop
Most roofing contractors buy their edge metal, coping, and flashing from an outside fabricator and wait on someone else’s lead time. KPost runs its own sheet metal shop, so the metal on your project is measured and formed by the same company that installs it, and a change in the field does not stop the job while a new piece is ordered.
The shop is ANSI/SPRI ES-1 compliant, which means the edge metal and coping it produces meet the wind-uplift test that roof specifications and building codes reference for low-slope roof perimeters. Pieces that cannot be measured accurately in advance, which is common on older buildings where walls are out of square, are formed at the job site instead.
Key Takeaways
- ES-1 is the standard that matters at a low-slope roof edge. It tests how edge metal and coping resist wind uplift, and roof specifications and building codes reference it for commercial roof perimeters. KPost’s shop fabricates to it.
- Fabricating in house protects the schedule. Custom edge metal, coping, and scuppers ordered from an outside shop arrive on someone else’s lead time. An in-house shop turns a field change into a short turnaround instead of a new order.
- Some pieces have to be made on site. Older buildings are rarely square, and metal that has to follow an out-of-plumb wall fits better when it is measured and formed at the job site.
- Dissimilar metals have to be kept apart. Copper against aluminum or bare steel corrodes the less noble metal. Separation is designed in from the start rather than added later.
- Oversized panels are part of the scope. Metal roof panels are among the components KPost fabricates at the job site, and our crews install specialized panels up to 200 feet long.
