Hey Spence! What a cool project! I put a cupola on my father's barn with a metal roof a few years back and just want to give you a heads up on a problem my dad's had and how I fixed it. When I scribed the base to the roof, there was still a very small gap in some areas and when I screwed the base to my 2x4 blocking, there was some distortion in the base as well. After a few months, we noticed that hornets (I think anyway) had made their way into the inside of the cupola and made a mess out of the glass and just made it look not so good. So, I took the cupola off and applied some butyl tape to the bottom of the base and reapplied it to the roof. I also made some ventilation holes with a screen on the inside to allow for the cupola to "breathe." It worked like a charm! Not sure if you may run into the same issue later on, but that is what I did and it has worked great for the past few years. Great look to the shed!
Thanks for commenting Russ! Great tip and we will keep an eye out for issues. Had a cool time with the project once my mind got on board with my motivation that day.
@@sdsconstruction it looks great on the shed! I am hoping you don't have the same issue, but just wanted to let you know what I did to fix our issue, just in case you ever run into something like that. great idea about replacing the plexiglass with actual glass!
Hey Spence! What a cool project! I put a cupola on my father's barn with a metal roof a few years back and just want to give you a heads up on a problem my dad's had and how I fixed it. When I scribed the base to the roof, there was still a very small gap in some areas and when I screwed the base to my 2x4 blocking, there was some distortion in the base as well. After a few months, we noticed that hornets (I think anyway) had made their way into the inside of the cupola and made a mess out of the glass and just made it look not so good. So, I took the cupola off and applied some butyl tape to the bottom of the base and reapplied it to the roof. I also made some ventilation holes with a screen on the inside to allow for the cupola to "breathe." It worked like a charm! Not sure if you may run into the same issue later on, but that is what I did and it has worked great for the past few years. Great look to the shed!
Thanks for commenting Russ! Great tip and we will keep an eye out for issues. Had a cool time with the project once my mind got on board with my motivation that day.
@@sdsconstruction it looks great on the shed! I am hoping you don't have the same issue, but just wanted to let you know what I did to fix our issue, just in case you ever run into something like that. great idea about replacing the plexiglass with actual glass!