Installation Instructions

Installation Instructions

Cupola Installation Guide

Beautiful Practical Elegant
You'll love the look of your home sweet home with a cupola -- banish boring roof lines. Add value and beauty. Your friends and neighbors will love it too!

1. Determine Your Roof Pitch

Nail two boards together at on end. Lay the boards along each side of the peak of the roof letting them intersect at the peak as shown. Mark pencil lines along the boards where they cross each other or hold the angle firm with a "C" clamp.

2. Mark The Cupola Base
Draw a vertical centerline on the two opposite sides of the cupola base. After checking to be sure you have not changed the angle, carefully lay the board on the base. They must meet at the lower corners of the base and also meet at the center line where they cross as shown. Draw the cutting line on the base and cut out from each corner to the center line. When both opposite sides have been cut the cupola is ready to install.
Note: For roof pitch steeper than 9" rise per foot, the extension can be site built.

3. Prepare Your Roof - Decorative
Cut and remove the portion of your ridge cap that would normally be under the cupola. This allows the cupola to fit more snugly against the roof between the two cut ends of the ridge cap. If your cupola is for decoration only, your roof is ready for the cupola.
Ventilation
If your cupola is to be used for ventilation -- cut an opening in the roof along the peak 6" smaller than the width of the cupola shingles and sheathing only. Do not cut ridge or rafters. Then cut down each side from the peak maintaining a 3" minimum border inside cupola base.

4. Install The Cupola
Set the cupola in place on the roof. Be sure that it is sitting level. Drill holes at least 3" from the corners (see drawing) in both of the uncut sides of the cupola base. Fasten cupola to the roof with #10 or #12 wood screws of sufficient length to penetrate the roof boards. Caulk where the base and the roof meet on the angle sides only. Fill the screw holes and apply one or two coats of a good latex or oil base house paint.
Your cupola will now provide you with maintenance free pleasure and efficient year-round ventilation for many years to come.

Installation of Finials and Roofcaps

(Skip to step 3 if installing a roof cap only.) First, determine if it is possible to drill a 3/4" hole into the peak of your roof for bottom of Finial's post. This is the best method for anchoring a Finial drill hole UP TO 4" into peak.
Trim brass post if necessary. Finial's large globe should rest on cap's copper tube.
Properly seal roof before installing cap. ROOF CAPS SHOULD BE USED FOR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES ONLY.
Use PLENTY of ADHESIVE SILICONE CAULKING inside cap around bottom of post, along each bend where solder shows, around nail holes where Finial enters cap and around screw that secures Finial to cap. Place caulk in roof hole also, if applicable.
Set Finial (Cap) on roof and plumb.
Using care to assure that points on cap bottom will not get caught, push firmly, but not forcibly, onto roof peak. Secure using roofing nails in holes provided by placing 2 opposite nails. Double-check plumb and finish securing cap to roof.
NOTES:

Copper is soft and will bend and dent easily. Use caution when handling!
This page is intended as a suggestion. Installer may have superior methods for installation.
For best results, use the best quality ADHESIVE SILICONE CAULKING available; applying liberal amounts throughout installation!!

INSTALLATION OF TWO 48" BASE PAGODA CUPOLAS

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Replacement of two 36 inch base pine pagoda cupolas on a 48 ft barn

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Installation of 48"base and 72"base cupolas on a 150' barn

Inside each cupola is a 'BREEZA FAN' model VG36DM 36" with a direct drive - 1/2hp - 1ph - 825rpm - single phase - TRI-blade. The outside shell of the fan housing is 41-1/8" which slides snuggly inside the 48" x 48" cupola with minimal fastening to be required [about 45 minutes labor].

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Installation of a 42" Hartford on a 48' roof

42' Hartford on a 48' roof w/606 Heron
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1. Determine Your Roof Pitch	Nail two boards together at on end. Lay the boards along each side of the peak of the roof letting them intersect at the peak as shown. Mark pencil lines along the boards where they cross each other or hold the angle firm with a "C" clamp.
2. Mark The Cupola Base	Draw a vertical centerline on the two opposite sides of the cupola base. After checking to be sure you have not changed the angle, carefully lay the board on the base. They must meet at the lower corners of the base and also meet at the center line where they cross as shown. Draw the cutting line on the base and cut out from each corner to the center line. When both opposite sides have been cut the cupola is ready to install.	Note: For roof pitch steeper than 9" rise per foot, the extension can be site built.

3. Prepare Your Roof - Decorative Cut and remove the portion of your ridge cap that would normally be under the cupola. This allows the cupola to fit more snugly against the roof between the two cut ends of the ridge cap. If your cupola is for decoration only, your roof is ready for the cupola. Ventilation If your cupola is to be used for ventilation -- cut an opening in the roof along the peak 6" smaller than the width of the cupola shingles and sheathing only. Do not cut ridge or rafters. Then cut down each side from the peak maintaining a 3" minimum border inside cupola base.
4. Install The Cupola Set the cupola in place on the roof. Be sure that it is sitting level. Drill holes at least 3" from the corners (see drawing) in both of the uncut sides of the cupola base. Fasten cupola to the roof with #10 or #12 wood screws of sufficient length to penetrate the roof boards. Caulk where the base and the roof meet on the angle sides only. Fill the screw holes and apply one or two coats of a good latex or oil base house paint. Your cupola will now provide you with maintenance free pleasure and efficient year-round ventilation for many years to come.