cutting metal roofing (straight)

NoTrespassing · Apr 5, 2004

A circular saw with a fine pitch carbide tipped blade is all you need. (like a plywood blade) Snap a line and saw it. Wear safety glasses and ear protection.

Kevin

Evasive1 · Apr 6, 2004

Since you are screwing the wood down the wood does not have to be one long board. Lay down a chalk line and put down several straight shorter boards.

StoneHeartFarm · Apr 6, 2004

What I usually do is swap the metal blade from the skillsaw into the table saw and use that.

Steve

mopower440 · Apr 6, 2004

I went and bought some snips today and tried them out on a piece of scrap, it was harder to cut straight with them than it was freehanding the saw, so i wasted my money on those..so i found the straightest board i could and screwed it down like you all said and it worked out pretty darn good, only thing with that is it leaves the edge pretty rough so i have to take a grinding wheel on the end of my drill and smooth it down..hope it doesnt rust too quickly on the cut edges. Thanks for the ideas everyone!

Inspector507 · Apr 6, 2004

Put some kinda paint on that raw edge, it will show rust soon.

mopower440 · Apr 7, 2004

i really hate to paint on it and ruin the looks of it, what about putting some good grease along the edge or something like that?

Junkman · Apr 7, 2004

I would use old bad grease ..... no sense in wasting good grease on a rusty old piece of metal. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

mopower440 · Apr 8, 2004

the metal is not rusty yet..lol.. keep your fingers, toes, eyebrowes and whatever else crossed, the inspector is coming out monday to inspect what i have done so far, i was supposed to call him after i had the footings done, he inspects in 4 sequences, footings, plumbing, electric, and i think concrete, i called him to ask him something and told him how faralong i was and he said he needed to come take a look before i go too much farther, so i told him to come on out monday when im off work. Far as i can see, everything should check out ok. Good thing i got those posts bolted down!

mdbarb · Apr 8, 2004

Dunno if this is corrugated metal or what but what if you didn't cut the piece at all. Just line up one edge with the edge of the roof and let the other side overlap the previous piece of metal by the extra foot or so?