Need Help With Laminate Dome Roof

Looking for someone to offer me advice via e-mail concerning the tear-off and installation of a laminate dome roof. I have never done one before and have the job if I'm confident I can do it properly. I'm very interested and up for the challenge. Need advice with measuring to proper application. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Chad Hawkins theroofcompany@yahoo.com>>>

thanks for the reply guys...i will be following up with the folks offering advice soon.

regards, chad hawkins the roof company>>>

Thanks "tinner666", I was bass-ackwards on that one...I edited and corrected my post. Tough to visualize it when you don't have a pic to reference.>>>

Actually, you start on the ones (Plural)that have pointy tops.

http://rcs.si-sv2628.com/show_album_photo.asp?userid=30&AlbumID=108&file=764&s=0 You can e-mail and I'll see what other pics I can scan.>>>

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I have completed one last year....Key thing to remember is that water runs down hill (Not a pun!) It is easy to get carried away and before you know it, you relize your going to buck water and have to rip it up.

Start with the lower triange that comes to a point at the top...Now work yourself from right to left then up again on each triange. The triangles that over-lap the lower triange...use a strip of starter and over hang no more than a 1/2 inch, then install the laminates cnd cut excess off at the same angle as the starter....and use the same method as you work your way around the geodesic dome.

If you have another question...rsvp here! >>>

If I'm not mistaken, tinner, lefty, troop, twill, and pgriz, at the very least, have done at least one each. I know tinner posted pics of his, and I distinctly remember lefty posting a couple pics of his. I posted pics a few years back when coffeeshop frank was still here. That one was cedar shakes, though. I finished another shake one about six or eight weeks ago and a comp one earlier in the year.

Chad, if you want a private discourse, you can email me and I imagine I can help you. I have done all types of them, beginning in the late seventies, somewhere in the vicinity of 150 of them over the years. To my knowledge, none of them leak. My treatment of them evolved in the earlier years until I had things down cold, as they say. In the later years, I have taken everything I do up to a bit higher level of sophistication, but if you have the basics and enough patience you can do them so they last without driving yourself crazy with anxiety.

(good one, woody. I'm impressed. you have a way with words, a unique turn of mind, style, savvy, the woiks. "geodome eldergnome"...quite a ring to it lol)>>>

I think that was tinner?>>>

Was it EGG that whowed pictures of a Geodesic dome that he roofed a few years back? Very impressive, lots of detail work and cutting.>>>

Wow, EGG's our official geodome eldergnome. I think we have a match here.>>>

Geodesic and Comp Shingles. This is a home situation.>>>

When you say 'dome' what exactly do you mean by dome? Capitol dome or geodesic dome? When you say 'laminate' are you referring to laminated composition shingles?>>>