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roof ridgeline terminators
I'm trying to find roof terminators for our 1910 vernacular late style Victorian cottage. We have a
photo of the house in its early days and all three gables have terminators. I have only found one
internet site that carries terminators. Anybody have any suggestions as to where I might look?
Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Andy Streenz on -
What website have you found them on? Do you have any pictures you can post of your house or similar ones?
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Permalink Reply by HK Harris on -
Hi Andy,
I found them on the Capital Cresting website. They have two or three styles - none of which look much like the ones that used to be on our house. I do have a picture of our house in its early days but our scanner is
broken so I'm out of luck there. I'm a little surprised that it is so hard to find terminators. Wonder if it's a
regional thing.
Thanks for replying!
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Permalink Reply by jane on -
are you talking about the iron fret work that runs along a ridge or around the top of a square tower?
Maybe you are using the wring word when you google?
(I often check with my field guides to figure out what word to use to describe something .. 'mullion' and 'muttin' was the last thing I worried over.)
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Permalink Reply by jane on
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ha! no wonder I can't find the right definition - I can't spell it!
"Muntins" separate/hold the glass panes in the window. 'Mullions" separate/hold the windows themselves.
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Permalink Reply by jane on
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I went looking - googling - for 'Victorian roof cresting" because I knew of a company in Vermont, as well as Capital Cresting.
No luck so far. Perhaps the company doesn't exist today.
There were a few sites that seem to manufacture custom cresting for historic restoration of major sites...
The other place I looked was Traditional Building's website, under 'links to suppliers'. 'Traditional Building' is the commercial historic restoration magazine which was once, in the beginning, part of the Old House Journal. In my experience everyone who wants to be known in that world advertises there. There were some possibilities in the listings, so you might look.
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