Divine Invention

Resurrecting a church school with speed and savings

Challenge

Approach

Two key reasons were cited:

• Although the all-in-one product itself was a bit more expensive than conventional flashing, it offered more protections. Each five-foot panel of flexible flashing included a built-in termination bar, built-in mortar-capture system, built-in weep tabs, built-in edge dam, built-in drip-edge, and foolproof lap joints. Since all components were pre-assembled onto the flashing panels, all materials would arrive together, with no downtime waiting for deliveries.

• Regarding the tight budget, TOTALFlash's speed of installation would not only offset cost, but also it would create substantial net savings in time and labor. MTS won the bid, and the installation went beautifully.

"The old surfaces were very uneven," says Justin Fritter, project manager, "but TOTALFlash covered them without a problem. It installed easily, even in the restricted confines of a restoration job. In fact, we saved more than half the time and labor it would have cost to install conventional flashing."

Result

   — The Many Lives of Copper Flashings

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