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The house is up and the designer has asked if she can have a weather cock!

 

looking on line it’s not clear to me how they afix it to the roof, has anyone installed a weather vane and if so how ?

 

She wants it to sit on top of here

 

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41 minutes ago, Triassic said:

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She wants it to sit on top of here

 

Nice idea. Very nice idea. 

 

The rafters are exposed (albeit under something like Kloeber Permoforte) ? There will be some fitting that works well - use that - and then cap it off with code 5 lead?

 

As usual, I'm short on detail.....

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On a different note, could you consider a locally made one designed for *you*, rather than a generic cockerel ? Should not be horribly expensive compared to a house. I would love to have the chance to do one of those eventually somewhere, but at present I just have inherited gryphons.

 

Personally I would be tempted by something like a bicyclist or a local artisan, or even Duncan Campbell on his lake.

 

But make it worthy of the work and time you have spent building the house; you deserve that fillip.

 

Ferdinand

 

 

 

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One thought - will you need Planning Permission, or a variation?

 

Here's a place that do Occupation-based weathervanes, including hundreds of professions:

https://www.weathervanes.co.uk/category/weathervanes/occupations/

 

Cost is £150-£500.

 

Heating engineer:

 

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Bricklayer

 

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Shaun the Sheep

 

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(I think they have photoshop ?)

 

Ferdinand

 

 

 

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Nice video @Ferdinand Now for the technical stuff.

 

I like the idea of making a weather vane, I also want to keeping things local.  I need to make the mounting rod that fastens to the house. So, what diameter is the rod sticking up from the mounting plate. I assume it’s solid and the weather vane tube is hollow and slides over it?

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42 minutes ago, Triassic said:

What’s the likelihood of lightning hitting a copper weather vane? Would I need a conductor to earth?

 

 

In the world of sailing it is claimed that when a yacht has an earthed mast (big wire electrically connected to a metal keel) then a spiked lighting rod at the top of the mast will discharge a stream of ions in conditions that could lead to a strike. The net result is that a yacht moves within a bubble of reduced electrical potential which persuades a lighting strike to find a path to earth elsewhere.

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Info as b****** f****** w******* Apple just deleted my post.

 

Professional Lightning Engineers’ Body

http://www.atlas.org.uk/

 

Ecclesiastical Insurance advice, who insure churches

https://www.ecclesiastical.com/risk-management/church-lightning-advice/

https://www.ecclesiastical.com/documents/lightning-protection-guidance-notes.pdf

 

F

 

 

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