That house was one of my projects in the historical district here in Laredo
the house is about 140 years old, and originally had a cedar shake roof, sometime later the shakes were covered by corrugated paneling and then painted barn red
The old roof was removed and a new plywood deck installed with a ice and water barrier glued over the plywood deck
I then installed a new gutter, its a built in gutter around the perimeter of the roof, the gutter is tapered to drain to only 2 downspout drops,
after the gutter was installed, I installed a new coping around the outside edge of the house
When I was installing the new coping I found several places that the wood had dry rotted, and would not hold a screw, so I mixed exterior wood glue with exterior latex paint, and then painted the wood, worked great
I then fabricated the standing seam roof panels and installed them
after getting into the job I discovered the mortar holding the chimney brick was mostly decoration
I pulled off the loose bricks off the 3 chimneys, ( about 7 layers) then mortared them back
I didn't do the messy gray mortar patch at the chimney base, someone else did that who know when, I added red tint to the mortar mix for the repairs I did
There were no crickets behind the 3 fireplaces for proper drainage, so I fabricated them and also made all the matching roof jacks for all the roof penetrations
That cupola, wasn't originally there, the vent was lower down the side of the roof, at the wrong place to properly ventilate the attic
so I built a new cupola base on the ground, then lifted it into place, and attached it to the roof, and cut out the ventilation hole
I fabricated the square to round vent base and remounted the original vent top, which I cleaned up and repainted
This was not done in a day .............
All that terra cotta red metal, started out as 4 x 10 flat sheets