New Cornice Needed
Our 2 family brownstone originally had a cornice which was removed some time in the 1907s. Has anyone purchased a replacement fiberglass or tin cornice recently?
Our 2 family brownstone originally had a cornice which was removed some time in the 1907s. Has anyone purchased a replacement fiberglass or tin cornice recently?
Why not install original wood cornice?
Vince from metro did ours with all details.
his number 718-529-7500
I used Wall Systems Supply Inc 5223 1st Ave Brooklyn, NY 11232-4328 718-630-5300 nice work, reasonable price.
Good luck,
Set a hard budget and then try one of the local renovation design/build architects– they will know where to get the best materials, how to help you choose the right look for the building, and how to get the best price to offset their fees. If you shop around, I doubt using an architect would cost you much more than a normal contractor, but it makes for a far better investment in the building than just half-assing it yourself.
Look in Traditional Building, there are loads of fiberglass fabricators, some better than others. Architectural Fiberglass and Seal are two of the better outfits, quality-wise.
You can also find sheet metal workers there, though a sheet-metal cornice is going to be more expensive and harder to source.
Last, was the sheet-metal cornice original to your building? Often, sheet-metal was a faux material to replace an original wood cornice.
Some local manufacturers are (metal) B&B Sheetmetal in Long Island City, and (fiberglass) Architectural Molded Composites in Long Island City and Architectural Fiberglass Corp. in Copiague, LI. It’s also worth a call to Superior Tinsmith on 6th St. in PS.
Hi!
Our contractor just installed one about 2 weeks ago from Edon. It looks pretty nice, although it took about 5 guys to do it, and because it is in 3 pieces they really struggled to match the sections up. I can totally see where the seams are even after the caulking. I’m hoping a little paint will help…and maybe we are the only ones who notice, but it still drives us nuts.
I’ll be the first to admit that my contractors aren’t the best which might account for the necessity of more man-power, as well as it showing where it’s assembled (and it took all day!), but that was our experience…hopefully yours will be better!
It has a “bracket” about every foot as part of the design, but no bracket on each of the far ends…I don’t know if this is what Bond refers to as a “return”…but I agree that it doesn’t look quite right…it doesn’t look finished…and we have looked at every other corniced house in the neighborhood and ours seems to be the only one without end pieces…
I would have loved to have a tin one and we did check some salvage yards, but it’s all timing and I hear they are very hard to come by.
Good luck!
It’s been my experience that tin cornices are almost impossible to find. The old ones usually don’t come down intact, and no one really has the old dies that were used to fabricate them anymore. You’re probably going to have to go with fiberglass. The only manufacturer I’m familiar with is Edon (www.edon.com). There are plenty of other manufacters out there, but I’m not familiar with them, and when I was looking, they seemed the best when you figured in price, reputation, warranty, ect. About 8 years ago they charged 3K for a 20 foot cornice, without installation. The problem that I had with them is that with most of the styles available, you couldn’t get returns on the ends, just a flat panel. Not a huge deal, but I just didn’t like the look. Installation wasn’t a very big deal, two ledger boards screwed to the front of the house and the cornice, which came in three pieces, hung from that. Caulk the seams and it was done. It was light enough that two people could easily install in an hour or two once the ledgers were up. They had a choice of 5 or 6 stock colors, more custom colors were available at extra cost.