Quote Originally Posted by runker View Post
For house this grand, copper. In a few years you'll have a nice patina going on and they will last a life time or two or three. I've also heard the price of copper has gone down too. My grandfather was a metal smith for the first half of the 20th century and I can still see his work in the town I grew up in.
Lol... Runker, you make it sound like a royal palace!!

its just a box-standard 2 storey dwelling, my 'humble abode' or it will be when i get there...

I like the idea of either gutter (you and Norton) but for sure that copper is going to be expensive, and it's an added theft incentive for someone to break in and 'borrow'