Its excellent weather resistance keeps lead the metal most often used in conservation work - on roof coverings, monuments and historic detail.
Lead was a roofing material long before modern sheet metal appeared. In the restoration of historic buildings it is used not only out of fidelity to the original technique but because it simply performs best - it is malleable, it does not corrode and it lasts decades without maintenance.
It goes onto spire caps, roof coverings and flashing, and into the recreation of architectural details and elements of monuments.
Conservation work rarely fits standard dimensions. We cut the material to the exact size from the design, and for non-standard shapes we work from a technical drawing or from a sample of the element supplied to us.
Waterjet cutting reproduces any contour without heating the material, which matters with thin, historic detail.
The type of material, the thickness and the dimensions are enough. If you need a non-standard shape, send a drawing - we accept .dxf files and dimensioned sketches.