Period Door Canopies

Colchester Period Door Canopy

The Colchester Door Canopy is a high quality duel pitch softwood joinery product, designed to suit single door openings from 900mm to 1010mm wide. The canopy can receive tiles, slate or felt tiles this design allows the use of ridge tiles and is dip treated with Honeysuckle, Glasurit Glassohyd natura base coat fungicide stain.

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Technical Information

The canopy set consist of a pair of gallows brackets, one decorative front truss one open rear truss, two plywood soffit boards. Two tilt fillets and two sprockets. The sizes quoted are Width 1450 mm measured from the extreme ends of the rafter’s foot cut to foot cut. Projection 500 mm Is the total projection from the wall to the edge of the soffit. The standard pitch is 45°. The ridge is best caped with a lead ridge this can be copper tacked to the finial post and beaten over the tiles.

The section of the materials is as follows.
Colchester Period Canopy frame

Canopy

Rafter is Ex 75mm x 50mm.
Post is Ex 75mm x 75mm.
Tie rail is Ex 75mm x 75mm.
Shoe is Ex 75mm x 50mm.
Web is Ex 150mm x 25mm.
Plywood soffits 9mm WBP.
Tilt fillet 45º splay cut Ex 75mm x 50mm.
Sprockets Ex 50mm x 25mm tapered and angled.

Gallows Brackets. SG1/T 600mm high 500mm projection.
Head or Beam Ex 75mm x 50mm.
Upright or post Ex 75mm x 50mm.
Brace or gibbet Ex 150mm x 50mm.

Code	Overall Width [mm]	Projection [mm]	Height above door head [mm]	Maximum brick opening [mm]	Pitch	Weight
CCS	1450	500	690	1010	45°	26

Optional fixing kit fits all period canopies

Fits all period canopies kit consists of 10 no 100mm 10mm sleeve anchors 18 no tile battens, slaters felt, Cement fibre soffit boards and galvanized nails. 2 no 70mm x 6mm wood screws.

Optional cast resin crest fits over a lead ridge on all period canopies.

Cast resin crest fits over a lead ridge on all period canopies

Extra projection is available as a special order.
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