Construction strategies Windows capping | Carlos Portillo | Facebook

Metal capping is sometimes tedious but so satisfying. Here are some key points in capping: 1. Know which snips to use (reds or greens - each one will lift different sides of the material) 2. Cut your mitre on the side that lifts so that when you bend it, the corner won’t crush 3. Most times the waste side is the side that lifts up - with the exception of the mitre 4. Leave tabs wherever possible 5. Think like water I taught myself how to do capping. If there were shapes I didn’t know how to cut,