Custom Sheet Metal Fabrication in NJ

A roof assembly is only as good as the metal that moves water off it. These are the custom sheet metal fabrication parts a job tends to need in odd sizes, where a stock length almost fits but never quite does. Counter flashing caps the top of base flashing at a wall or curb and tucks into a reglet so water cannot track behind it. Get the leg length wrong and the wall weeps. We brake-form it to the wall condition you actually have, not a nominal one.

Scuppers carry water through a parapet to a downspout or a leader head, and the size of the opening has to match what the roof drains. A scupper that is too small backs water up onto the membrane. Leader heads and conductor heads sit below the scupper or at the top of a downspout run, catch that water, and hand it to the pipe.

On older buildings they double as a visible detail, so the profile matters as much as the throat size. Pitch pans seal around pipes, conduit, and odd penetrations that no boot fits, and they get filled on site once they are set. Every one of these comes out of the same finished stock as the rest of the order, so the water-management metal matches the panels instead of clashing with them.

Because these parts are small and specific, a clean drawing pays off fast. A scupper detail with the opening size, the sleeve length, the flange dimensions, and the wall thickness on it gets quoted and built without a single follow-up call. That is the difference between a part that ships on the next run and one that sits waiting on an answer.

Most custom sheet metal fabrication runs in painted Galvalume steel or aluminum, and for good reason. They take a 70% PVDF finish, they hold a 50+ color range through our Sheffield account, and they cover the great majority of flashing, trim, and transition work at a sensible cost.

Galvalume comes in 22, 24, and 26 gauge depending on how the part is loaded and fastened, and aluminum in .032 and .040 for parts where weight or coastal exposure tips the call. For most jobs, one of those four is the answer.

Then there are the parts that ask for something else. Copper and zinc go on premium and historical work where the look of the metal is the point and the building owner wants it to weather into a patina over the years. Stainless steel earns its place where corrosion resistance has to be absolute, near salt air on the coast or around aggressive runoff. Galvanized steel covers industrial parts where the job needs a tough, plain substrate and a painted finish is not the priority.

We will tell you straight which way to go: there is no reason to put a copper budget on a part that Galvalume handles fine, and no reason to spec steel where the exposure is going to eat it.

Finish follows metal. The 70% PVDF coating, the Kynar 500 and Hylar 5000 chemistry, is what keeps a painted part holding its color in the sun. When a custom piece has to sit beside existing metal, a custom color match pulls the new stock to the old shade so the repair or the addition does not announce itself. Tell us the exposure, the look you are after, and what the part sits next to, and the material and finish call sorts itself out.

The fastest quotes come from the clearest drawings, so here is what a clean one carries. Put real dimensions on every leg and every bend, not just an overall size. Note the metal and gauge if you know it, or describe the application and let us call it. Say what finish or color you need, and name the existing shade if the part has to match. Flag the quantity and whether it is one piece or a run.

For a match to something already on the building, a photo shows the shape and a physical sample lets us read the exact bends and the thickness. A sketch with all of that on it gets priced without a single follow-up call. A vague one sits while we chase the answers.

None of this requires a CAD seat or a drafting background. A hand sketch with honest numbers on it works fine, and so does a marked-up photo. The point is to get the custom sheet metal fabrication defined once, so the quote is real and the fabricated piece comes out right the first time. Send it over and we will tell you what, if anything, we still need to lock it down.

U Design is a fabrication shop, not an install crew. We build the part, finish it, and hand it off. Your crew sets it. That is the whole arrangement, and it is what lets a part ship without waiting on a single installer's calendar.

Finished parts are ready for pickup at the shop in East Orange, and we deliver within roughly 150 miles of it. That radius covers Essex, Hudson, Union, and Bergen counties and reaches well past them, so a job an hour or two out is still in range. For a long run, on-site forming brings the brake to the jobsite instead, and the run comes off the machine at full length.

The shop runs in English and Portuguese. Send a drawing in either one and talk the details through in whichever is easier for you. The shop has read sketches in both languages since 2014, so nothing gets lost between the drawing and the finished piece.