Seaming @museum.de

If you want to permanently join two or more metal sheets or profiles, there is a method that is as elegant as it is effective: seaming. This involves the edges of the sheets that are to be joined being turned up and then hooked into each other.

Folded joints, or seams, are found on both curved and straight sheet metal edges. Curved seams are found, for example, on the base of tin cans or on down pipes and curved rain pipes. Examples of straight seams are the typical joints on metal roofing sheets.

The first of our films shows you how to make the joint we just described. The second one illustrates how two roofing sheets can be joined using the seaming method. Roofing sheets are the individual lengths with pre-existing profiles that together form the roof covering.

And a well-made seam is strong, durable and rainproof – provided, of course, that you know what you're doing.