Kevin Pipes, president and CEO at Smoky Mountain Knife Works, Sevierville, Tenn., chose 60,000 square feet of 24-gauge, 16-inch-wide roof panels in Pacific Blue from Perth Amboy, N.J.-based Englert Inc. for the store. “We love the new roof and the job the roofer did installing it,” Pipes says.
The old roofing material was covered with a Lutz, Fla.-based Roof Hugger metal-over-metal roofing system to eliminate the need to remove old roofing materials and interrupt the retail business. The structure’s existing older R Panel roof was replaced with an Englert Series 2500 2-inch mechanically seamed metal roof system, completed in August 2013. The Armco-style metal roofing panel was designed as a structural metal roof. The S2500 system has an interlock clip that secured the metal roof panels and allowed for thermal expansion and contraction.
Greg Julian, owner of Julian Sheet Metal, Sevierville, and Tim Lombardi, project manager at Julian Sheet Metal, say it was easy to install Roof Hugger, and lifting Englert’s Multi Panel Rollforming Machine to the roof to run and install panel increased efficiency.
Smoky Mountain Knife Works encloses a 55,000-square-foot showroom with thousands of cutlery products, collections of Native American and Civil War items and a museum with cutlery memorabilia and trophy wildlife. The company’s collectibles department specializes in vintage and collectible knives, purchases knife collections and markets them in the showroom by private sale and online.
Englert Inc., www.englertinc.com
Roof Hugger, www.roofhugger.com
