10. May 2012 14:09

The Colour of Antique Copper



Over a period of many years copper will oxidise, the predominant colour is green.

Depending on the location and direction that the item is facing will alter the colour that the item will eventually take.

Many roof top ventilators, one is shown below will go a lovely all over green colour, these would of been fitted to the top of old Victorian buildings and open to the elements


                                                                    4ft tall roof top ventilator



Copper boilers that have been indoors will go a dark copper colour, but once they are put outside and used as garden planters they too take on varying degrees of 'greenness' depending on their position and time of exposure to the elements


Shown below is the ventilator alongside a few of our garden planters






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