Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

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Mitred hips slate roofs.

Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. The miter cuts create a smooth transition with no pronounced hip cap. Timber shingle shake roofs.

The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e. In exposed conditions and for roof pitches below 30º mitred hips are not recommended. Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. For this reason mitered hips are not recommended where two roofs surfaces of different pitches meet at the hip.

Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny. Quality slate roofs in sydney. Install ridge slates and flashings in the same manner as installing slate hips except ridge joints should be caulked. If this detail is used on adjoining surfaces of different pitches the courses will not line up.

The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face. Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. In this case 2 5 inch copper roofing nails were used. Nail the vent material to the furring strips.

This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. A mitered hip is when the last field slate on either side is miter cut to form the hip. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions.