Mitred Hips Roof

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Mitred hips roof.

These are 3 4 inch furring strips being used for standard thickness 3 16 inch to 1 4 inch slates. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles.

Furring strips were nailed to roof with 2 5 inch hot dipped galvanized common nails. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Provides a neat and attractive finish to the hip line.

The cambrian mitred hip system has been specifically designed for use with cambrian slates to achieve a neat mitred hip detail whilst ensuring a high resistance to wind uplift over a wide range of rafter pitches and plan angles. Hip roofs or so called hipped roofs are a special type of roof that has a very gentle slope at the sides with a downward pattern towards the side walls. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny. Timber shingle shake roofs.

Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. Where possible it is advisable to use either bonnet hip tiles or specify specially made arris hip tiles to suit the particular roof pitch instead. Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. The area where one section of roof meets other section is considered as the hip and the hip roof generally has very uniform angles without any vertical end.

Cambrian mitred hip system. The wood strips should be approximately 3 times the thickness of the slates. Extreme care is needed to achieve a neat finish at the hip.