Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

You will need longer nails when installing ridge slates over vent material.

Mitred hips slate roofs.

Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. Timber shingle shake roofs. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm.

We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face. Nail the vent material to the furring strips.

Install ridge slates and flashings in the same manner as installing slate hips except ridge joints should be caulked. A mitered hip is when the last field slate on either side is miter cut to form the hip. The miter cuts create a smooth transition with no pronounced hip cap. This is a demonstration conducted at the 2015 srca conference near grove city pa by chris short and dave armstrong of short slate llc.

Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. If this detail is used on adjoining surfaces of different pitches the courses will not line up. In exposed conditions and for roof pitches below 30º mitred hips are not recommended. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions.

Quality slate roofs in sydney. For this reason mitered hips are not recommended where two roofs surfaces of different pitches meet at the hip. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny.