Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

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Mitred hips slate roofs.

Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm. 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. For this reason mitered hips are not recommended where two roofs surfaces of different pitches meet at the hip. Quality slate roofs in sydney. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles.

This is a demonstration conducted at the 2015 srca conference near grove city pa by chris short and dave armstrong of short slate llc. Nail the vent material to the furring strips. The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip.

A mitered hip is when the last field slate on either side is miter cut to form the hip. In this case 2 5 inch copper roofing nails were used. The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face. The miter cuts create a smooth transition with no pronounced hip cap.

Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing. Timber shingle shake roofs.