Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

Install ridge slates and flashings in the same manner as installing slate hips except ridge joints should be caulked.

Mitred hips slate roofs.

Timber shingle shake roofs. Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm. Nail the vent material to the furring strips.

You will need longer nails when installing ridge slates over vent material. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. Quality slate roofs in sydney.

The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face. 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. 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. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing. The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e.

This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. In this case 2 5 inch copper roofing nails were used. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny.