Mitred Hips Roof

Extreme care is needed to achieve a neat finish at the hip.

Mitred hips roof.

These are 3 4 inch furring strips being used for standard thickness 3 16 inch to 1 4 inch slates. Quality slate roofs in sydney. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length.

Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. Provides a neat and attractive finish to the hip line. Furring strips were nailed to roof with 2 5 inch hot dipped galvanized common nails. The wood strips should be approximately 3 times the thickness of the slates.

Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny. Timber shingle shake roofs. 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.

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. Install furring strips along hip before slating roof. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing. Cambrian mitred hip system.

Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. 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.