Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face.

Mitred hips slate roofs.

Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. 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. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings.

Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. 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. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm.

For this reason mitered hips are not recommended where two roofs surfaces of different pitches meet at the hip. You will need longer nails when installing ridge slates over vent material. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. Timber shingle shake roofs.

In this case 2 5 inch copper roofing nails were used. 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. The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e.

Quality slate roofs in sydney. A mitered hip is when the last field slate on either side is miter cut to form the hip. Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. If this detail is used on adjoining surfaces of different pitches the courses will not line up.