Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

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Mitred hips slate roofs. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. In exposed conditions and for roof pitches below 30º mitred hips are not recommended. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles.

Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm. Nail the vent material to the furring strips. This is a demonstration conducted at the 2015 srca conference near grove city pa by chris short and dave armstrong of short slate llc.

The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. The cut should be made with the slate face uppermost thus giving a straight edge to the hip cut on the slate face. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing.

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. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. The miter cuts create a smooth transition with no pronounced hip cap.

Install ridge slates and flashings in the same manner as installing slate hips except ridge joints should be caulked. Quality slate roofs in sydney. You will need longer nails when installing ridge slates over vent material. Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny.