Mitred Hips Roof

This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings.

Mitred hips roof.

Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. Cambrian mitred hip system. To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length. Timber shingle shake roofs.

Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. Importantly though you must add the thickness of the ridge back on to that measurement so we can use the same common rafters already measured we ve removed the 50mm purple ridge from above so need to now add 50mm on to the new longer ridge. Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. These are 3 4 inch furring strips being used for standard thickness 3 16 inch to 1 4 inch slates.

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. Hip roofs or so called hipped roofs are a special type of roof that has a very gentle slope at the sides with a downward pattern towards the side walls. Provides a neat and attractive finish to the hip line. Extreme care is needed to achieve a neat finish at the hip.

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. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Quality slate roofs in sydney. We work both locally and nationally on specialty slate roofing.

Mitred hips other services you might be interested in. Furring strips were nailed to roof with 2 5 inch hot dipped galvanized common nails. 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.