Mitred Hips Slate Roofs

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

Mitred hips slate roofs.

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

Verrone roofing is an industry leading specialty slate roofing contractor based in fairfield county ct and westchester county ny. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm. Mitred hips other services you might be interested in.

Install ridge slates and flashings in the same manner as installing slate hips except ridge joints should be caulked. Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. 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.

In this case 2 5 inch copper roofing nails were used. The mitred hip cut should be formed in the reverse way to normal dressing i e. For this reason mitered hips are not recommended where two roofs surfaces of different pitches meet at the hip. In exposed conditions and for roof pitches below 30º mitred hips are not recommended.

If this detail is used on adjoining surfaces of different pitches the courses will not line up. The miter cuts create a smooth transition with no pronounced hip cap. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. A mitered hip is when the last field slate on either side is miter cut to form the hip.