Scottish Roof Construction Details

A detailed visual overview of the range of roofing materials and techniques that are to be found in scotland.

Scottish roof construction details. This research report ties the geological properties of slate to its usability as a roofing material. Information on our scottish handbook the details available. The top of the rafter is cut at an angle and nailed to the ridge board typically 175mmx32mm 7x21 2 inch mounted vertically. A sealed roof system is achievable using a vapour permeable underlay such as monarperm 700 if a minimum 2mm gap can be guaranteed between the sarking boards which should be a minimum of 150mm wide.

The top edge of the pans are folded out to the height of the standing or batten seam then bent down 3 4. Building planning and design. Roof slating tiling. Top of mansard roof coping cover this detail shows a condition where the top of the mansard meets a coping cover.

Local government and communities directorate part of. Guidance and one method to meet some of the requirements of the functional standards set out in regulation 9 of the building scotland regulations. These include features such as diminishing courses random lengths and widths of slate single nailing and laying onto sarking board rather than battens figure 1. Scottish slate roofs have a number of characteristics which make them well suited to both the local climate and the nature of the material produced by slate quarries in scotland.

Construction details for typical mansard roofs are shown in figure 6. 2 10 ground bearing floor slab. Government accredited details developed by bre for local government search. The updated detail sets do not supersede previous versions but reflect the likely changes to scottish construction practices which meet or improve upon the design u value for walls floors and ceilings cited in the fuel package table of section 6 1 of the technical handbooks.

Accredited construction details scotland 2007 directorate. Wall ground floor junction. Typically a scottish practice the roofing underlay is laid directly over a series of sarking boards fixed to the roof rafters with the roof slates nailed directly to the sarking boards.