Mitred Hips Roof

Here the mansard roofs as well as half hipped roofs are small variations of simple hip roofs.

Mitred hips roof.

If the soakers are head nailed they can be reduced by 25mm. Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. Fix soakers by turning down over heads of mitred tiles. The hips are in red common rafters yellow and for hips to work on a square roof like above each member is equal.

Proudly a member of the master roof tilers slaters association and the roofing industry association of nsw. Hip roofs are more frequently used in advanced architectures most probably for bungalows cottages and ranch homes. Every common rafter is the same length brown and each hip rafter is the same length too red. At a mitred hip water will run away from the hip line therefore very little water should get onto the soaker so as with a side abutment the horizontal side lap only needs to be 100mm at 35º and above and for slates below 35º 150mm.

Autocad 2000 dwg format for further information on slate roof details and d. This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. Interleave mitred tiles with metal soakers extending a minimum 100mm to each side of hip. Cut tile and a half tiles and fix to form a straight weathertight close mitred junction.

These are 3 4 inch furring strips being used for standard thickness 3 16 inch to 1 4 inch slates. Install furring strips along hip before slating roof. If this detail is used on adjoining surfaces of different pitches the courses will not line up. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm.

Some other names for hip roofs are pyramid roof and pavilion roofs.