Slate Roof Hip Detail

The bellaforté slate field tiles must be laid from left to right.

Slate roof hip detail.

Download this free 2d cad block of a typical slate mitred hip detail including full annotations and dimensions. The 10 inch step flashings then overlap each other by 2 inches. 2 finish slating as close to timber roll as possible. The 16 inch long hip slates are overlapped 8 inches halfway by both the overlying slates and the flashings.

Install the slates in pairs not one side at a time. The slate nearest the hip slate must remain a full slate. There are many ways to construct copper ridge and hip flashings. In general the long dimension of a saddle hip slate should be approximately twice the exposure of the field slates.

This autocad detail can be used in your roof design cad drawings. 3 cover the timber roll with code 6 lead strips 450 to 500 mm wide and 1 5 to 1 8 m long. Most hip installations involve the weaving of copper flashing sheets between roofing shingles. The ridge flashings form a cover over the roofing material.

A saddle hip is when the cap slate is installed over the finished slate roof on either side creating a saddle effect. Fixing sequence with lead roll hip 1 fix 600 mm wide underlay overlapping the main underlay. The outside edge of the tile will be covered by a rake tile on a gable end or a hip and ridge tile on a hip so precise cutting is not necessary. The size of the slates depends on the field slate size.

The anchoring methods vary. They are the most common hip detail used for slate roofing. Cad details document name pdf dwg download all cad construction details 37 1 mb 3 4 mb mc01 identification of roof areas 694 kb 167 kb mc01a single layer underlayment 678 kb 302 kb mc01b double layer underlayment 711 kb 322 kb mc02 vent pipe flashing 626 kb 349 kb mc03 valley. Continue up the hip in this manner flashing over the top of each pair of hip slates.