Joining Flat Roof To Pitched Roof

This video will demonstrate how to integrate a cure it grp roof with a pitched roof.

Joining flat roof to pitched roof.

Joining different flat roofs. It has a slope of 2 3. Additional valleys angles and gables can be built into converted roofs as well but adding these elements may affect your project. For slopes less than 9 5 we cannot install roof shingles.

One is getting the two differently pitched planes to meet at the hip or valley rafter. Instead the roof must be done with a modified bituminous membrane e g. After this roofing cement is applied around the complete area and then the missing tiles are replaced. If you own a building with a flat roof the first thing your contractor will do is consult a structural engineer to make sure your structure can handle the conversion.

We ll start with the knowledge that the main roof has an 8 12 pitch. Lets have a quick look at how to join a roof without an upstand where practical joining onto roofing felt with epdm roofing felt is bitumen based and it can be difficult to get any sort of good bond onto bitumen with anything other than a like for like bitumen product. Pitched roofs are usually much heavier than flat roofs so an easy replacement may not always be possible. Flat roof connected to pitch roof.

Armourvalley or other materials like epdm pvc or tpo covering. Flashing and more roofing compound are used to weatherproof the joint. It appears to be flat but it needs a slope to allow the water to drain from the roof. A flat roof isn t actually flat.

This latest project was in early december in lambeth ontario for a residential home that had an existing sloped or shingled roof that needed to tie into a ne. The other is to get the fascias to line up. First we should establish the pitch of both roof planes. Joining these two roofs poses two main challenges.