Scottish Roof Construction

Discussion in roofing and guttering started by luxmore100 23 jun 2013.

Scottish roof construction.

Hi any help would be appreciated i have just bought an old croft house in the highlands of scotland. Boarded or sarked roof construction with breather membrane fully supported by plywood or t g boards scottish practice impose no wind uplift conditions on the roofing underlay and as a consequence the underlay selected by the specifier is not subject to the wind uplift pressure zonal classification requirements of a bs5534 code of. It is particularly well known for its use as a roof covering on many traditional scottish buildings. Scottish roof structures seem to have been a neglected area within the construction history studies.

Recent research supports scottish slate s reputation as a long lasting material. Slate has been used for this purpose for centuries. Often slate outlasts other elements of a building. 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.

The roof is fibre cement slates nailed directly onto sarking boards. 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. The building standards technical handbooks provide guidance on achieving the standards set in the building scotland regulations 2004. 23 jun 2013 messages.

Sarking in roof constructions designing buildings wiki share your construction industry knowledge. Nfrc scotland also delivers a series of continuous professional development sessions with client groups and specifiers to promote best practice across all roofing disciplines. The term sarking can have a number of different meanings relating to roof construction. Building standards technical handbook 2019.

Video sharing camera phone video phone free upload. If you want to add to your roof but it does not meet the conditions for permitted development you have to apply. Nfrc scotland rewards achievements and celebrates the success of the scottish roofing industry by running the nfrc scottish roofing contractor of the year awards and.