Scottish Roof Construction

If you want to add to your roof but it does not meet the conditions for permitted development you have to apply.

Scottish roof construction.

Building standards technical handbook 2019. 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. Recent research supports scottish slate s reputation as a long lasting material. Emerging research hanke 2006 newland 2010 crone and mills 2012 has started to.

Discussion in roofing and guttering started by luxmore100 23 jun 2013. Many slates are in service for 150 years or more. Scottish roof structures seem to have been a neglected area within the construction history studies. The building standards technical handbooks provide guidance on achieving the standards set in the building scotland regulations 2004.

Slate has been used for this purpose for centuries. The term sarking can have a number of different meanings relating to roof construction. Hi any help would be appreciated i have just bought an old croft house in the highlands of scotland. The roof is fibre cement slates nailed directly onto sarking boards.

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. Often slate outlasts other elements of a building. 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. It is particularly well known for its use as a roof covering on many traditional scottish buildings.

For more information on what is considered a permitted development when adding to your roof read the scottish government s guidance on householder permitted development rights publication and go to section 4 42. 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. Sarking in roof constructions designing buildings wiki share your construction industry knowledge.