Scottish Roof Construction

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.

Scottish roof construction.

The term sarking can have a number of different meanings relating to roof construction. 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 roof is fibre cement slates nailed directly onto sarking boards. Slate has been used for this purpose for centuries.

Often slate outlasts other elements of a building. Building standards technical handbook 2019. Video sharing camera phone video phone free upload. The building standards technical handbooks provide guidance on achieving the standards set in the building scotland regulations 2004.

Emerging research hanke 2006 newland 2010 crone and mills 2012 has started to. 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. 23 jun 2013 messages. Recent research supports scottish slate s reputation as a long lasting material.

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. Hi any help would be appreciated i have just bought an old croft house in the highlands of scotland. Sarking in roof constructions designing buildings wiki share your construction industry knowledge. 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.

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. Many slates are in service for 150 years or more. Discussion in roofing and guttering started by luxmore100 23 jun 2013.