Pitched Roof To Flat Roof Transition

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.

Pitched roof to flat roof transition.

The piece that allows us to join the two different slopes is the pitch transition trim. At the roof transition shown in photo roofers had installed peel and stick over the epdm lap. A roof that falls one inch over 12 inches is called a 1 and 12 and would be considered low slope. Various styles of a pitched roof can be built or you can purchase pre manufactured trusses.

I used flat roof in the title because i felt this was common usage. Flat roof connected to pitch roof. They had the right idea but the peel and stick they used was rubberized asphalt which reacts with epdm. It has a slope of 2 3.

We re going to install it over top of the panels that have already been installed on the lower slope. Armourvalley or other materials like epdm pvc or tpo covering. Most people view pitching a flat roof as a tedious job. The flat roof already has a slight pitch as it is required by law.

A flat roof isn t actually flat. A low slope roof. The process for converting a flat roof into a pitched roof depends on your individual structure and your individual needs there is no one size fits all option. So it would be more accurate to consider a sloped roof v s.

You will need to ensure that you are in standards with your local building codes and have the permits required. How to measure a roof slope. This allows water to flow off the upper panels out over the trim onto the lower panels and exits the roof at the eaves. It appears to be flat but it needs a slope to allow the water to drain from the roof.

Instead the roof must be done with a modified bituminous membrane e g. There are a few ways to dealing with a pitched roof if you choose to convert to a flat roof. They also didn t overlap the two membranes enough so it wouldn t have been long before a significant leak developed along the entire length of. For slopes less than 9 5 we cannot install roof shingles.

The standard way to measure a roof s pitch is by its fall over 12 inches.