Roofs With No Overhang

We will protect shade the west windows with cedar awnings grates.

Roofs with no overhang.

I was hoping you would discuss applying roof overhangs to a persist style home that is intentionally built with no overhangs to simplify the installation of control layers. There is no good way to make that last. I have two questions. Steeper pitched metal roofs typically do not require much overhang because snow and ice slides off the smooth surface so easily.

The eaves are the part of the roof that hangs over the walls of the house. The roof is sheathed with a single layer of 1 2 in. Roof edge detail overhang extended to hide the thickness of the over roofing rigid insulation. No roof leaks no problems.

We love the look of the no overhang scottish style roof line as well. Plywood over the existing layer to strengthen the roof before shingling. Figure 8 24a shows a detail with no overhang care being. With our house we are planning minimal east and west overhangs and ample south and north overhangs.

There is also no gutter in the detail so you will be effectively routing rain down your wall. A great example of great wide eaves are the homes of frank lloyd wright. He loved big eaves. The traditional large overhang associated with most thatched roofs provided excellent protection to the heads of doors and windows below.

Soffits are the underside of the eaves. So if you have shallow eaves with a flat soffit you have a very small overhang that has a flat bottom. Particularly i m curious how to build well supported ladders for the rake overhangs but it would be great to have some general comments on the challenges to building good. First can i add a second layer of 1 2 in.

1 to effectively close off the space between the rafter feet. Installed a new fully adhered membrane to the top of the old board sheathing prior to adding all that rigid insulation. No air leaks from underneath no problems. With the west east overhangs the main use is siding window protection and keeping rain snow from foundation.

Smart vent a special roof eaves vent product that provides a 3 4 opening about 6 above the top of the roof drip edge. Plywood and has no overhangs and hence no eaves for ventilation. I can understand not wanting one with a flat roof but the sloped roof without overhang i never understood. I m reroofing a small roof with a 6 in 12 pitch.

Low slope roofs are more subject to snow load damage than steeper pitches and so typically have little or no unsupported overhang which can bend.