Roofs With No Overhang

I can understand not wanting one with a flat roof but the sloped roof without overhang i never understood.

Roofs with no overhang.

I have two questions. The eaves are the part of the roof that hangs over the walls of the house. 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. Plywood and has no overhangs and hence no eaves for ventilation.

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. The traditional large overhang associated with most thatched roofs provided excellent protection to the heads of doors and windows below. First can i add a second layer of 1 2 in. No roof leaks no problems.

Installed a new fully adhered membrane to the top of the old board sheathing prior to adding all that rigid insulation. Martin and jon are right that a roof overhang is the best way to protect the siding. I m reroofing a small roof with a 6 in 12 pitch. A great example of great wide eaves are the homes of frank lloyd wright.

1 to effectively close off the space between the rafter feet. 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. He loved big eaves. No air leaks from underneath no problems.

The roof is sheathed with a single layer of 1 2 in. We will protect shade the west windows with cedar awnings grates. Plywood over the existing layer to strengthen the roof before shingling. So if you have shallow eaves with a flat soffit you have a very small overhang that has a flat bottom.

Roof edge detail overhang extended to hide the thickness of the over roofing rigid insulation. With the west east overhangs the main use is siding window protection and keeping rain snow from foundation. There is also no gutter in the detail so you will be effectively routing rain down your wall. Figure 8 24a shows a detail with no overhang care being.

Venting solutions for roofs with no overhang or soffit install special roof intake venting products that work at the lower edge of the roof decking underneath the first course of shingles. Steeper pitched metal roofs typically do not require much overhang because snow and ice slides off the smooth surface so easily. There is no good way to make that last. The functions to be considered in the design of eaves are therefore as follows.

Soffits are the underside of the eaves.