Hip Irons Roofs

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Hip irons roofs.

Hip irons are also useful as a safety feature to prevent hip tiles from slipping when the fixing mortar cracks or fails. Our hot dipped galvanised roof hip irons. You will find iron architectural ironwork in traditional victorian georgian and tudor style designs that are often chosen for historic restoration projects. Home pitched roofing ridge hip tiles concrete ridge hip tiles galvanized large hip iron 300mm x 150mm x 25mm x 3mm.

Depending on the size of the roof most hip roofs will have 4 6 short jack rafters that are spaced out every 20 inches 51 cm between the hip rafters and the king common rafters. Hip irons are a retaining bracket with decorative scroll design used to prevent ridge tile movement on hip roofs. My apprentice bedding concrete 1 3 round hip tiles. Traditionally roof hip irons were used to hold the eaves hip tile in place while the fixing mortar was drying.

Nail the jack rafters to the hip rafters and secure them to the walls. Lay hip tiles by continuously bedding at edges and solidly bedding with tile slips inserted into mortar at joints between hip tiles. European standard bs en 5534 requires all ridge tiles including ridge tiles used down the hips to be mechanically fixed. A steel retaining bracket with decorative scroll design used to prevent ridge tile movement on hip roofs.

Are used to prevent eaves hip tiles from falling off the roof. Http www fixmyroof co uk this is an introduction into how to relay or rebed roof ridge tiles. The very first job will be removing the old ridges without br. Fix hip iron to hip rafter or hip batten with galvanised steel screws.