Low Pitch Roof Covering Options

Flintlastic sa products feature easy and clean application and also have granulated surfaces with colors that coordinate with certainteed shingles providing the homeowner with a complete and coordinated solution for roof designs that transition from steep to low slope.

Low pitch roof covering options.

Made of several layers of bitumen surfaces built up roofing is finished by applying an aggregate layer or coating as the top layer. Iko roof fast 95 base is a self adhesive product that can easily be cold applied on low slope roofs. Slopes above 19 12 are not recommended since tiles on very steep roofs can rattle. 4 12 to 20 12 pitches.

Clay or cement tiles can be used on a wide range of roof pitches. Low slope metal roofs have been a preferred roof covering for commercial institutional and industrial buildings for years because of their ability to protect against the elements to allow water to drain away from the roof surface and to keep building contents and occupants dry and comfortable. But the taller profiles like standing seam and pbr shown below can be installed on roofs with as low as 1 4 or 1 2 in 12 pitch. For the smaller residential low slope roofing applications such as garage and porch transitions certainteed offers an excellent solution in our flintlastic sa self adhering sbs modified bitumen roofing system.

1 cover the entire surface with a self adhesive flashing membrane such as grace ice water shield there are many. For pitches of 2 5 12 up to 4 12 the roof requires double underlayment. For a roof recover that is keeping the low slope structure a roofer may add tapered insulation and then a new roof covering of epdm or other roofing material. But in some climates such as areas of deep snow cover the property owner may prefer to convert to a more steeply sloped roof structure a procedure we describe at low slope roof conversion 3 4 5.

For a low slope residential roof there are two main options. 2 where the roof is not visible consider upgrading to a single ply roofing intended for low slope roofs. It s constructed of a durable reinforcing mat of non woven glass fibers that have been coated and permeated to a thickness of approximately 2 0 mm.