Flat Roof Parapet Coping Details

Expansion joint roof to wall paraguard expansion joint roof to wall wall with self terminating parapro flashing.

Flat roof parapet coping details.

Hold your cursor over the file name to view when a drawing was last updated. Parapet with plywood sheathing. The width of the coping the weight and the location of expansion joints can all be determined by utilizing table 10b. 100 dan road canton ma 02021 phone 1 800 451 2504 sales 1 800 576 2358.

Concealed 8 wide splice plates include sealant strips to produce a watertight seal at the joints while allowing for proper thermal movement. Normally you would find the venting at the soffit the underside of the roof overhang. Some plain parapets come with an added coping or corbel to help bear structural load but most of them are simply flat extensions of the wall below the roof. At the highest point of the sloped roof the parapet is about 10 tall at the lowest point the parapet is about 14 tall.

Wall with self terminating paraflex 531 liquid flashing. Cold rolled copper is specified as a flat coping cover on an 8 thick parapet wall. The superior engineering of pac tite coping ensures an aesthetically pleasing high performance installation. Collection by alex radford foster.

Nov 30 2014 explore alex radford foster s board. For example assume 20 oz. The parapet itself is standard wood framing with an applied siding in this case t g 1 4 cedar. Parapet with paraguard coping.

The assembly is straight forward but what complicates matters is that the roof needs to be vented. Firestone has developed cad drawings of its tpo installation details to assist roofing professionals with the specification of firestone tpo roofing systems. Lightning protection system roof mounted paratread. The detail drawings are grouped by details and can be downloaded below in dwg or pdf format.

The copper coping is bent down 4 on both sides of the wall at an angle of 90 degrees. An embattled parapet is an older kind of parapet which isn t really used today in modern buildings but can still be seen in many older buildings. Like any roof with batt insulation the venting is an important part of the system. Nov 30 2014 explore alex radford foster s board.

Courtesy of max baker and the national research council of canada. If you didn t get it right you concentrated the stresses at roof edges and you could suck in a parapet or tear or rip a membrane at the parapet photographs 3 and 4.