Goss's Roofing Ready Reckoner: From Timberwork to Tiles

Goss’s Roofing Ready Reckoner provides cutting angle and lengths for traditional ‘cut’ roofs and design tables for timber sizing, based on BS5268 ‘Structural use of timber’ and now including a comparison of timber sizes using Eurocode 5 ‘Design of Timber Structures’. Additional information is provided on wall plate and gable strapping, wind bracing, truss clips and other roofing metalwork, plus information on tools, equipment and health and safety matters. Detailed drawings for tiling, slating and other roof coverings are included, with fixing requirements revised to BS 5534:2014. Information on lead substitutes and roofing putties is also provided. Design of warm and cold roofs is fully covered, including ventilation and insulation requirements. The fifth edition also includes new chapters on engineered timber roofing components, solar panel fixing and outbuilding roofs.

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Asphalt shingles; Attic Roofs; Battens; BS 5534:2014; BS5268; Building regulation requirements for roofs; Calculating the length and cutting angles of timber roof members; Calculating the size of timber members for roof construction; Cold roofs; Concrete interlocking tiles; Condensation control in roofs; Crane-on roofs; cut roofs; cutting angles for roof construction; cutting lengths for roof construction; Design of Timber Structures; design tables for roof construction; dormers; dry fixed ridge; dry methods of fixing hips, valleys and ridges; Engineered timber roofing components; Eurocode 5; fixing requirements for roofs; gable strapping for roofs; Hip jack rafters; Hip rafters; Lead substitutes for flashings; Metal tiles; Natural slates; openings for dormers; outbuilding roofs; peg tiles; Plain tiles; prefabricated roofs; Purlins; renovation of existing roof structures; Restoration of existing roof structures; Roof Coverings; Roof Insulation; Roof tile fixing; Roof Tiles; roof tiling; roof truss clips; Roof wind bracing; roof windows; Roofing Battens; roofing metalwork; Roofing metalwork fixings; roofing putties; Roofing terminology; Roofing Underlay; Sheds roofs; SIPS (Structural Insulated Panel Systems); slate fixing; slating; Solar panel fixing; Solar Panel fixings to roof structure; Spandrel panels; Strength and section size calculations for roof construction; structural panels; Structural use of timber; Thermal performance of roofs; Timber member sizing design for roof construction; timber sizing for roof construction; Traditional fixing of hips, valleys and ridges; traditional roof; Trussed rafters; Valley jack rafter; wall plate for roofs; warm roofs