Flat Roof Parapet Coping Details

Parapet with paraguard coping.

Flat roof parapet coping details.

Like any roof with batt insulation the venting is an important part of the system. 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. Nov 30 2014 explore alex radford foster s board. The detail drawings are grouped by details and can be downloaded below in dwg or pdf format.

Roof membrane temperatures ottawa canada summer day. Hold your cursor over the file name to view when a drawing was last updated. Nov 30 2014 explore alex radford foster s board. Expansion joint roof to wall paraguard expansion joint roof to wall wall with self terminating parapro flashing.

Lightning protection system roof mounted paratread. At the highest point of the sloped roof the parapet is about 10 tall at the lowest point the parapet is about 14 tall. 100 dan road canton ma 02021 phone 1 800 451 2504 sales 1 800 576 2358. For example assume 20 oz.

Firestone has developed cad drawings of its tpo installation details to assist roofing professionals with the specification of firestone tpo roofing systems. The superior engineering of pac tite coping ensures an aesthetically pleasing high performance installation. Curb with adhesive. Courtesy of max baker and the national research council of canada.

The assembly is straight forward but what complicates matters is that the roof needs to be vented. 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. 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. The copper coping is bent down 4 on both sides of the wall at an angle of 90 degrees.

Cold rolled copper is specified as a flat coping cover on an 8 thick parapet wall. Wall with self terminating paraflex 531 liquid flashing. Parapet with plywood sheathing. Pac tite coping also offers design flexibility capable of accommodating wall widths up to 32.

Collection by alex radford foster. The parapet itself is standard wood framing with an applied siding in this case t g 1 4 cedar.