Spaced or skip decking many older homes in older.
Plank decking roof.
Solid sheathing most new homes built after the mid to late 80 s typically have solid roof sheathing.
Please inspect and provide a determination of whether the 1 x8 decking complies with building code for solid decking.
Plank decking in older homes plank decking may have been used for the roof decking substrate.
On older homes planks were often spaced for wood or slate roofs with wider exposures than the standard 5 inch tab on asphalt shingles.
They can be of several configurations.
Further laid flat as a roof deck instead of oriented vertically as trusses are design values are lowered while at the same time the additional material involved in a solid deck adds to the roof s strength.
There are three types of wood roof decks.
Product evaluation code report 14076 assembly evaluation code.
The insured s contractor contends the decking does not meet code and must be removed and replaced if the roof is replaced.
Structural panels concrete roof deck is an innovative technology designed to provide a structural roof sheathing without the need for thermal barriers pouring setting or curing which resolves the latent moisture issue commonly found in roofing with poured concrete.
The roof decking is 1 x 8 1 8 planks.
Tongue and groove plywood or osb sheathing plank sheathing.
As a result at least one but often many of the shingle nailing lines end up falling smack between boards or so close to the edge that the nails lack holding power.