There is only skip sheathing present.
Skip sheathing metal roof.
The easiest way to do this is to have solid sheathing with taped seams that s your air barrier covered with roofing underlayment.
After you strip the roof do spot repairs to the existing sheathing where needed then go right over it.
Sheathing with gaps between.
The underlayment is very important.
As well as all valley s.
Installing wood stripping under a tin roof.
Panel or tile system.
Grace ice and water shield or titanium udl50 is recommended along the eave up to 3 0 beyond the inside of the exterior wall.
The rest of the roof would be covered with titanium psu30 or something similar.
The time saved in humping edless 4x8 sheets up onto the roof nailing them off and creating staging areas to work from is b huge as you install the strapping purlins at 24 oc you are creating a.
The roofing is manufactured in panels that.
On metal frame building and the like you will likely see structural metal roofing installed on purlins that is what those 1x4 are purlins and those metal roofing panels are rated for that type of installation.
Most you see on homes and many commercial building is non structural metal roofing and needs to be on solid sheathing.
Design depends on type of metal roof.
The tile roof system leaks like a seive the metal roof contractors are proposing laying the 30 felt paper directly over the skip sheathing.
Lets pretend the roof design details are conventional and so the roof deck sheathing will be 5 8 to 3 4.
Many metal roofing dealers specify minimum of 7 16 sheathing.
Board and batten pan and ridge panels.
Installing over skip sheathing is fine.
You ll want to use both longer sheathing nails and longer roofing nails.
Tin roofing also known as metal roofing is considered more durable than composition or wood shingles.
I am having a stone coated metal roof installed on my house that has a tile roof.
Next purlins parallel to the eaves and then roofing.
Most formed metal roofing the type that imitates wood slate or clay comes with a built in thermal break that insulates against heat passing to the roof deck below.
Skip sheeting or spaced sheathing is just as it sounds.
Under your metal roofing you need roofing underlayment to catch the dripping condensation.
Exposed or hidden fasteners.
Traditionally skip sheathing consists of 1 inch by 4 inch boards nailed to the rafters with gaps between the boards.
And unlike asphalt slate or clay roofs that hold onto solar heat after the sun goes down metal quickly releases its heat back into the atmosphere.
First of all thanks for selecting a metal roof.
On top of your insulation you need an air barrier.
The entire roof deck is relatively uniform where you can step on any part of it without slipping through spaces.
Osb or plywood over skip sheathing makes for a much stiffer roof deck resists problems with expansion better and obviously doesn t require all the hassle of removing it.