Plank Decking For Roof

Tongue and groove plywood or osb sheathing plank sheathing.

Plank decking for roof.

No expensive or complex substructure of steel beams or other crisscrossing bearers is required. There are three types of wood roof decks. Even if we filter it down to board sheathing only there can be square edges shiplap edges spaced decking and the ordinary tongue and groove that profile was explored in part ii of this series. You can construct a traditional wood plank deck on rooftops plazas terraces and garage roofs with much less work and substantially lower cost with the eterno pedestal system for wood decks.

They can be of several configurations. Spaced or skip decking many older homes in older. The standard nominal width of the decking is 6 and 8. Plank decking in older homes plank decking may have been used for the roof decking substrate.

The only cementitious structural panel approved by factory mutual fm fm approval standard 4472. Solid sheathing most new homes built after the mid to late 80 s typically have solid roof sheathing. Wood plank decks being found in low sloped pitched and even curved surfaces can take many forms. We can supply decking in standard nominal depths of 2 3 4 and 5.

Wood plank roof decks with pedestal supported wood bearers.