Warm Roof Construction Kingspan

We have a wide range of roof insulation products including flat roof insulation tapered insulation and pitched roof loft insulation.

Warm roof construction kingspan.

Warm roof fixings connect coun ter battens to rafters without compressing the layer of insulation in between. One if the benefits of a thermally efficient warm roof is the transfer of a building s dew point to the outside. The product is manufactured with a blowing agent that has zero ozone depletion potential odp and low global warming potential gwp. They are perfect for securing celotex kingspan eco therm insulation above rafters in the construction of warm roofs the helical fixings rotate as they are driven in corkscrewing into wood to prevent spliting or bouncing of the timbers.

It is recommended that the minimum fall for a flat roof is 1 in 80 which will allow water to drain easily. Again the roofs can be of a warm or cold construction. Flat roofs often use tapered insulation on a completely flat deck or have a fall built into the deck in the concrete via a screed to provide the fall. Others would treat even steeper pitches as flat roofs.

Kingspan thermaroof tr26 is a high performance insulation with a fibre free rigid thermoset polyisocyanurate pir core. Kingspan thermapitch tp10 warm roof insulation board 2400mm x 1200mm x 100mm 38 80 ex vat 46 56 inc vat kingspan kooltherm k7 insulation board 110mm x 2400mm x 1200mm pack of 3. The definition of a flat roof according to bs 6229 is having a pitch less than 10 o to the horizontal however some in the industry would consider up to 15 o as their definition of a flat roof. We also have insulation boards suitable for more specialist roof applications for example inverted roof insulation and balcony insulation.

Kingspan kooltherm k7 a premium performance phenolic insulation and thermapitch tp10 a high performance pir insulation are both fibre free rigid thermoset insulation which can be used to insulate warm. It is suitable for flat roofs waterproofed with mechanically fixed single ply waterproofing and has a thermal conductivity of 0 022 w mk. A flat roof where the insulation sits below the waterproof membrane and above the structural deck is a warm roof deck. Insulating a flat roof with kingspan thermaroof.

40mm kingspan thermapitch tp10 is the rafter level insulation comprising of a high performance rigid thermoset insulation core faced on both sides with a low emissivity composite foil facing. A warm roof is recognized as being the most suited form of roofing to the uk climate providing both a cost and thermal efficient solution. When building a flat roof it is vital that a degree of falls is built into the construction to ensure rainwater run off.