Pitched Roof To Flat Roof Conversion

Flat roofs also don t last as long.

Pitched roof to flat roof conversion.

There are a few ways to dealing with a pitched roof if you choose to convert to a flat roof. You either have to raise the height of the eaves or lower the height of the ridge. There are all sorts of things you have to take into consideration depending on where the building is. Pitched roofs have about a 40 longer life than flat roofs.

They last 25 50 years while a flat roof membrane will last about 15 20 years. There are several ways to convert a flat roof to pitched. Either way your home s existing design may interfere or affect the changes you can make. However flat roofs require much more aggressive and consistent maintenance than a pitched roof.

The typical way is to remove the existing roof and add new framing to the home that create a pitched roof over the old flat roof area. This is because the membrane is more expensive to manufacture as well as the need for more specialized labor. It is a significant renovation if you are converting from flat to pitched. This has to happen whether you re just removing the pitched roof or adding another floor with a flat roof.

On houses new pitched roofs typically are supported by the exterior walls as with standard sloped roof construction. A pitched roof is more expensive. Realistically speaking to do it right would involve a complete tear off of the roof structure then a re engineering and rebuild of the new flat roof.