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    This document provides guidelines for designing roofs that will be waterproofed with mastic asphalt. It discusses several factors to consider when designing flat roofs and planters/roof gardens, including ensuring the base/deck is stable, dry, and free of irregularities before applying the asphalt. Access for regular inspection of flat roofs is also recommended. The substrate and details at edges/seams should be designed to accommodate thermal and structural movement.

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    This document provides guidelines for designing roofs that will be waterproofed with mastic asphalt. It discusses several factors to consider when designing flat roofs and planters/roof gardens, including ensuring the base/deck is stable, dry, and free of irregularities before applying the asphalt. Access for regular inspection of flat roofs is also recommended. The substrate and details at edges/seams should be designed to accommodate thermal and structural movement.

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    This document provides guidelines for designing roofs that will be waterproofed with mastic asphalt. It discusses several factors to consider when designing flat roofs and planters/roof gardens, including ensuring the base/deck is stable, dry, and free of irregularities before applying the asphalt. Access for regular inspection of flat roofs is also recommended. The substrate and details at edges/seams should be designed to accommodate thermal and structural movement.

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    Design of roof to be asphalted

    ROOFING
    GENERAL

    For each roof the designer should first determine the form (pitched or flat)
    and the type (cold deck, warm deck or inverted) before selecting the
    appropriate deck material, thermal insulation, and means of vapour control.

    The design of flat roofs intended to be covered by mastic asphalt


    waterproofing should conform to the recommendations of BS 6229:1982,
    with reference to CP 3 Chapter V and the Building Regulations where
    applicable.

    Walls for plant, planters and similar constructions should not be built off a
    mastic asphalt membrane. All such supports should be built directly off the
    structure, and subsequently waterproofed.

    The White Rose Centre - Leeds

    PLANTERS / ROOF GARDENS


    roofing
    Waterproofing should be applied horizontally and vertically to the inside and
    outside faces of planters. If it is only intended to provide a minimum
    150mm skirting to the outside face of planters, consideration should be
    given to the provision of damp-proof courses or cavity trays within the
    planter walls.

    Within planters, the mastic asphalt should be protected from backfilling and
    subsequent digging operations by concrete slabs, non biodegradable boards
    or similar means.

    ACCESS FOR INSPECTION

    To facilitate access for regular inspection (as recommended in BS 6229:1982)


    consideration should be given to provision of a fixed permanent access to all
    flat roofs. Such access will also be useful for maintenance and repair.

    5
    ROOFING DETAILS

    The general arrangement details and the principles to be followed at


    skirtings, upstands, abutments, verges, gutters and expansion joints are as
    ROOFING
    details illustrated.

    SELECTION PARAMETERS

    It is important that consideration is given at an early stage to the following:

    a) The type of roof construction to be employed


    b) How anticipated movement is to be accommodated and the
    locations of any movement joints
    c) What trafficking, if any, is anticipated
    d) The means by which the requirements of the Building Regulations
    are to be met, particularly the maximum thermal transmittance
    values of the Building Regulations
    e) How condensation problems are to be prevented
    f) Detail considerations
    g) Roof drainage
    h) What cross falls and/or falls are required to achieve a minimum
    finished fall of 1:80
    i) How skirting heights and minimum threshold heights are to be
    incorporated
    j) The correct location of damp-proof courses relative to the mastic
    asphalt waterproofing
    k) Sufficient working space for the application of materials
    l) Any other relevant information.

    Design of the base

    GENERAL

    Surfaces to which mastic asphalt is to be applied should be installed or


    prepared to a true and even surface free from irregularities such as abrupt
    changes in levels, hollows, ridges, dips, concrete, mortar or plaster droppings.
    The specification should, therefore, enable the asphalt to be supplied to a
    reasonably uniform thickness.

    All materials should provide a substantial and continuous support to the


    roofing
    mastic asphalt roofing and should be able to sustain the loads imposed by
    traffic both during and after roofing operations.

    Any substrate to receive mastic asphalt roofing should be reasonably dry,


    even, free of dust, laitance, grease, dirt, projecting nail heads, sharp arrisses or
    holes.

    The designer should study the need for movement joints in the structure.
    Movement joints should be continuous through vertical upstands, walls and
    edges of buildings.

    DRYING OUT THE BASE

    Concrete slabs and concrete decks cast in situ should be drained


    downwards through temporary drain holes formed in the low points of the
    roof deck. Subject to checking their effect on structural strength, the holes
    should be 25mm diameter, positioned to avoid reinforcement bars in the

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