The manufactured slope of the cricket panel.
Roof deck cricket.
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Crickets generally consist of plywood or oriented strand board osb decking 2.
The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof.
You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters.
Roof crickets are found on the high side of a chimney or when one roof meets another.
A properly installed chimney cricket will direct water and debris around the chimney and off the roof.
To keep this area of the roof resistant to leaks the cricket is installed over the hard right angle that s created.
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A sign shall be posted on each door between the stairway and the roof indicating the following information.
Roof crickets can be covered with metal flashing or with the same material as the rest of the roof.
The roof cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof but not always.
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A roof cricket is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof.
Whether the rooftop garden can be occupied or not occupied 3.
Any chimney wider than 30 in.
Roof decks with roof coverings.
If your chimney doesn t have one watch for holes rusting through the flashing.
In general occupied roof space with structure above is used for assembly occupancy a 2 and will be considered a story per the definition of a story see above.
Considering a roof deck as a story may be acceptable when the height of the deck does not exceed 2 3 stories depending on the construction type and.
Since roof drains are rarely placed in the lowest point of a structural sloping roof deck crickets are usually needed.
If an occupied rooftop garden the maximum occupant load.
Without crickets the area between the drain and the wall remains low and collects water.
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This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle.
I e if the roof surface slope is 1 4 ft the cricket panel slope should be 1 2 ft there are exceptions to this rule please call us for further information.
The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope.
Needs a cricket or saddle basically a small roof built behind the chimney.
Maximum design load 2.
