Guidance

This guidance provides an overview of the characteristics, advantages, and limitations of Brazilian slate, highlighting its differences from true European slate, the practical considerations for its use, and the environmental and regulatory factors to be aware of when specifying it for roofing or cladding.

This guidance details the considerations to be taken into account when overlaying a flat roof.

This four page guidance note gives an overview of the common detailing topics with an RBM roof system. It covers angle fillets, hard edges and upstands and terminations bars.

This guidance note identifies the requirements for the ventilation of pitched roofs and roof voids where roof-integrated PV solar panels are installed in tiled and slated roofs using LR and HR type underlays.

This four page guidance note provides 2022 Changes to Approved Document Part L1 Conservation of Fuel and Power in New and Existing Dwellings.

This one-page guidance gives an overview of the new BS 5534:2014+A2:2018 revision which included requirements for a new test to analyse an underlay’s ability to withstand wind uplift.

This eight page bulletin gives advice for slating and tiling on metal roof decks. It brings together conventional slate and tile roof covering methods, traditionally supported by timber roof structures, with the now established roof decking systems formed from roll formed metal sheet and sandwich panels, fixed to steel framed buildings.