Hi,
Hoping for some inspiration for a outdoor seating area I am planning to build. The main structure will be timber, but I am struggling to find a nice looking and suitable roof covering.
The height at the house wall side is ~2.7m, and the projection from the wall is 6m. I would like to keep the open side as high as possible, to enable as much light in as possible.
I am not a fan of flat roofs generally, but material choices are not nice to look at. I do like a a pantile style clay tile, but the lowest angle option I can find is 12.5 degrees. Given the projection, this would result in ~1.4m height at the open end. Far too low!
A google search comes up short, as it just offers the standard flat roofing materials such as felt, epdm etc.
I know for a fact that in countries such as Spain and Italy they use clay tiles (or similar) on much shallower roofs. I cannot find any information on these. Anyone able to shed any light on this?
Alternatively I was wondering whether I could just use the Marley pantile tile at say 5/10 degs. As weird as it sounds, the roof does not need to be water-tight as such, as it is an outdoor area. Just keep the rain/sun off so we can sit under. If I compare to the basic ship-lap timber roof on my children's climbing frame, this is as simple as it gets and stays pretty much completely dry underneath even in heavy rain. I cannot see a reason why this would not work, but maybe there is something I am missing?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hoping for some inspiration for a outdoor seating area I am planning to build. The main structure will be timber, but I am struggling to find a nice looking and suitable roof covering.
The height at the house wall side is ~2.7m, and the projection from the wall is 6m. I would like to keep the open side as high as possible, to enable as much light in as possible.
I am not a fan of flat roofs generally, but material choices are not nice to look at. I do like a a pantile style clay tile, but the lowest angle option I can find is 12.5 degrees. Given the projection, this would result in ~1.4m height at the open end. Far too low!
A google search comes up short, as it just offers the standard flat roofing materials such as felt, epdm etc.
I know for a fact that in countries such as Spain and Italy they use clay tiles (or similar) on much shallower roofs. I cannot find any information on these. Anyone able to shed any light on this?
Alternatively I was wondering whether I could just use the Marley pantile tile at say 5/10 degs. As weird as it sounds, the roof does not need to be water-tight as such, as it is an outdoor area. Just keep the rain/sun off so we can sit under. If I compare to the basic ship-lap timber roof on my children's climbing frame, this is as simple as it gets and stays pretty much completely dry underneath even in heavy rain. I cannot see a reason why this would not work, but maybe there is something I am missing?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
