I'm new to the forum, but would really like some help. Hopefully, someone has run into this before and can help me out.
I'm located in Central Texas and am building a house with my wife. The house was originally started by the previous owners and we are replacing and redoing quite a bit of it at the start. We are doing the majority of the work ourselves (taking forever) and we are getting close to working on the roofing. I've been reading a lot about Green Building and am trying to make the house as efficient as my budget allows. I found fiberfaced 2.5" Polyiso foam locally and had a whole bunch of it delivered to install on the roof. I plan to put one layer down over the roof and am wondering what the correct, or best, method is. The roof is sheathed with 7/16" OSB on 24" centers over 2x4 trusses. There is currently 15# tar paper on the sheathing but that will be coming off for synthetic roof underlayment. I plan to put the poly down over top of the underlayment and then another layer of underlayment (30# felt or synthetic, not sure) over top. I will then put 1x4 or 2x4 purlins at a 45 degree angle (to create venting) over the underlayment and poly and then I will have a standing seam metal roof installed.
So my plan is:
1. 7/16" OSB sheathing
2. synthetic underlayment
3. 2.5" Fiberfaced Polyiso
4. 30# roof felt
5. 1x4 or 2x4 (does the size matter?) purlins
6. standing seam metal roof
Does this sound like a good plan, or should I have another layer of sheathing or should I skip the roof felt, or is there any other suggestions you guys might have?
Thanks in advance.
I also attached a picture of the polyiso (111 sheets of 4x8) and a picture of the house/roof as of a week ago.
I'm located in Central Texas and am building a house with my wife. The house was originally started by the previous owners and we are replacing and redoing quite a bit of it at the start. We are doing the majority of the work ourselves (taking forever) and we are getting close to working on the roofing. I've been reading a lot about Green Building and am trying to make the house as efficient as my budget allows. I found fiberfaced 2.5" Polyiso foam locally and had a whole bunch of it delivered to install on the roof. I plan to put one layer down over the roof and am wondering what the correct, or best, method is. The roof is sheathed with 7/16" OSB on 24" centers over 2x4 trusses. There is currently 15# tar paper on the sheathing but that will be coming off for synthetic roof underlayment. I plan to put the poly down over top of the underlayment and then another layer of underlayment (30# felt or synthetic, not sure) over top. I will then put 1x4 or 2x4 purlins at a 45 degree angle (to create venting) over the underlayment and poly and then I will have a standing seam metal roof installed.
So my plan is:
1. 7/16" OSB sheathing
2. synthetic underlayment
3. 2.5" Fiberfaced Polyiso
4. 30# roof felt
5. 1x4 or 2x4 (does the size matter?) purlins
6. standing seam metal roof
Does this sound like a good plan, or should I have another layer of sheathing or should I skip the roof felt, or is there any other suggestions you guys might have?
Thanks in advance.
I also attached a picture of the polyiso (111 sheets of 4x8) and a picture of the house/roof as of a week ago.
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