Roofing Parapet Wall

Venting in wood framed parapets.

Roofing parapet wall.

In commercial construction parapets are ubiquitous and they are often required. This video is about making a transition form a flat roof to a parapet wall with taracotta clay caps. And with the trend in rooftop gardening and entertaining parapets serve to save people from accidental falls. A parapet roof is simply put when a building s outermost walls extend upwards past the roof around the edges most often by a few feet.

Provide venting to each wall cavity. The cure for parapetitus is continuity of the control layers and letting things move when they have to move. Different types of parapet walls and their uses are discussed below. Can use round louvered soffit vents to limit bulk water intrusion if venting holes are in exposed location.

A parapet wall is a low or dwarf wall built along the edge of the roof terrace walkway balcony etc. Today the primary function of a parapet wall is to protect the edge of a roof assembly from destructive wind forces called vortices plural for vortex. The perimeter of the roof assembly insulation is wrapped to prevent interstitial airflow from the parapet into the multilayered rigid insulation of the field of the roof. Parapet walls can be constructed using different materials like reinforced cement concrete steel aluminium glass etc.