Warm Deck Zinc Roof

Warm zinc roof construction can also use timber substrates but the need to reduce cold bridging in many countries has led to the use of rigid insulation boards and composite insulation boards or sandwich panels as the direct substrate under the zinc.

Warm deck zinc roof.

The metdeck warm roof solution consisting of insulated decking board for long strip copper and zinc standing seam roofing utilising the high performance of kingspan kooltherm technology. Fixed through to the deck with special fixing clips and screws supplied by vmzinc. Products typically used are warmfast and thermoseam and the setting out of the fixed sliding clips is to specific manufacture guidelines. Surface finishes as follows.

Metdeck is the warm roof solution. Installation with this warm roof system zinc plus standing seam can be installed on rigid insulation without ventilating the underside of the zinc plus. Contrasted with the cold deck roof this construction has a much lower risk of condensation as the void will be of a comparable temperature to the roof. The insulation in a warm deck roof is installed immediately below the roof membrane on top of the roof deck usually with a vapour control layer underneath the insulation.