Premier brand structural insulated panels.
Roof sip panel hold downs.
Extremely affordable when you use raycore sip wall panels you will be able to downsize your heating and cooling system reducing the cost and possibly saving as much as the cost of the panels.
Roof panels not mitered correctly to overlap others.
When installing these pre wired roof panels the builder or electrician must route the wiring from the roof panel into the appropriate vertical wire chase in the wall panels leading to switches electrical termination or sources.
Poor fitting splines esp roof.
For example in south florida building with sips is significantly less expensive due to the number and size of hold downs required for stick framed structures.
They always happen and some did here but sips make things much harder and time consuming to correct.
The roof structure is 10 25 sips on a 2 12 pitch and the developers are going with either metal roofing or a torch down system.
The pitch of the roof is very low only 1 2 inch in 12 and the metal roofing has been applied directly over the sips with no air channel beneath the roofing for ventilation.
Sips make cathedral ceilings easy to build and extremely energy efficient.
Panels not square short panels walls not beveled correctly tie down plates not embedded as per plans.
For the metal roofing it s a not brainer.
The ridges caused by the expansion of sip roof panels may be an aesthetic blemish but it does not affect the performance of the roofing or the sip roof panels.
When the house was built melton sealed the seams between roof panels with tape applied on the bottom of the panels.
Ray core structural insulated wall panels will give you a strong super insulated airtight shell keeping the outdoor elements out and the indoor conditioning in.
Not only do you get extra space at no extra cost but the energy efficiency of extreme s sip roofs is an added benefit.
This will bring the cost per square foot of a house down.
Several assemblies that prevent shingle ridging are described in the builder s guide to structural insulated panels sips.
In our opinion there is no other building method that is more efficient for building than structural insulated panels.
What are structural insulated panels.
Sips consist of a foam core sandwiched between sheets of oriented strand board or osb a type of plywood.
Specifying a cold roof or simply over sheathing the roof.
Raycore s insulated roof panels and insulated wall panels are far superior than other sips with highest r value custom blend of polyurethane foam insulation wrapped in a foil radiant barrier and producing a superiorly strong lightweight do it yourself diy friendly sip panel.
Roof panels and cathedral ceilings.
We ll strap it and create an air space but we ve never done a torch down on sips.
