SIPs Roof on Brick/Block Walls

[BadgerBadger]

Hi all,

Our build is heading through planning at the moment so, whilst I have the chance, I'm getting ahead on options for construction phase.

 

We're aiming for good insulation and air tightness, but are drawn to some of the benefits of masonry construction.  Our roof is relatively large, the overall building footprint is around 200m2, as the plans include an attached garage and a vaulted single-storey kitchen/dining/living section.  Due to ridge height constraints the upstairs bedrooms in the two-storey section could also potentially benefit from being vaulted.

 

So, does anyone have an experience of combining a SIPs roof on masonry walls?  Is it a logical thing to do?!  We're splitting the build in work packages that will be contracted out, whilst hoping to manage the interfaces and do some strategic things ourselves to save some money as opposed to using a single main contractor.  Our thinking was a manufactured SIPs roof would be quick to install whilst giving us good performance, and we could then push on with the roof covering at a more leisurely pace as the internals would be largely weathertight? (there's a lot of plain clay tiles to fix!)

[curlewhouse]

Well yes you will end up with a nice simple roof with no trusses etc taking up space and it will be well insulated. But you know you can have a full SIPs house and still have a masonry outer - that's what we have. So its traditional stone on the outside, but concealing a full warm SIPs house on the inside.