Roof Overflow Scupper

The top of the roof side flange is extended into a masonry joint.

Roof overflow scupper.

The sides of the flange are sealed against the masonry. Where you have roof drains you are also required to have overflow drains. Home articles overflow drains and scuppers roof drainage. The familiar prescriptive option from prior model uniform building code to simply make overflow scuppers three times the area of the roof drains and position them two inches above the low point of the adjacent roof is gone.

Overflow drains and scuppers roof drainage. Flat roofs that do not drain over the roof edge and roofs that have parapet walls must utilize roof drains to get the water off the roof. Permaspan roof to roof expansion joint. When scuppers are used for secondary emergency overflow roof drainage the quantity size location and inlet elevation of the scuppers shall be sized to prevent the depth of ponding water from exceeding that for which the roof was designed as determined by section 1611 1.

25000 parapet scupper sleeve. In its place are performance requirements to size and position the scupper to prevent the depth of ponding. Green roof drain overflow drain large sump flange. An overflow drainage system will be designed to function independently of the primary system to drain water from the roof.

In short a scupper is a detail that provides drainage to a roof system by allowing the water runoff from the roof to exit the roof through a metal edge parapet wall or through the deck into a downspout or leader not run through the interior of the building. Green roof type with perforated standpipe. 25010 downspout nozzle. The detail shows an alternate method of constructing either type of scupper.

Permaspan roof to roof detail drawing dxf 249 76 kb permaspan roof to roof detail drawing. Scuppers shall not have an opening dimension of less than 4 inches. The scupper is locked and soldered to the closure flange on all sides. Roof drains from zurn include combination primary overflow control flow dual outlet siphonic retrofit and more which cater from educational to commercial needs.

21500 q91 roof drain. 21500 rdg1 roof drain. Rough bronze w wall flange. Scupper retrodrains detail drawing dwg 651 58 kb scupper retrodrains detail drawing dxf 686 85 kb.

On the roof side overflow scuppers can be detailed similar to detail 10 5d.