Installation details shall conform to sections 2304 7 1 and 2304 7 2 for floor and roof sheathing respectively.
Roof sheathing thickness 16 oc.
Most roofs will be sheathed in plywood at least 3 8 inch thick.
24 16 teco sheathing span.
1 inch 25 4 mm.
Loads will vary with the pitch of the roof.
Never attach roof sheathing with staples.
That will suffice on a roof with rafters set 16 inches apart with minimal roof loads.
The thickness required by josh s circumstances are good for roof snow loads of up to 70 psf again spanning 24.
8d ring shank nails should be used instead.
Roof sheathing comes in grid marked 4 by 8 foot sheets and should be installed perpendicular to the frame.
The typical thickness range for sheathing is 3 8 to 3 4 inch.
We re in dallas so we don t engineer for tremendous live loads for an asphalt shingle and we feel comfortable with 16 oc rafter spacing and 7 16 osb decking.
For the curious 7 16 osb has a span rating of 24 16 and with supports every 24 inches is good for a roof live load of 40 psf pounds per square foot with a 10 psf dead load.
Sheathing should be a minimum of 19 32 inch thick.
Nominal panel thickness table b assists in calculation of.