Legal Definition Of A Roof

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Legal definition of a roof.

Building edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place. The cover of a building. There was a three story building on the corner. Roof means the exterior surface on the top of a building.

Roof a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building. Material used for a roof. An upper limit. It was an imposing edifice.

This does not include floors or form work which because a building has not been completed temporarily becoming the top surface of a building. Roofing work means the hoisting storage application. All materials contained within the roof assemblies installed by the contractor including all materials above the deck including membrane flashing up to and including 1067mm 42 above the surface of the primary membrane and related sheet metal work. If not then it would be a common sense definition not a legal definition.

Means the covering material installed in a building over the roof deck including all materials used in securing the roof covering all materials applied under the roof cover for moisture protection and the roof flashing. The roof of a dwelling conventionally designating the home itself didn t have a roof over my head they share the same roof.