How to cover the roof with a soft roof with your own hands -

Recently, the roof of shingles has become very popular among developers. This roofing has an attractive appearance, not inferior to the beauty of traditional tiles, long service life and high moisture resistance. Thanks to the self-adhesive layer on the back of the shingle, laying a soft roof with your own hands can be done even in the absence of professional experience. In this article we will describe how to prepare the base correctly, assemble the crate and lay the shingles.

Material Features

Tile is called tile with a curved edge, made of fiberglass, impregnated with modified oil bitumen. Laid overlap, this roof mimics the uncommon, but aesthetic shingles coating of wooden chocks. Fiberglass, which is part of shingles, can be plain or reinforced with polyester. The production technology of this material includes sprinkling the front side of the booking with stone or basalt crumb reserving, which gives color and a rough texture to the roof. Advantages of shingles believe:

1. Durability. The service life of a soft roof on the basis of polyester-reinforced fiberglass is more than 70 years, which completely pays for the costs of the roof structure.
2. Weather resistance Soft tile withstands exposure to atmospheric moisture, ultraviolet rays and other adverse environmental factors, while maintaining performance.
3. Aesthetics. A variety of shapes and colors of the material opens up tremendous opportunities for creating a harmonious, solid image of the house.
4. Flexibility. Flexible, elastic bitumen tiles suitable for arranging roofs of complex shape with a large number of ramps, valleys and other decorative elements.

Important! The technology of laying shingles is notable for its simplicity; therefore, it is easily implemented even by a non-professional. Do-it-yourself soft roofing is the perfect solution for the roof of a private house, holiday cottage, gazebo or townhouse.

Features of work with the material

Before you cover the roof with a soft roof, you must make sure that a reliable foundation is prepared for work. Also, the installation technology of a soft roof involves performing work under certain weather conditions. If you do not follow the recommendations of the manufacturer, you can encounter the following problems:

• If the shingles are laid at an ambient temperature of less than 5-10 degrees, the self-adhesive layer on the back of the tiles does not melt on its own. To melt the bitumen have to use a gas burner or a hairdryer. However, this makes it difficult and slows down the laying of tiles.
• If you perform laying shingles at temperatures above 25 degrees, the self-adhesive bitumen layer melts too much and flows down the slope. In addition, the high temperature leads to deformation of the roof.
• If you install the roof in wet weather or during rain, the roof frame and lathing acquire excessive moisture, which adversely affects the service life of the tile, leading to decay.

Important! The technology of mounting the material, recommended by manufacturers, prescribes laying at a temperature of 5-15 degrees in dry weather. Most often, such conditions develop only in summer. However, in winter, you can assemble the roof frame for the roof and prepare the basis for the roofing flooring.

Fitting darts

Before you make a soft roof, you need to assemble a high-quality, durable crate. The technology of laying shingles involves the use of a solid base, which gives rigidity and mechanical strength to soft roofing. The crate should ensure uniform distribution of the weight of the roof between the rafters, so it is created from 3 layers:

1. Counterbribe. The counter lattice for soft tile is made of wooden bars with a thickness of 3-4 cm. It is attached along the frame's truss legs over the waterproofing material. The task of the counter-grille is to create a ventilation gap between the rafters of the roof covering.
2. Sparse crate. This base element for soft tile is made of edged boards of 20x150 mm. The boards are nailed perpendicular to the counter-grid at a distance of 30-50 cm.
3. Solid crate. It is made of moisture resistant plywood, sheets of OSB or edged boards, laid solid with a gap of 1-3 mm, compensating for the thermal expansion of the material. In order to prevent damage to the soft tile, it is necessary to sand or sharpen the elements of the batten so that they are smooth.

Consider that it is correct to use softwood, dried up to 20 percent, for making crates for soft roofing. To prevent premature decay of wooden elements, they are treated with antiseptic preparations. If the structure has a high risk of fire, the crate is impregnated with fire-blocking compounds.

Lining carpet

Soft roof with his hands fit on a solid crate made of particle board or moisture-resistant plywood. Поверх основания укладывается подкладочный ковер – подкладку из влагостойкого, устойчивого к механическим повреждениям битумного материала. Lining carpet защищает крышу от протечек, а также от повреждения битумной черепицы неровностями обрешетки. Coating mounting technology recommends:

• When the slope of the roof is less than 15-18 degrees, lay the lining carpet on the entire surface of the slopes with an overlap of 15-20 cm, since water may linger on it during the melting of snow masses of large volume.
• When the slope angle of slopes is more than 20 degrees, the lining carpet can be laid only in places that are particularly vulnerable to leaks, where water can accumulate or stagnate. Additional waterproofing protect endov, joints of stingrays with vertical surfaces, ridge.
• Do not use plain ruberoid as a lining. The low price does not compensate for the poor quality, brittleness and small life of this material.

Experienced craftsmen are advised to use as a lining carpet the material that the manufacturer recommends, as it is guaranteed to be compatible with the selected shingles.

Piling

Installation of a soft roof with their own hands is carried out in a dry, windless weather at a temperature of 5-15 degrees. If the material is being laid on an old truss frame, it is necessary to check the condition of the wood and then replace rotten or deformed elements. Installation is performed in the following order:

1. At first, the slope is marked out with horizontal stripes marking the location of the rows of the soft roof with the help of white chalk.
2. Laying material properly start from the bottom of the ramp, using the starting strip. Fix the roof covering with nails or self-adhesive layer. If the tile is self-adhesive, then for its gluing it is enough to remove the protective film, and then tightly attach it to the base of the roof.
3. If nails are used to fix the coating, they should be positioned no closer than 2.5 cm from the edge, and also to be flush with the surface of the material.
4. The second row begins to be laid on the left side of the chute with a tile, from which 143 mm are cut from the left edge, thus displacing the bituminous tile pattern diagonally.
5. For the start, the third row from the tile is cut a fragment of 286 mm in length from the left edge in order to also shift the coating pattern in a diagonal direction.
6. After completing the installation of a soft roof, make up the ridge using a ridge element, junction points with vertical surfaces and endyovy.

Note! In order for the roof of soft tiles to function properly, it is necessary to equip the ventilation system in order to avoid the "greenhouse effect" and the rotting of the roof frame of the structure.

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