Roof of shingles with their own hands, how to cover the roof

The shingled roof in the last century was the most popular and widespread type of roofing due to the lack of more practical and reliable waterproofing materials than wood. Upon the arrival of more than 100 years, wooden coating has not lost its relevance and is still used by people who value primarily the environmental cleanliness and safety of the material. Manufacturing technology of shingled roofs is a legacy of ancient Russian architects, which was kept for a long time and passed from mouth to mouth by craftsmen, so now we can make light, durable and durable coverage for our home with our own hands.

Main characteristics

Shingle roofing is one of the oldest methods of roof overlapping and the use of thin wooden chocks stacked in several layers with overlapping to obtain a sealed waterproofing layer. It is made of aspen or pine wood, which in the process of production of blanks is cut into plates of the same size. The wooden roof is laid with a minimum slope of 15 degrees, compared with metal and polymer counterparts, it has the following advantages:

• A light weight. The shingles have a light weight due to the qualities of wood and the small thickness of the plates. This quality reduces the load on the roof frame and the foundation of the building.
• Low thermal conductivity. Wooden shingle roof well retains heat inside the building in winter, and also does not allow the room to heat up with high solar activity.
• High noise absorption capacity. The shingles do not resonate when drops are falling during rain or hail, so it is considered virtually silent.
• Доступная цена. Laying technology гонта достаточно проста, поэтому такую кровлю можно сделать своими руками, не затрачивая средства на наем профессиональной бригады.

Note! The disadvantages of shingled roof are considered a relatively short service life compared to more modern counterparts. In addition, it is flammable, so the poet is not used to overlap buildings with a high risk of fire without a mandatory flame retardant treatment.

Billet chocks

To make a high-quality and durable roof of shingles, you must prepare your own hands or buy thin wooden blanks, often called chocks. The plates of which the shingle roof consists of are made of pine, spruce, hardwood or aspen wood, cleared of bark, in one of 2 two ways:

1. Manually. To make chocks for the manufacture of a shingle roof with your own hands, you need to buy even logs, and then split them into 2 halves and cut the core. All that remains after the cutting of the core is chopped into thin plates of approximately the same size.
2. Industrial. Industrial manufacturing technology of shingles is different in that the log is divided into larger blocks, which allows you to make longer chops to simplify the overlap of skates of a large area.

Important! Although the price of industrial-made shingles is not so high, it is better to make chocks for a shingle roof with your own hands. The fact is that billets are made by hand by the method of splitting, and not sawing, in which the structure of the wood fibers is broken.

Crate requirements

The finished wooden roof is a multi-layer waterproofing coating consisting of individual elements that overlap each other. Although the shingles coating is very light, its installation requires a solid and reliable base. Crate for flooring wooden roof make two types:

• Solid. The solid crate consists of individual slats or square wooden bars laid without gaps.
• Sparse. Sparse crate is also made from slats, boards or wooden bars, however, they are fixed in increments of 5-10 cm, which makes it easier to construct and save materials.

Experienced craftsmen argue that it is necessary to install vapor-permeable waterproofing on top of the rafters in order to protect the roof frame from water penetration, but at the same time not to deprive the design of the ability to "breathe."

Laying technology

Laying technology кровли из осиновой или хвойной дранки – монотонный и долгий процесс, который тем не менее вполне можно выполнить своими руками. A wooden roof can consist of 2-5 layers of chocks. To overlap non-residential or commercial buildings, a two-layer coating is sufficient, and for residential ones, multi-layer roofing and overlapping by one-third, one-fourth or one-fifth of the chocks are necessary. The sequence of building shingled roof is as follows:

1. First harvested chocks. To do this, remove the bark from the logs, cut the core, and then divide the remaining chumps into thin plates of the same size.
2. On rafter legs with sagging they lay out waterproofing material, and then attach it to the frame with a construction stapler.
3. Above the waterproofing perpendicular to the rafters, they fix a solid or sparse crate of edged boards or bars.
4. Laying chocks start from the bottom row of the roof. Fix the planks with special nails 60-80 mm long, boiled in linseed oil to prevent splitting of the material.
5. The second row is laid with the overlap of the first so as to protect the seams between the planks from leaking moisture.

Consider that in case of breakage or leakage the wooden roof is easily repaired. To do this, you must carefully dismantle the damaged chock and replace it with a new one.

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