How to cover the roof of the house
Before you start building a house, you need to decide on many questions and one of them concerns the choice of material for the roof. It is necessary to choose a coating that will protect the building from the weather, will last for a long time and at a cost will not be very expensive.
Main selection criteria
- Tightness. Impairment of tightness is not just moisture getting inside the room, it is also constant humidity, which contributes to the growth of numerous fungal colonies that destroy the supporting structures, as well as adversely affect the health of people living in the house.
- Resistance to UV light. If the material is susceptible to exposure to sunlight, then this roof will last very long, because the summer heat in the middle lane can last long enough.
- Resistance to high and low temperatures, as well as its sharp drops in a short time. It is worth noting that critically high and low temperatures somehow destroy any material, but each specific material can withstand without deformation a certain number of cycles of drastic temperature changes.
- Resistance to other external influences. It is worth noting here that at a high level, the roofing material should be resistant to dusty air, dust, various atmospheric phenomena, as well as mechanical stress.
- Cost Of course, this criterion is not the main one, but still not every person can afford expensive materials. Most homeowners, especially summer residents, want the installation of roofing materials to be inexpensive and at the same time fully satisfy them in all other characteristics.
- Durability. Each material has its own service life, during which its quality remains at the proper level. Than this period is longer, the better for the owner of the room, because changing the coverage will have much less.
- Fire Resistance. Previously, this criterion was significant only when building houses in areas where summer fires were not uncommon. Today, more and more often, homeowners choose roofing materials that are not combustible and fully comply with the necessary fire safety requirements.
Before you make the right choice, you need to get acquainted with all the main types of roofing materials, as well as the positive and negative sides of their use.
Slate
More recently, it was slate that was used in almost every country-type structure. It is not surprising, because it is difficult to find this material cheaper.
- Slateные листы очень просты в монтаже.
- They are made of asbestos cement mortar.
- All slate sheets have the form of waves along which water should flow to the perimeter of the building.
- Slateные листы хорошо переносят перепады температур.
If earlier slate sheets were made only in the classic gray color, then today you can find slate of different shades on sale, which gives tremendous opportunities to create your own building design. The durability of the material is average, up to 40 years, but slate sheets are very fragile. The disadvantages also include a lot of weight.
Metal roofing
Under this expression can hide completely different types of materials that are made of metal. Of course, the most popular is metal tile. This is a steel sheet, which is covered with a layer of zinc on both sides, with a primer, and a polymer coating is applied on top of it.
По своему внешнему виду этот материал напоминает классическую керамическую черепицу. Этот материал был придуман предприимчивыми финнами, которые не хотели отказываться от привычного им дизайна домов, хотя при этом не пренебрегали современными тенденциями и инновациями в строительстве. Крепится metal tile очень легко. Она имеет незначительный вес, что также является преимуществом. К сожалению, у металлочерепицы есть и недостатки, такие как плохая шумо- и теплоизоляция.
On sale you can also find steel sheets for mounting the roof. Usually they are covered with a special zinc anti-corrosion coating, which increases the life of the roof.
Faltsevy roof sold in sheets or rolls. This roofing material usually has a coating of titanium, which is sprayed with a thin layer. It also comes in a variety of colors and weighs a little. Unfortunately, the cost of a faltsevy roof cannot be called cheap, however this material definitely justifies the cost of expenses for its purchase and installation.
Metal profiled часто используется для монтажа кровли жилых домов, в том числе в качестве кровли хозяйственных построек, например, гаража или сарая. Metal profiled весит немного, относительно дешев и чрезвычайно прост в монтаже.
Bituminous roofing materials
This is a whole class of roofing materials, among which are some of the most popular. The basis of the roll materials is fiberglass or cardboard, and the top is protected by a special layer with a high bitumen content, to which polymers can be added to increase ductility. The cost of such materials is quite affordable, and therefore rolled bitumen materials will help to make the roof inexpensively and efficiently.
There are bituminous materials, which are small parts of the future roof. It is both euroslate, known as ondulin, and a soft roof. They are very decorative and at the same time combine all the advantages of rolled bituminous materials. The disadvantages include the considerable cost and complexity of installation, and most often the cost of the work of specially invited professionals.
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