Under the roof of my house, your, our, any residential or public building, it should be warm and dry, and for this you need a good roof. It is on it that the durability of the entire structure depends, the need to rarely or constantly carry out repair work. Good roof in the house is an important element of quality construction. There are several types for her materials: corrugated board, metal tiles, folding roofs, composite, natural and flexible tiles, a melting roof.
The form, constructive execution and material of the roof of the house depend largely on the traditions, climatic conditions and financial capabilities of the owner of the house that have developed in a particular region. It is the roof that protects any structure from rains, snow, hail.
High-quality roof should have the following important qualities: strength, water resistance, frost resistance, resistance to chemical exposure, slight mass, good sound absorption, architectural and decorative harmony with the whole house, ease of care, durability.
The most popular and popular types of roofs today are the metal tile and corrugated board – they are made of rolled galvanized steel with or without coating, rolled under different profiles. There are such types of corrugated board and metal tiles, such as matte polyester, plastisol, polyester, polyurethane, prism, claudi, aluzink.
A little less popular, but no less reliable composite tiles are a roofing coating of a steel sheet coated with a layer of alucine, on which a layer of basalt granulatory is applied. Another type of roof is cement-sand tiles. This is a natural tile made of quartz sand and Portland cement with an admixture of pigments.
The most expensive ceramic tiles of clay are considered. In order to make it different colors, different dyes are used in manufacture. The most common due to its quality and democratic value is a soft tile based on bitumen materials. They are based on black binding bitumen and their polymers, additives of different modifiers, synthetic polymers.
The most popular brands that produce excellent flexible tiles are considered domestic shinglas, Finnish Flex, as well as European Tegola. In Russia, this company also has its own production base. A separate roof group is wavy bitumen-cartoon sheets, the so-called Euro-shifer, to which Ondulin also belongs. There is also such a type of roof as asbestos -cement coatings – simply familiar to us from childhood slafers.