Currently, residential and public construction as roofing materials are increasingly used materials used for the device with a soft roof.
Soft roof includes a fairly wide range of materials for the roof, the main feature of which is the need for a solid foundation for their installation. Soft roof – is the code name of the carpet construction waterproofing, the device is applied roll materials, polymeric membranes, mastic material, as well as soft (bituminous) roof tiles. These materials require the device under a rigid foundation.
In order for the wide range of materials available on the market rolled roofing to choose appropriate material for a particular object, it should be, above all, familiar with their characteristics. The relevant regulations define a list of technical indicators that characterize each type of material. However, for private consumers only a few important parameters, which are also necessary to look for when choosing the material. Consistently looking at each of these parameters by comparing and analyzing, we can draw the necessary conclusions that will help you further assess the suitability of a particular roofing material for a particular roof.
Material properties of soft roofs are highly dependent on the components that are used for their manufacture. Understanding how certain components influence the technical characteristics of the materials of soft roofs, and facilitate their choice.
This article describes the shingles (Boxed soft top), as the most popular varieties of soft roof, used today in large cottage construction.
Piece-soft roof, also known as soft tile, or shingles, has been invented as an analogue of natural tile, and have an order of magnitude (more than 5 times) less weight, and (2 – 3 times) lower price. At the same time reducing the weight of the roof will automatically lead to a decrease in the cost of construction of the entire house – basement, walls, ceilings, rafters, and naturally soft tile installation.
Soft shingles are also often referred to as roof tiles, shingles, or shingles. It is a small flat plates, with scalloped cutouts on one side (usually a single sheet of 4.3 simulates the tile). This material, on the one hand, it is MMA, on the other hand, it can justifiably be attributed to a group of “soft materials”, as in its structure and components used it is close to the rolled material. In addition, like all other soft roofing materials, it performs only a protective (insulating) function.
The basis of shingles – fiberglass or fiberglass coated on both sides of oxidized or modified bitumen.The front surface – colored stone or mineral grit, which gives the material a variety of color shades and protects against the climate, providing thus an extended period of operation. The visible surface can be applied bituminous adhesive patches that are intended to bond the tiles to each other when laying overlap (in the absence of an adhesive layer on the underside of the tiles).
The underside of the tiles or completely covered with a layer of quartz sand, or on the edge of the tile is applied a layer of additional self-adhesive SBS modified bitumen, which is protected with a special film.
For roofs with a slight slope, or having a base to which you can not mount the tiles with nails, use a fully self-adhesive tiles.
A number of firms used for the surface layer copper plates, which, although increases the cost of the product, but gives additional possibilities for design.
Soft tiles, lined with copper sheet is slightly different from the conventional asphalt tile structure. Tile is already out of 8 layers, adhesive strips, copper foil, two layers of modified bitumen, two layers of fiberglass, lightweight coating and a protective film.
The tiles coated with a copper sheet, can have a scaly or rectangular shape.
There are more than two dozen colors shingles from the red, creating the impression of a traditional tile covering to simulate overgrown with moss or lichen surfaces, and coated with a thin copper sheet.Tiles are available in different forms (in the form of a hexagon, rectangle, wavy, etc.
Soft tile manufacture, as a rule, firms that have an assortment of roll materials as well as most of the components used for the manufacture of both, is practically the same: the oxidized bitumen, modified bitumen, fiberglass and others. Manufacturing technology of roll and piece of soft material similar in many ways. For soft tile and are first rolled material, but a slightly different structure, and then (using a special technology) cut from a tile.
Shingles can be used on roofs with a slope of not less than 10 , and with slopes of 10 to 18 to the device special carpet underlay. The maximum slope is not limited to, you can even cover the roofs of adjoining parts of the vertical walls. Bitumen tiles are used for the roofs of new devices, and for the reconstruction of the old (superimposed on top of damaged coatings prepared in a certain way). In the case of the device soft tile surface coatings of bitumen, the latter function as the bottom of the carpet underlay.
Since shingles is a single-piece material and does not form a completely continuous coating, it does not require the elasticity to the same extent as the rolled material. Deformation of the material (aging) is limited in each tile that does not violate the integrity of the coating on the internal stresses.
When the roof of the soft tile substrates must be fixed, firm, smooth, dry and ventilated sure.Humidity his material according to the technology may not exceed 20% of dry weight. As the base can be used by the board, plywood, etc. During the reconstruction, the old cover (from bituminous materials, metal sheets, etc.) must be properly prepared, which is extremely important to ensure reliable operation of the future of the soft tile roof.
On the way to mount the tiles affected by their structure, pitch, and the base material.
The most easily stacked tiles with adhesive layer and a protective film. In this case, the film is removed before installation, and each tile is attached to the base with nails or without them (for some types of tiles). After that, under the influence of solar heat is bonding the bottom surface of the tiles to the ground and to adjacent tiles. As a result, formed a tight roof covering.
Features of technology depends on the installation of the outdoor temperature at which the work performed. The best temperature for the installation of approximately +6 C. If it is lower, then glued roofing tiles is achieved by heating the adhesive surfaces of hot air from a special device. In hot weather, as the tiles need to be kept in the shadows, to ensure easy installation and easy to remove the plastic wrap.
For roofing shingles made of soft, except for ordinary tiles, are also required for the various elements and components dobornye. This curtain strips, ridge elements (with vents), vent pipes, vacuum fan (to optimize ventilation or roof structure of the upper floors), rolled materials for the bottom of the carpet, roofing nails or hooks, etc.
Typically, manufacturers of soft tiles have a special table with the estimated consumption of components, depending on the size and slope of the roof.
In the domestic market is represented by soft tile following companies: TechnoNIKOL (Russia); ICOPAL, KATEPAL, LEMMINKAINEN (Finland); TEGOLA (Italy); GAF, SHINGLE (USA); Onduline (France), etc.
Soft tile looks great, on the roofs of private homes as houses and in public buildings, especially roofs with complex shapes. The tiles coated with copper sheets can be successfully used even for the domes of cathedrals.
The main advantage of shingles is that it can be used for roofs of any complexity, shape and configuration, up to the bulbous domes and roofs, while it fits perfectly into the surrounding landscape.It has high sound-absorbing properties.
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