Ruberoid roofing - a solid foundation for any roof

Ruberoid for the roof - what we're dealing with?

Ruberoid roofing is made of roofing paper, which is impregnated with a first light bitumen, and on top of it on both sides - to give refractory bitumen waterproofing and plastic properties.

Since it comes in the form of rolls, in order to prevent clumping sprinkled dust mixtures.Sometimes, in order to improve the strength characteristics, the outer portion is covered by coarse sand being painted in different colors.Also recently appeared roofing material, reinforced with fiberglass mesh with the obligatory booking the outer surface of the sand.

As roofing material for roofs is quite cheap, flexible, has good waterproofing properties, is resistant to UV light, fast even the efforts of two people fit.Also, because of its cheapness it is ideal for preserving roofs.If after the erection of walls of the first floor and laying them on the floor slab again become necessary preservation object, again better material than roofing material for this purpose is not found.

Unfortunately, roofing material refers to combustible materials , because bitumen, used for its manufacture, is a product of oil refining.Also under the roofing material should definitely do a solid crate, as it is a fairly soft material with a low resistance to tearing, which increases the cost of the work.In addition, he is a rather short-lived material with a lifetime of no more than 15 years.

Ruberoid roofing - laying the foundations

material before laying roofing felt necessary to ensure that sheathing was solid and quite dry.For work, we need the following tools: hammer, screwdriver, knife sectional, steel tank for bitumen mastic, a special brush with a long handle, a blowtorch.

Actually there are three ways of laying roofing:

1. Mechanical.
2. Laying on mastic.
3. Laying by fusing (for roofing material, reinforced with fiberglass mesh).

laying of roofing material on the first method is as follows.First, roll out rolls of roofing material, usually across the roof edge with an overlap of 10-15 cm.

Further presses him, nailing nails or screwing screws through the wooden slats to crate.Instead of racks can be galvanized steel strip width of 2-3 cm. Reiki and bars are located along the strip of roofing material, placing them in the middle and places an overlap edges.However

repair roof with roofing material by this method in the art currently used rarely due to the reduced service life of the material compared to other ways of its laying.

roof repair roofing material - a more popular techniques

Laying the second method occurs in the following sequence.First melt down mastic, which her pieces throw into the metal container, which put on a makeshift platform of bricks and breed beneath the fire.

After complete melting of mastic special brush with a long handle we put it on the roofing material and We serve it so that the side was smeared on top.Then he laid a strip of material into place, turn over its buttered side down and pressed tightly against the entire length.

Then coat with mastic of the laid strip, which will have to overlap the next sheet, for better sealing of joints.Next, in the same manner the remaining strips should be laid, not forgetting carefully press them into the ground an overlap.

Laying roofing, glass fiber reinforced , made using a blowtorch which melts the surface of the underside of the material and gradually laid it on the crate, holding tightly to ensure a good grip.

To connect to the joints at the edge of the strip is provided uncoated grit of the Book, where the surface is melted and the top is placed next sheet material.Because of this the joints are virtually invisible, with no loss of quality coverage.