Repair of the roof garden houses

Any owner of a country house, sooner or later will still face issues related to the current or capital repairs of their property. In particular, this problem becomes relevant for the cottages, which were built at the end of the last century. These cottages in our time gradually begin to lose its appeal, roofs begin to leak, wood trim elements - crack.

Hence, the need to repair the country house, one way or another, will be on the agenda of almost any of its owner. In this article, I would like to talk about in any case needs minor repairs of the roof and in which situations need complete replacement of the roof, as well as how to do it all on their own, without the help of specialists.

When it becomes necessary to repair the roof of the country house?

In most cases the Cottage property is not operated all year round, and in a certain period (seasonally adjusted), but despite this, still comes a time when it is also in need of repair or restoration of its individual elements, such as roofs. And it is often the roof requires repair or complete replacement, because it is exposed different weather conditions throughout the year, regardless of whether someone lives in the house or not.

The decisive factor for the start of the roof repair work is its flow, which is expressed in the ceiling in the rain while the appearance of wet spots. And during prolonged rain dripping from the ceiling, the water can even form a puddle on the floor of the house. The complexity of the situation that you may have to seriously evaluate it depends what further measures and actions need to be taken to correct the problem.

The roof may leak for several reasons, and for what it is, we will look at below:

• Full or partial destruction of the roof overlap at the point of leakage, and sometimes even the appearance of through holes.
• The fall on the roof of the massive splinter branches or entire trees during inclement weather, accompanied by strong gusts of wind.
• Rusted iron, slate or broken due to normal operation expiration materials.

What is to be: a complete replacement of slate or just repair the roof?

The bulk of the country houses built in the last century, a wing of the widespread and available at the time the material - slate or asbestos. This material is in need of repair in a couple of decades due to natural causes, and repair of this is not too difficult to do with their hands. In most cases it is not necessary to change the entire slate sheets, you can only apply patches in areas that have been damaged.

To perform a repair of some sections of the slate roof, you must comply with the following procedure:

Purification slate surface

Before repair roof is desirable to clean it from dirt and debris through the hose and the water pressure.

Preparation composition for repair

While roof drying after washing and cleaning is necessary to prepare a repair mixture. For the preparation of this composition need ingredients such as asbestos; cement, whose brand is not less than the M300; PVA glue. Asbestos can be used as a sheet (for this purpose it is necessary to grate or crush anyway), and ready to have shredded. Since asbestos is harmful to human health, while working with them must always use personal protective equipment - respirators. To prepare the mixture for the failed patch slate should be mixed asbestos and cement in proportions suitable type 3: 2. Further, this composition is necessary to fill water and a solution of PVA glue in the proportions equal to 1: 1. The resulting mixture was thoroughly stirred to form a homogeneous mass, like a thick cream.

Preparatory work

Once the mixture is prepared by repair, it is possible to directly proceed to repair the roof. It should be noted, to the resulting mixture dries more evenly, and have gained a strong patch, it is best to repair the roof in a country house to produce a dry and cloudy weather. For applying the mixture it is desirable to acquire a large brush to which, if necessary for convenience, can be attached to a long handle. Slate - quite brittle material, so for repairs is better to use a ladder, in order to avoid damage to the material. And if this is not possible, then just follow the orderly. To cut the damaged piece of slate, use a saw that is designed for cutting metal.

Application premix

Prior to applying the prepared solution, slate roof to lubricate glue PVA solution, which is diluted with water in ratio 1: 3. Thereafter, the damaged area is applied ready beforehand prepared solution, the thickness of which should be more than 2 mm. Using this method, you can not only repair the roof of your holiday home, but also the roof of the garage or some outbuildings. Repair of roofs by preparing such a composition is able to extend the life of slate on the roof of your cottage construction for about five years.

Sometimes slate roof damaged so that to make repairs, as described above, it is not possible. In this case, there is nothing left, how to dismantle an old, broken-down material, and to resort to the installation of new sheets of slate.

When installing a new slate is necessary to observe the following instructions:

• Removing the old roofing material.
• Assessment of the state of the formwork and the rafters and their repair or replacement, if necessary.
• can be laid on the rafters of roofing felt or some other insulating material to ensure the integrity of the new material.
• This is followed by laying new slate sheets. They are beginning to put, since the bottom corner on the diagonal, gradually moving towards the opposite corner of the roof. Such a method is geometrically correct, providing reliable sealing slate.
• It is necessary to do the horizontal overlap of approximately the same width slate.
• The second row of masonry slate is indented at 10 cm from the first row of horizontal masonry.
• For cutting sheets of slate (for the stowage area of ​​the chimney or on the edges) is used to set bolgarka diamond disc.
• Slate fastened to a batten by means of nails slate to be driven into the slate plate comb.

How to repair the roof of metal

Metal recently enjoyed extraordinary demand as a modern roofing material. What are the properties of metal make it attractive for use as a roof roofs? Firstly, it is its long service life, which is about 50 years or more. Secondly, metal sufficiently resistant to large stresses, and it has excellent corrosion characteristics.

However, metal - is relatively expensive roofing material, which has a decent weight, due to which, prior to installation, the roof frame to be strengthened. Usually the repair of the roofing material is required in cases where mistakes were made and inaccuracies during the installation of metal, but it can also become loose fasteners due to mechanical damage.

• Reconstruction of the roof of metal

And now look at each of these cases in more detail:

• Cause loosening of the fasteners may be the use of low-quality screws. They certainly can pull up, but it is better still to replace screws for higher quality.
• Cracks and chips formed in the material can be eliminated by means of special materials for roof repair. If formed on the metal tile scratches, enclosure, apply their special anti-corrosion paint, and the gaps and leaks can be completely sealed with silicone designed specifically for roofing materials. The resulting seal the through hole of the steel patch using a soldering iron.
• Between sheets of tiles and ridge may form a gap, which eventually will leak. This can occur due to improper device roofing pie, and when using the film is not of sufficient quality, which has a low permeability. To resolve this problem, you must replace a film on Superdiffuzionnaya membrane. Or, alternatively, one can use the roofing sealant, suitable for any of the metal roofing.

How to repair the roof rail

Along with roofs of slate previously in demand and roof, galvanized iron sheet covered. But, with time, they also have to be repaired. First, on the galvanized roof there is rust, which eventually will leak.

What is to be done? A yield is as follows: place covered with rust, kerosene must first rinse, then wash with water. Next - thoroughly clean the damaged area with sandpaper, paint it with linseed oil. When linseed oil dries, cover this place with primer and let it dry thoroughly. Only after that it will be possible to cover the damaged area with an oil paint, the color of which should match the color of the roofing material.

Judging by the experience of those who repaired the roof of the galvanizing, and its quality can be fairly easy to fix using an ordinary soldering iron. At the same time on all the work you will spend not so much time (about an hour). Consider the sequence of actions that will need to make in order to solder the damaged section of the roof rail:

• Accurate adjustment of roofing sheets together.
• Purification of the connection points of sheets with zinc chloride.
• Cut a patch from an identical material, whose size is slightly larger (about 5-10 cm) of the damaged surface.
• The hot soldering wipe ammonia to put the soldering iron on the surface of the solder sheets (the edges) which would be necessary to solder.
• After cooling down, saw off the excess solder with a file on the edges of the roofing material.
• If you yourself have decided to prepare a zinc chloride, remember that zinc pieces should be placed in a container of acid, but not vice versa! Otherwise, explosion may occur, and as a result - you get burns on your skin!

Sometimes it can come into disrepair large portion of the roof rail made of galvanized iron. In this case, an effective method is to replace the damaged sheet of roofing material as a whole. To avoid corrosion of the material can be treated with its special waterproof paint.

How to repair the roof of natural tile

It is sad but natural tiles from time to time, too, needs to be repaired. By what reason is this happening? The roof tiles of the kind can be formed cracks and chips, especially where the docking material with a chimney, or the antenna on the roof overhang. It is a completely natural process, which is the result of uneven contraction and expansion of the material pieces at the ambient temperature and climatic influences.

Leakage in most cases, is the result of destruction of the cement, which connects the parts of tile or tiles of tile falling joints. Experts believe that this is due to the fact that the roof frame tolerate deformation due to the influence of environmental processes (temperature differences, superheat and subcooling of the roof). Therefore, the way out is to strengthen the framework of your holiday structure of the roof. To do this, you need to knock out the rafter boards, which have a width of 16-18 cm and a thickness of about 38-40 centimeters, they need to connect several rafters. Old ruined cement should be removed and make a new solution consisting of hemp linen, two parts fine sand and one part lime.

This prepared solution should lie between the tiles from the attic. And if you need to saw the tiles shingles, you will need to pre-soak it in water for days.

As in the previous case, the flow of roofing material usually occurs where a roof abuts a TV antenna or to a chimney pipe. Consequently, in those places where the material adjacent to these elements, it is necessary to make a protective liner, which is made of sheet steel. By this construction, the water will flow down without hindrance to the roof, and further through the tube will fall into the gutter.

Thanks to the advice offered in this article, you will be able to effortlessly make repairs to your roof garden houses. As you know, in case of damage the roofing material you can either apply the patch on the damaged area, or replace one or more sheets to the new roofing sheets. Often, however, it also happens that the roof is completely comes into disrepair, and in its entirety have to be dismantled and replaced by a new one.