Shingles. Fix installation error.
Shingles or, as it is called - soft roofing is soft roofing material, based on the glass fiber layer impregnated on both sides with bitumen. On the upper side is covered with tiles Coating - consisting of a colored stone granules, imparting a textured surface of the roof and memorable appearance. Bottom hand, tiles coated with self-adhesive bitumen-polymer layer, which provides a secure fit for the special tile substrate.
Choosing the type of roof covering for their future home must take into account many factors, such as - the building architecture and design features of the roof.
What is so attractive shingles developers?
Among the main advantages of a soft roof can be identified:
- Easy to install shingles - allows you to work on laying a soft roof alone;
- High durability of shingles and its resistance to sunlight;
- Excellent sound insulation properties - allow this type of roof effectively damp impact sounds of rain on the roof;
- Shingles, unlike other materials - for example, metal, minimizes waste material during installation, and it is often the only solution for the roofing complex configuration;
- The relative ease of shingles allows to build lightweight truss system.
But the apparent ease of installation conceals, perhaps, the main disadvantage of a soft roof - the need careful substrate preparation for laying a surface and adherence stacking technology soft roof.
As the experience of the participants forumhouse.ru it is from the preliminary preparation of the base will depend on how your roof will behave in the future.
Heated discussion of roof systems devices, our forum users are here .
mounting Features
Shingles, like the roof of any other kind, is the only visible part of the iceberg called - roofing pie. In most cases, the shingles are placed on a base made of OSB-boards.
Use as OSB plates for facade can be read in this section our forum.
The foundation lies on the sheathing and rafters, between which is laid a layer of insulation. Prior to mounting on a flat roof with a soft and dry substrates laid carpet backing.
If the slope of the roof is more than 18 degrees, carpet backing necessary to lay only in areas with an increased risk of leaks - along the eaves eaves and valleys. If the angle of the roof is less, carpet underlay must be laid across the slope of the roof - from the bottom up. Thus an overlap between the different parts of the carpet backing must be less than 100 mm. overlapping space sealed with mastic asphalt, and the carpet backing attached to the base with galvanized nails.
Galina (Member FORUMHOUSE):
- Apparently began installation of a roof at a low temperature, while the carpet was stretched and then rapidly warmed and expanded material, because of this, on the roof there were waves.In order to fix this kind of problem, you can try in places strong swellings locally shingles detach and try to pull up the carpet.
On these slopes is better not to put the carpet backing to the entire plane. Choosing the material should be thicker, then these will not be visible seams and will not swell.
For convenience, OSB - boards our forumchanin (forum name Kashnikov) Recommends stacking them up and down.
OSB is necessary to fasten vrazbezhku sheets, leaving therebetween a gap of 2-3 mm. The gap between the sheets needs to expand when temperature drops.
To the article dedicated to the peculiarities of a soft roof installation can be found at this link.
interserviceru (Member FORUMHOUSE):
- On tiles brought days. Found that if you put the shingles on the arm, then under its own weight it bends and cracks. As I understand it, it can not be put on the roof.
So what tiles on the submitted photo marriage?
In this case, the answer is worthy manufacturer:
- Since this two-layer tile, then with a strong bend at the joint between the two layers can form cracks. This is due to the fact that one of the layers is exposed to a strong stretching during the bending - logically - the bottom layer is compressed, the upper is stretched stronger lower. Also note that when bent cracks begin exactly at the point of superposition of two layers. After installation, the sun, everything will be delayed and no cracks will not.
It should be remembered that the soft roof, and any manufacturer is not recommended to expose too strong inflection, for example, put pack with tiles on the roof skate.
Installation of shingles is recommended to start from the middle of the bottom edge of the roof. First, you need to lay a rectangular cornice tiles - on the edge of the eaves of the roof, and only then lift the tiles row by row up.
stacking procedure as follows:
- First, the reverse side of tile remove the protective film and then placed it in place. In place of shingles nailed using the galvanized nails so that the nail heads hidden under the top layer of tiles. Laying tile series produced so that the top closing cap shingle bottom row of nails.
- Final fixing soft roof comes from exposure to sunlight. When heating the bituminous base and tiles are glued together, and a base. If the installation of tiles produced in the cold season, it is recommended to carry out heating of the building tiles hairdryer to seal the joints.
Installation of shingles is prohibited to carry out on wet or insufficiently dry basis! Since the packed bed under moisture can not evaporate, and subsequently the roof begins to decay within.
The importance of strict adherence to the installation instructions shingles well demonstrates the personal experience of our forumchanin Anatoly (forum name Anar).
Since the construction of its frame house he covered on forumhouse.ruThen our user (forum name Nikolaputa) Time observed that the construction team hammered nails with impaired mounting technology.
Read the topic about the construction of a frame house can behere.
Nikolaputa(Member FORUMHOUSE):
- Nails had to beat the hexagon, thereby punching the bottom row of tiles.
The instructions for installation of a soft roof tiles are given a place of penetration, they have to break just at the site of bonding.
Denis(Member FORUMHOUSE):
– In places Doboj nails, the top will be lifted shingles, nails and take their rightful places. Then the tiles will be warmed up and pressed against the lower shingles. Thus, once we kill 2 birds with one stone: to improve the situation with nails and glue the shingles until the spring.
Another common error in the installation of shingles is a noticeable eye color difference pattern soft roof.
To avoid this error, before laying shingles, you need to mix shingles taken from several different packs. In the case of laying soft tile at a temperature below + 5 ° C, with packing tiles, before installation must be kept in a room with heat.
So, listening to the advice of our members of the forum and reading our materials, you will be able to avoid most of the errors related to the installation of such a wonderful roofing material like - shingles!
Learn all about the installation of a soft roof, you can in this section our forum. it video It will help you to choose a roofing material. And read our THE VIDEO, You can clearly trace the details of the process of laying shingles.
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