Roofing materials: copper roof

None of the builders and homeowners will not now argue that the copper - an elite material. Exclusivity of copper applied to the roof ensure its durability and reliability.

Relatively high cost of copper roof is justified by all her other qualities, making it one of the most popular in today's building materials market. The service life of a copper roof can be like 100 years, and 1000, and everything depends only on the operating conditions of the roof and the quality of the roof system. In Europe, the famous ancient buildings built XI-XII centuries, with the preserved remains of the original copper roof, and the ancient Roman and Egyptian counterparts copper roof still found during excavations of ancient cities in virtually intact - and that says a lot.

Without any exaggeration we can say that in itself copper as the material becomes as the years only get better. To this end, it covers the patina (a special oxide), which protects copper not only from the harmful effects of precipitation, but also from many kinds of mechanical action (strikes hail of small meteorites and others, including the fall of the sheet of roofing on the ground). Of course, varies with age and color, originally a golden yellow, it is dark with time, becoming almost black, and a dozen or so years, finally gets his final famous turquoise-green.

Individuality of the building, covered with a copper roof, no one in doubt, and today is a quality reinforced by the fact that modern technologies of production of copper roofing sheet helped to create tiled plates of any shape and configuration. With their help, it became possible to perform the roof completely different styles, ranging from the imitation of ancient times, and ending with the modern style. But at the same time we must remember that to save the waterproofing qualities of a roof copper roof tiles should be laid on slopes with a slope of not less than 35 degrees, otherwise you may have problems with waterproofing underlay space. There are also options with laying copper coating on the roof with a slope of slope 12 degrees, but they must be equipped with additional waterproofing system

The main elements of a copper roof can be manufactured in very different ways. The main option - tile, but have a certain popularity and sheet coating, and roll, and this is primarily due to the necessity of using copper in such complex roofs, on which her pocketbook in the form of shingles to supply very difficult. Thanks to the use of modern technologies application of oxidized copper coating to facilitate and accelerate so that the production of artificially aged material has reached a whole new level, which includes obtaining the customer the most coveted for its color scheme from the earliest days of operation of the roof. Technologically chemically treated copper is completely neutral and does not react to the environment is not destroyed by corrosion, and most importantly - do not emit any volatile fractions, which automatically gives it a status as one of the most environmentally friendly coatings.

Copper roofing is almost never a need for any care, and the life of the entire roof structure of the copper depends only on the quality of installation and properly arranged drainage system. Mount technology is simple, but requires skill in conducting its roofers. In addition to roofing copper plates can be used as a front facing, but in this case, the front plate must be thicker than the roof. Go to accessories for roofs that are made of copper, may also include and gutters that usually are much longer than that made from conventional materials. Very popular also and copper snow guard as well as a decorative element of the copper can be produced and caps on chimneys, the so-called "flyugarki.

Roll roofing production technology of copper to avoid placing the entire area of ​​the roof of numerous mounting holes as a roofing frame is attached, as a rule, only the first sheet, but the others are adjacent to each other by double-fold. As an option - samozaschelkivayuschiysya rebate that applies today in many other types of modern roofing. Number of joints, which carries a possible leak, you can also reduce the profiling of rolled metal on-site installation by making the panel the desired length during installation.

Seam copper roof is a kind of today's most popular for three main reasons. Firstly, it is a good aesthetic component, which determines the classical style copper roof as the most relevant, regardless of any trends in contemporary architectural fashion, and in all its aspects in the distant future. Second, the seam fastener has proved to be the best way, and the reliability of such attachment is difficult to single out something else. But the third reason is quite rare and highly successful quality-price ratio, and experience shows that use copper roof as we have in the country and abroad, the money spent on this wonderful in all its qualities, the roof, pay off eventually in full .

Source: kvartirakrasivo.ru

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