TILE ROOF OR CEILING. First the roof deck or the top of the house, which is built to protect people living in the home of the weather. This is very tough as it gets all the blows of the day are the sun, rain, heat, cold and wind throughout the year. Also sometimes get the lightning, a bush or branch, snow, etc … As we have said the roof is exposed to all the dangers of the day. The roofs do not let the water through its water resistance, it is also waterproof and do not let it pose the heat or cold. Now, a new roof can last 20 years or so, this depends on the type of roof that is intended to use. The roof is one that defines the type that owns the building according to the materials and how to use the most common are the types, flat and steep. The constitution of a deck depends on the place where the home or the place to be built, because if we get in the city as roofing materials tile: clay, fiber cement, zinc, plastic, fiber synthetic, glass etc. and in rural areas are roofing materials such as straw, palm leaves, bamboo split in the form of canals and wooden board. To make the construction of decks is important to note the mooring system and the type of material used to cover it is as strong as possible, so materials should be used as light as possible. If you are going to build a roof in areas where heavy rains are recommended pending or large inclinations, so that rain water falling faster than the cover. The most common types of roofs are: single side, two waters, three waters, and hipped roofs in the form of folded mountains. Others, like the pavilion roofs, mansard roofs and broken or composite decking, these alone are urban or landscape importance.
The parts of a roof are: Frame or frame: This is the part formed by elements of wood or steel in some cases (as fences), which is charged with supporting its own weight and that of the roof or properly, as well external forces such as wind and people who get on the roof to make repairs. Roof or deck: A group of elements is adjusted to the structure can be made of straw, clay tiles, tiles of zinc, fiber cement tile, etc. In certain cases must be completed with a waterproof coat. Annexes to complete the roof. They are parts of the casing made of the same material used to make the auctions. Among them are Límatelas, counters, skylights corner. The slopes of the roofs. Are the slopes or inclinations with roofs are built to easily expel the water and its magnitude depends on the material used as cover. The slopes that are more used in our environment are:
- Between 20% and 27% for zinc-coated fiber cement shingles.
- Between 30% and 60% for different types of ceramic tiles.
- Between 50% and 80% for straw or palm roofs.
TIMBER BUILT WITH COVERS. The wood used for roofing can be chunky or sawn wood and the type most used is the covers to sills and beams and pine for the splint. Other woods used are caimito, smelly, oil and carob. In the building of structures or roof racks, use good quality wood must be visually examined to discover you do not have any kind of damage such as warping, arched, curled, bent, knots, podredura, cracks, attack insects and that the dimensions are those specified in escudaría flawlessly. If the wood is not obtained free from insects, to prevent insect attack must be immunized with a commercial product that guarantees a total immunization, or with copper sulfate dissolved in water but it gives a greenish color to the wood. Not all woods are left and I embrace immunization is one of them.