There are countless roofing materials available today. For every taste and budget. Among them special place allocated to soft tiles. If you prefer this coating and decide to decorate it on your roof soft roof, then be sure to read the basic rules for its installation. But before that, think about installing a roof under a soft roof. After all, this process is very important and requires a special attitude towards yourself.
Bituminous (soft) shingles appeared about 30 years ago. Subsequently, this roofing material gained wide popularity. Produce soft tiles for the roof and lining for it from raw materials such as non-woven polyester or fiberglass. The latter is impregnated using a bitumen-based composition. Polyester, unlike fiberglass, has greater tensile strength. It should be used in areas where there is a large load on the roof. These are skates, valleys and different nodes adjacencies.
Above flexible tiles There is a topping that consists of basalt granules or mineral chips. At the bottom of the material there is a self-adhesive layer made on the basis of bitumen. It also contains a plastic film, which must be removed during operation. To prevent individual sheets from sticking together while the tiles are stored in your home, manufacturers refuse to attach a protective film and sprinkle its lower surface with sand.
Soft tiles are produced in plates. They have a length of up to 1 meter, a width of 0.3-0.45 meters, and a thickness of 3-5 millimeters. Different manufacturers have different colors and shades of material. The price of the material, which is produced on the basis of fiberglass, will be much lower than that of tiles reinforced with polyester. Thus, last option It is more advisable to buy to form the main coating if the level of strength does not matter.
It will be possible to install a soft roof if the slope of the roof under the soft roof is at least 11-12 degrees. If the slope is greater, rainwater will stagnate on the surface. And this will cause the destruction of the structure. When laying bitumen shingles, the roof shape can be any, even the most complex design. Finished roof takes the shape of a rectangle or oval. The form of a hexagon or any other geometric figure is possible.
When working with soft tiles, adhere to certain working conditions:
Laying bitumen shingles, like installing other roofing materials, begins with preparatory work.
The base for soft tiles must be solid and even, since the material is not only glued to it, but also nailed:
When preparing a roof for a soft roof, always leave air gap. Remember that it should be made large enough. Its dimensions must be at least 50 millimeters. Position the exhaust vent higher. And at the bottom of the roof make a hole for air flow.
Ventilation gaps will ensure a long service life of soft tiles. They are required because they perform many functions:
Be sure to arrange a lining layer under the flexible tiles:
After preparing the base for the soft roof and installing the underlayment, start making a special sheathing. It consists of beams and boards, which should be located perpendicular to the rafter joists. The sheathing will act as a base on which workers attach flexible tiles.
When laying the sheathing, adhere to the following requirements:
To make a lathing for laying a soft roof, prepare a material that necessarily meets the established quality standards:
Not only the roofing material is responsible for the quality of the roof. This function lies entirely on the sheathing. Therefore, when making sheathing for soft tiles, follow these recommendations:
Carry out the work in the following sequence:
Thus, soft roofing has many fans today. The quality of its flooring and use will directly depend on the quality of roof preparation, the correct creation of ventilation gaps and the laying of the underlayment. But the most great importance has sheathing arrangement. Pay due attention to its design, selection of high-quality material and study of all the nuances of the work.
Soft roofing ideally adapts to any geometric features of the roof. This roof covering is popular and in demand due to a significant number of advantages, and in addition, soft roofing is very affordable. To obtain a high-quality and durable coating using a soft roof, it is necessary to perform a series of mandatory conditions, the main of which are the proper installation of the frame, sheathing and roofing pie, as well as compliance step-by-step technology all installation work.
Installation of any base begins with the device frame structure. The features of soft roofing require the implementation of a high-quality roofing cake, the basis of which is insulation.
Despite a large number of options for thermal insulation, the most successful is to place the insulation between the rafter system. The standard dimensions of heat-insulating boards are sixty centimeters. Based on these indicators, the frame of the truss structure should be constructed.
Basic requirements for the material used:
To obtain a continuous coating, wooden base mounted in two layers. Such coverage should be deprived sharp corners and creases, which minimizes kinks and friction of the soft roofing covering.
To execute correct device On the roof, the lumber is placed in trays upward, which allows the seeping moisture to flow down and not through the joints into the under-roof space.
Standard sheathing pitch for soft roofing depends on several factors, the main ones being roof slope, wind strength and degree of windage of the roofing material. As a rule, it is 40-60 cm.
Plywood and OSB is optimal material for sheathing under flexible tiles. It is multi-layered, moisture-resistant and flexible, which provides high level functionality and long service life.
It is most advisable to use FSF plywood made of coniferous wood treated with fire-resistant and antiseptic compounds.
Features of making a solid base for flexible tiles:
Learn more about installing a soft roof from the video.
Let's sum it up
After manufacturers of soft roofs made some kind of revolution, where roofing felt ceased to be a dominant product, the popularity of bituminous materials began to gradually grow. I would like to note that soft coverings diverged in several directions at once and began to strengthen themselves in their niches. Some manufacturers changed the structure of roofing felt, added modifiers, and obtained completely new roll materials, but others took a completely different path, creating bitumen shingles. Lathing made of lumber for a soft roof is distinguished by its appearance and structure; in this article I will try to tell you as much as possible about it.
As a rule, rafter systems are created from conventional lumber. There are boards and beams here. Nails or bolts are often used as fasteners; self-tapping screws are less common. In the construction industry, there are only 2 types of lathing:
Lathing for flooring soft material can be created with some gaps. In some situations, the sheathing step for flexible tiles can reach up to 50 centimeters. After such a system is created, OSB products or moisture-resistant plywood are laid on top of it.
It's no secret that almost all sheathing is made of wood. When purchasing such a product, it is important to pay attention to small details.
Now let's figure out which material to give preference to creating a flat surface. I want to discuss moisture-resistant plywood and OSB material.
Oriented particle board has good performance: it is light, durable and costs quite little. But along with such qualities, there is the question of its environmental friendliness and high hygroscopicity. Such problems can be corrected only with high-quality isolation of this product from the main elements of the rafter system.
As for moisture-resistant plywood, experienced developers speak extremely positively about it. After installing the roofing pie, no critical deformations were noticed in this material; in addition, the product tolerates a humid environment well. At first, I began to think that this was an ideal material, until my fellow roofers shared the terrible secret of this material. The fact is that during operation it begins to emit harmful substances and in case of fire it can maintain combustion for a long time. 
As you know, under the plywood there is a board, which is a kind of base for this material. Such wood can sometimes be used as independent sheathing. To do this, the boards are placed almost continuously, but there are gaps of 2-3 millimeters between them. This method creation is not recommended for creating sheathing on residential buildings, but as a alternative option It is quite suitable for an outbuilding. It is worth noting that lumber is more expensive than plywood boards and is subject to faster rotting.
If you still prefer to use boards as the main material for lathing, then I advise you to take a closer look at calibrated products. Thanks to them, you can create an almost perfectly flat surface and, to remove all unevenness, lay a lining material on top of the boards. When purchasing wood, always give preference to coniferous species. They are harder and stronger, therefore, can withstand increased load.
Whichever way you look at it construction industry, are present everywhere here regulations and installation and safety regulations. Without them, a person simply would not be able to build anything, and moreover, he would risk his life when going to work.
The sheathing for bitumen shingles must meet the following requirements:
IMPORTANT: Bituminous shingles are distinguished by their capriciousness and even the slightest unevenness may later turn out to be main reason leaks.
Any construction field has its own nuances. Somewhere you have to work special tool, and install somewhere additional elements. When installing a roof made of bitumen shingles, you have to deal with the need to install a drip line. To explain it in a nutshell, this is a sheathing element that protects eaves overhangs from the negative effects of precipitation.
The dropper has a curved shape, which directly depends on the slope of the slope itself. As a rule, the optimal bend lies in the range from 100 to 130 degrees. This element is located at the very edge of the roof slope, and its presence allows the rolling liquid to flow directly into the gutter. In addition to its direct functional purpose, the drip edge adds some elegance to the soft roof.
When creating a drip tray on a soft roof, it is very important to remember the following nuances:
If you don’t know how to install a drip with your own hands, then after reading the technology of its design, I hope no questions will arise.
You can purchase a ready-made drip pipe at any construction market.
The category of materials referred to as soft roofing includes several commonly used coatings. This is both roofing felt and soft bitumen shingles, and several types of surface-surfaced roll materials. They all differ from each other in appearance and characteristics, but their production is based on one component - modified bitumen. It is this that gives roofing coverings that very flexibility and softness. The material itself does not have a rigid shape, so a strong and rigid sheathing is needed under it, which will withstand external loads. In this case, the soft roof will only provide protective and decorative properties.
If we talk about the sheathing in general, then it comes in two types: sparse and solid. The first is assembled from boards or bars, between which gaps are left or, as they are also called, installation steps. The second is a continuous flooring without gaps. For soft roofing, it is the second option that is used, because when laid on a loose sheathing, soft roofing materials will sag between its elements.
A continuous sheathing is made under the soft roof, otherwise the material will sag in the cracks between the boards
Sheets of moisture-resistant plywood, OSB boards and boards are used as flooring for continuous sheathing. The latter must be either edged or tongue-and-groove coniferous species wood As for moisture-resistant plywood, it must be chosen correctly by brand, because there are two positions on the market with this name:
For continuous sheathing, FSF is suitable. This material is made from several layers of veneer (from 3 to 21), which are glued together with a special composition based on phenol-formaldehyde resins. It should be added that in the production process of FSF plywood, each layer is first treated with bakelite varnish, so the material has high strength and water resistance.
As for OSB, for the lathing you also need to choose a waterproof modification, i.e. grades OSB-3 and OSB-4. The latter is intended for structures that are subjected to maximum loads at high humidity air, so it is quite expensive. For roofs, you can use OSB-3 plywood, which is not inferior in moisture resistance to the fourth model.
When assembling the flooring, you can leave a small gap between the elements, the size of which should not exceed 1 cm. It is called compensation because it will compensate for the expansion of wooden products due to changes in humidity and temperature.
The sheathing for a soft roof can be single or double. In the first case, boards or panels are laid directly along the rafters. In the second, a sparse sheathing is first installed, and a solid one is installed on top of it. The second option is preferable because there is space between the two layers, which is used for ventilation of the roof. And this makes it possible to remove moist air vapors that rise from the interior of the house. It is they that on uninsulated roofs cause the formation of ice and condensation on the rafter system.
But this is not the only criterion for choosing double flooring. Much will depend on the angle of the roof slopes.
In principle, you can increase the pitch of the bottom sheathing up to 100 cm, depending on the size of the lumber used for it. For example, if a board 40 mm thick and 120 mm wide was used for this. The smaller the cross-section, the smaller the pitch, and vice versa. For each material, its own step is selected relative to its thickness.
Taking into account the above-mentioned relationships between the spacing of the sheathing elements and their thickness, it is possible to make quite exact calculation this design. To do this, you will have to first take the dimensions of the roof itself, which are indicated in the building drawing. And if the roof is a complex multi-level and multi-slope structure, then it needs to be divided into simple geometric figures. It is on their basis that the total roof area is calculated.
In this case, you will have to take into account the angle of inclination of each slope, because the smaller the angle, the greater the loads the sheathing system is subjected to. This means that you will either have to reduce the spacing of the boards or bars, or increase the thickness of the slab and sheet flooring. Therefore, to simplify calculations when determining the total roof area, correction factors are used. For example, when the slope is inclined at 35°, a multiplying factor of 1.221 is used.
With the calculation of a continuous sheathing, the situation is simpler, because it covers the entire area of the slopes. That is, its area will be equal to the area of the roof. Let's look at an example of calculating the number of plywood sheets for a slope with an area of 50 m².
In the construction business, when calculating the amount of building materials, a small reserve is made in the range of 5–10%. Here we need to do the same, so the final result is 23–24 sheets.
The number of OSB boards is calculated in exactly the same way. But with boards it’s a little more complicated. First of all, you need to calculate the area of one selected board. The length of edged boards varies from 1 to 6.5 m in increments of 0.25 m. Width ranges from 75–275 mm in increments of 25 mm.
Let’s say a board 3 m long and 0.1 m wide is used for the sheathing:
For this calculation, the area of the slope itself is not required. The length of the roof and its height are required, that is, the distance from the overhang to the ridge.
Regardless of whether one- or two-layer sheathing is used on the roof, the main requirement for the structure is a smooth and durable surface without defects and flaws in lumber. That is why when using boards, calibrated material is selected.
According to construction canons, the rafter system is aligned along the slopes in one plane, so you need to be sure that the ends rafter legs already exhibited. This means that we can assume that the boards, plywood or OSB boards being laid will lie in the same plane.
The sheathing elements must be joined along the rafters. A board protruding beyond the rafters will not provide strength when installing roofing material
You need to start installation from the cornice, or more precisely, from the lower ends of the stops. The boards are selected in length so that two adjacent elements are joined on one rafter beam. If this fails, you will have to trim them, which will increase the amount of waste. The same goes for sheets and slabs.
The boards are laid with a small gap of 1 cm and attached to the rafters with nails or self-tapping screws. It is better to fasten from the end side. If screws or nails are installed according to front side, then their caps must be driven into the body of the lumber to a depth of 0.5 mm. In this case, on each rafter, two fasteners must be nailed to the board - one on each edge.
Plywood sheets or OSB boards on the roof as a continuous sheathing should be laid staggered with an offset of a third or half of the panel
Concerning flat materials for sheathing, they are placed offset relative to each other by a third or half a sheet. This is done so that the loads acting on the continuous sheathing are evenly distributed over its entire surface. In this way, the panels are laid perpendicular to the rafters. Plywood with dimensions of 1.5x2.5 m can be installed along the rafters. At the same time, it will be necessary to take into account that sheet material cannot bear heavy loads, so at least three rafter legs must fall under it: one exactly in the middle and two at the edges. But here, too, you will have to take into account that two adjacent plywood sheets must be joined on one rafter. A gap between them (3–5 mm) is mandatory.
Plywood and OSB are fastened with galvanized self-tapping screws or ruff nails around the perimeter every 10–15 cm and along the entire plane along the rafters in a checkerboard pattern. These are the ones you need to use fasteners, because they can withstand stresses that arise in OSB boards or plywood sheets due to changes in humidity and temperature.
The procedure for laying flat panels on a discharged sheathing:
The first sheet of continuous sheathing is laid strictly along the edge of the rafter leg
The bottom row is laid with the panels joining on the rafters
The second row of continuous sheathing begins with half of the slab, so that the following elements are attached at intervals from the first row
In principle, there are no serious differences from the above installation technology No. Simply a solid structure is laid on boards, which are placed on the rafters with a certain distance between the rows. No boards are used to create a continuous flooring. Plywood or OSB is being installed. At the same time, all the above-described requirements are preserved both in terms of the installation scheme of the panels and in the method of their fastening.
To insulate the roof, it is necessary to lay thermal insulation material between the rafters. From the outside attic space it closes vapor barrier membrane, and from the side of the sheathing - waterproofing film. You cannot immediately lay the sheathing and make flooring from OSB boards or plywood sheets. Need to create ventilation duct, which will remove moist air vapor from under the roof space. Therefore, bars with a cross section of 50x50 mm are laid along the rafters. This is the counter-lattice, and the space between the waterproofing and the solid flooring is the ventilation gap.
The process of assembling an insulated roof structure consists of the following steps.
The insulation is placed in the space between the rafter joists so that there are not even minimal gaps left
The vapor barrier film is laid with an overlap and secured with staples
To create a ventilation gap, bars are attached along the rafters, onto which horizontal sheathing is laid.
Typically, this design is used if there is no sparse sheathing on the roof, or it is assembled from boards 20–25 mm thick. Such a gap will not be sufficient to effectively remove moist air.
Continuous sheathing under soft roofing material is the only way to guarantee the quality of the final result. Minimum gaps will not reduce it, but fulfilling the basic requirement - the formation of a flat and durable surface - will create conditions under which the soft roof will last its warranty period.
Features of installation of flexible tiles:
minimum slope roofing, in which the use of flexible tiles is allowed - 1:5 (11.3 degrees) (Fig. 1).
Climatic features of installation:
In the case of installing a roof made of flexible tiles at temperatures below +5 ° C, packages with tiles should be stored in a warm room before installation. It is allowed to use a hot air gun during installation.
For the installation of flexible tiles, winter is really not best time, because according to the manufacturers’ recommendations, this material cannot be laid at temperatures below +5 degrees. C. The fact is that the shingle (a sheet with 3-4 “tiles”) is attached to wooden base and a lining carpet spread over its surface using nails and a self-adhesive layer, which is available on back side shingles To tightly glue the shingles to the base and shingles of adjacent rows, ensuring the tightness of the coating, it is necessary Sun rays, which gradually “melt” the self-adhesive layer. And, alas, there is not enough sun in winter.
On the other hand, in recent years, winter in middle lane Russia is only occasionally cold. In addition, in sub-zero temperatures, you can carry out preparatory work for a flexible roof - install a rafter system, a continuous wood flooring, insulate the roof, vapor and waterproofing, not forgetting to protect the roof structure from snow, using durable polyethylene film or ordinary roofing felt. In the spring, without wasting precious time, lay flexible tiles, having first removed the film or roofing felt and laid the lining carpet.
If there is a strong need, you can install a flexible roof even in cold weather. To do this, a wooden or metal structure, covered specially for scaffolding noise-proof film or polyethylene film (the so-called “warmhouse”). From the inside, the “second roof” is heated by electric or diesel heat guns, as a result of which the required positive temperature is achieved. It is worth adding that the “greenhouse” covering the entire house makes it possible to carry out not only roofing, but also, for example, plastering work on the facade, which also requires heat. “Teplyak” is a complex engineering structure: it must be resistant to wind and snow loads, and also convenient for moving people and building materials.
Main stages of roof installation
1) Preparing the base
Start installing the roof by preparing the base. As a base for flexible tiles, a material with a continuous flat surface, to which fastening with nails is possible. OSB, moisture-resistant plywood or tongue-and-groove plywood can be used as a base, edged board. The moisture content of the base material should not exceed 20% of dry weight. The joints of the boards must be placed at the support locations, and the length of the boards must be at least two spans between the supports. It is necessary to take into account the expansion of the boards caused by fluctuations in humidity and temperature, leaving sufficient space between the boards.
Thickness of boards and plywood at different sizes rafter pitch (determined by design calculation) with a snow load of 1.8 kN/sq.m., point load of 1.0 kN
| Rafter pitch | Board thickness | Plywood thickness |
| (mm) | (mm) | (mm) |
| 600 | 20 | 12 |
| 900 | 23 | 18 |
| 1200 | 30 | 21 |
2) Ventilation gap arrangement
The air gap should be large enough (at least 50 mm), the exhaust hole should be located as high as possible, and the holes for air flow, respectively, in the lower part of the roof.
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Ventilation is necessary for:
Remember, proper ventilation is the key to a long service life of the roof!
3) Installation of the lining layer
As a reinforcing lining layer under flexible tiles, roofing material Ruflex K-EL 60/2200 or rolled roofing insulating material Ruflex is used over the entire roof area. The lining layer is installed in the direction from bottom to top parallel to the eaves of the roof with an overlap of at least 10 cm, the edges are fixed with nails at intervals of 20 cm, the seams are sealed with K-36 glue (Fig. 3).
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If the roof slope is more than 1:3 (18 degrees), it is possible to lay lining material only on the roof ridges, in the valleys, on the eaves overhangs and in the end parts of the roof, in places where penetrations through the roof (around chimneys, in places where the roof joins vertical walls, around skylights) (Fig. 4).
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Note: Depending on the method of fastening the drainage system, it may be necessary to install brackets for laying the lining layer.
4) Installation of metal curtain rods
To protect the edges of the sheathing on the eaves overhangs from rain moisture, mount metal eaves strips (droppers) with an overlap of min 2 cm on top of the lining carpet. They are nailed in a zigzag manner with roofing nails in increments of 100 mm (Fig. 5).
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5) Installation of metal gable strips
To protect the edge of the sheathing, pediment strips with an overlap of min 2 cm are mounted on the end parts of the roof. They are nailed in a zigzag manner with roofing nails in increments of 100 mm (Fig. 6).
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6) Installation of valley carpet
To increase water resistance in valleys, a RUFLEX SUPER PINTARI valley carpet is laid on top of the lining layer, matching the color of the roofing tiles. The edges are fixed with roofing nails at intervals of 100 mm (Fig. 7).
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7) Installation of eaves tiles
Next, install self-adhesive eaves tiles along the eaves overhang, having first removed the protective film from its lower surface. The eaves tiles are laid joint to joint, stepping back upward from the point of inflection. cornice strip 10-20 mm. The eaves tiles are nailed near the perforation points, followed by covering the fastening points with ordinary tiles (Fig. 8).
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8.1) Installation of ordinary tiles
To avoid color deviations, use roofing tiles mixed from 4-5 packages. Laying ordinary tiles should begin from the center of the eaves overhang in the direction of the end parts of the roof (Fig. 9).
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Glue the tiles, having first removed the protective film from its lower part (Fig. 10), (after this, individual tiles cannot be stacked on top of each other) and nail each with four nails just above the tile groove line (20-30 mm). If the roof slope is more than 1:1 (45 degrees), then each tile must be secured with six nails (see Table 1).
Table 1. Consumption of roofing nails.
Lay the first row of tiles so that its lower edge is located no higher than 1 cm from the lower edge of the eaves tiles (Fig. 11), and the “petals” cover the joints of the eaves tiles.
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Install subsequent rows so that the ends of the “petals” of the tiles are at the same level or higher than the cutouts of the tiles of the previous row.
On the end parts of the roof, cut the tiles along the edge and glue them with K-36 glue to a width of at least 10 cm (Fig. 12).
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In valleys, cut the tiles so that at the bottom of the valley there remains open lane RUFLEX SUPER PINTARI is about 15 cm wide (Fig. 13).
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Glue the edges of the tiles along the cut line to a width of at least 10 cm with K-36 glue. When cutting, place plywood under the tiles to avoid damaging the bottom layer of the roofing carpet.
8.2) Installation of "Rocky" type tiles
Laying of ordinary tiles should begin from the center of the eaves overhang in the direction of the end parts of the roof and the ridge. Lay the first row so that the “petals” of the row tiles cover the joints and the perforation line of the eaves tiles. Lay the next row in such a way that the junction of the lower shingles is located in the center of the medium-sized lobe of the installed shingle (Fig. 14). Nail each row of tiles with four nails to the base just above the groove of the tile (20-30 mm) in the middle so that the heads of the nails are covered by the “petals” of the next row of tiles.
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Note: Don't forget to remove the protective film from the shingles.
9) Installation of ridge tiles
Ridge tiles (0.25 x 0.33 m) are obtained by dividing the eaves tiles into 3 parts at the perforation points. Mount the ridge tiles on the roof ridge with the short side parallel to the ridge, having first removed the film. Nail with four nails (2 on each side) so that the nails are under the next tile overlapped with a 5 cm overlap (Fig. 15).
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10) Installation of roof joints
Passages through the roof of small diameter (antennas, etc.) are made using rubber seals. Chimneys and other pipes exposed to heat must be insulated. When installing flexible tiles near chimneys (Fig. 16) or other penetrations along the perimeter of the pipe-roof connection, nail a 50*50 mm triangular strip. Further around chimney install Ruflex K-EL 60/2200 or Ruflex underlay carpet, coat the overlaps with K-36 glue. Then roofing tiles start on vertical surface and glue with K-36 glue. Cover the perimeter of the pipe with a SUPER PINTARI strip using a continuous layer of K-36 glue so that the top of the pipe is covered with a strip of at least 30 cm, and on the slope - at least 20 cm. Cover the junction with a metal apron (junction strip), which is fixed mechanically, and seal the seams silicone sealant resistant to atmospheric influences. The connection to vertical walls is carried out in a similar way (Fig. 17).
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Application of sealing adhesive K-36
For sealing the following components: overlaps of the lining carpet; overlaps of ordinary tiles on the valley carpet, joints, penetrations of carpet ventilation systems Katepal "K-36" glue is used. Glue consumption is indicated in Table 2
Table 2. Consumption of Glue "K-36"
Total information Storage temperature: up to + 33 degrees. WITH Application temperature: from + 5 to + 50 degrees. WITH Touch dry time: about 5 hours at 20 degrees. C, full: from 1 to 14 days depending on the thickness of the layer and the ambient temperature. Attention! Do not use K-36 adhesive to seal seams, cracks, etc. Excessive glue may cause excessive bitumen dissolution! The use of solvents or other chemically active compounds is not permitted. You can obtain complete instructions for installing flexible tiles at any point of sale when purchasing material. If your roof has a complex profile or for some other reason the installation procedure is complicated, it is advisable to contact specialists. Procedure for maintaining a roof made of flexible tiles To maintain the operational and aesthetic properties of flexible tiles, it is necessary to check the condition of the roof at least 2 times a year. It is recommended to sweep leaves and other small debris from the roof with a soft brush that does not damage the roofing. Branches and other large debris must be removed by hand. Ensure free flow of water from the roof. To do this, it is necessary to clear debris from gutters and funnels. You can rake snow from the roof only if necessary, in layers, leaving a protective layer of snow on the roof of 10-20 cm. To remove ice, do not use sharp objects that can damage the roofing. If there is a need to produce roof repair, you need to get down to business right away to avoid more serious damage. When carrying out work on the roof, the roof covering must be protected. |
