Shingles roof

Wood shingles used for centuries as roofing, for Russian villages and cities - it was the most affordable material that provided reliable hydro and thermal insulation of houses. In the wake of fashion for environmentally friendly materials,shingles roofs began to build again in modern conditions.

Roofing shingles called in different ways: shingles, ploughshare, tes, gorodets. Regardless of the name, the essence remains the same - wooden planks laid on the roof in two or three layers.

Qualitatively laid and processed shingles roof can regularly serve more than a hundred years, without changing its properties. Masters who can lay wood shingles in Russia, almost no more, so many have to re-learn and learn from experience from abroad, in countries where the skill is not forgotten, and the climate is close to ours.

For example, a spindle is made in Germany, its factory production has been established for a long time, and the finished product is in essence roof shingles - wooden tiles.

Shingles roof in addition to its environmental properties, it also has technical advantages, when laying between the elements, small cracks are formed, which, the tree is swollen during the rain, closes, and in sunny weather, the coating shrinks, ensuring the process of self-ventilation.

Roofing shingles divided into two types, depending on the method of manufacture: sawn and chipped. The raw material selected only moisture-resistant wood, heavy-duty and tar. Larch, oak, linden, aspen or Canadian red cedar wood is used.

Shingles can be of different shades, depending on the type of wood from which it was made, for example, cedar shingles have a purple-red hue, while the larch is light beige. But the original color of the finished roof is from wood shingles, for a long time does not remain, in the process of exposure to weather changes, the coating will turn gray.

The installation of the shingles is carried out in a double or triple manner, depending on the constant number of planks across. Triple layer is considered more reliable. The relatively small weight of the roof, fifteen to seventeen kilograms per square meter, there is no need to build a powerful truss system.

In this case, a ventilation space should be organized to remove moisture, and the material itself should be treated with antiseptic impregnation and anti-ignition agents.