Shingle roof

Wooden shingles used for many centuries as a roof covering, for Russian villages and cities - it was the most affordable material that provided reliable hydro and thermal insulation of houses. In the wake of the fashion for environmentally friendly materials,shingle roofs they began to erect again in modern conditions.

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

Well laid and finished shingle roof can properly serve more than a hundred years, without changing its properties. Masters who know how to stack wooden shingles in Russia there is almost no left, so many have to re-learn and adopt experience from abroad, in countries where the skill is not forgotten, and the climate is close to ours.

For example, a shindle is made in Germany, its factory production has been established for a long time, and the finished product is inherently shingle roofing - wooden tiles.

Shingle roof in addition to its environmental properties, it also has technical advantages, when laying between the elements, small gaps are formed, which, when the tree swelled during the rain, closes, and in sunny weather, the coating shrinks, providing itself a self-ventilation process.

Roofing shingles divided into two types, depending on the manufacturing method: sawn and chipped. Only moisture-resistant wood, ultra-strong and resinous, is selected as raw materials. The wood used is larch, oak, linden, aspen or Canadian red cedar.

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

The shingle is installed in a double or triple way, depending on the constant number of planks in diameter. The triple layer is considered to be more reliable. The relatively low weight of the roof, fifteen to seventeen kilograms per square meter, there is no need to build a powerful rafter system.

In this case, a ventilation space must be organized to remove moisture, and the material itself must be treated with antiseptic impregnations and anti-fire agents.