Types of soft roofs

Since mission and mission style are associated with America, mission tiles in the United States are more often referred to as Spanish tiles in England and Europe. Today, some manufacturers of tiles gave their brand name historical forms Tiles. Closing a cornice or bird storm to keep birds, noticeably absent in replacing tiles in the center of the bottom row.

Tiles that cover most of the flat surface of the roof are called field tiles. Some roof forms, in particular, conical towers or towers, require tiles with graded dimensions, and some forms or patterns from field tiles also require a special finish for finishing the roof. Other unique tiles were made to match odd spaces and places, including auditory and valley, roof thighs, rakes, ridges and angles. There are also finish tiles that satisfy certain requirements, such as the closure of cornice or clay plugs called "bird birds".

They are intended to hold snow and rain, and birds from nesting in voids under the lower side of the curved plates. Various drawings and designs can also be created by combining or mixing and comparing flat tiles with measuring plates.

The red terracotta is a color that is most often associated with historical clay tiles. The reddish color comes from clay with a large percentage of iron oxide, and there are many variations of this natural color, which can be found in the stoves, ranging from deep reddish brown to softer and pale oranges and cloves. Lighter and beige colors, as well as black, also appear on traditional tile buildings. Booth colored tiles were made of almost pure flammable clay, and the pouring of manganese dissolved in water over the tiles, to the firing led to smoky brown or black glazed tiles.

Most of the historical glazed roofing tiles have fairly natural shades, which range from red and brown and buffes to black and purple, blues and diverse greenery. In the colors of tiles that were baked on wood fire, there may be a significant range, because the temperature inside the furnace was so uneven; The tiles closest to the fire cooked to the end and turning into a dark red color, while the tiles most remote from the flame probably were painted in smoke and lighter orange.

The method used to impart clay tiles depends on the shape, size and style of a particular tile. For the most part, traditional and modern methods for installing clay tiles are very similar, except that modern practice always includes the use of wooden sheat and roofing felt. Although this method of fastening allowed to provide sufficient ventilation and facilitated the search for leaks and repairs, it also meant that the overall waterproof of the roof completely depended on the tiles themselves.

Gradually, the practice developed from the nail roofing tiles directly on a solid wooden trim or hung them from the "feathers" on the horizontal plank, which was attached to the rafters or the roof lining. Some types of tiles, especially later plates of mission or barrels, were laid on top of the vertical strips or boards, nailed to the trim, or tiles were attached to wooden wrappers with copper wire.

Advantages of soft roof

Partly because they do not always suit each other very close, some forms of tiles, including Spanish, barrel or mission, as well as other types of blocking plates, are not in themselves water-repellent when used on very low roofs. They always demanded some form of roofing or an additional waterproof sublayer, such as felting, bituminous or cement coating. In some traditional English applications, treatment called "burning" included the use of a simple type of solution, usually consisting of straw, dirt and moss.

Conquer-shaped mission tiles from old Spanish missions in California were also laid in the bed of a mud solution mixed with grass or straw, which was their only means of attaching to very low cane or rags that supported tiles.

More modern and modern methods of roofing work require that tiles fit into a solid wooden trim, felt with coated basic sheets of at least 30 pounds or superimposed membranes or single-layer roofing membranes. This significantly increases the waterproofability of the roof by adding the second layer of waterproofing. The horizontal and vertical lines of the chalk are drawn to serve as a guide for laying the tile and to indicate its pattern.

Before laying tiles, copper or lead gutters, protrusions and valleys must be installed, preferably using at least a corrosion-resistant metal at least No. 2.6 extending at least 12 inches under the stove from the edge or in accordance with the requirements of the manufacturer specifications. Long service life and the expected durability of the clay tile require that, as with roofing nails, only the best metal quality is chosen for flashing and drainage.

These clay conical plates were accurately reproduced from archaeological materials found in place. The company for the production of tile or roofing contractor should calculate the number of tiles required in accordance with the type of roof and based on the drawings of architects to ensure accuracy.

After the tile section is uniformly distributed in the piles on the roof, within easy reach for roofers. The tiles are stacked, starting at the first course on the lower edge of the roof of the cornice. The way roofing tiles is stacked and attached is varied depending on the type and construction of the tile and the roof shape, as well as from regional practice and local weather conditions. To raise the first row of tiles to the required height and the angle necessary for the best operation, you can use raised fascia, the strip of edging, a double or triple layer of tiles or special tiles for bird cover under the roof cornices.

After this first course is carefully connected and tested from the ground level for correctness and color nuances and adjusted accordingly, the serial courses are superimposed on the following below, since the roofer is diagonally up to the roof to the ridge.

Most flat clay tiles have one or two holes located at the top, or on the "tip" or "protrusion", which protrudes vertically either from the face, or on the bottom of the tiles, to feed the tile to the trim, crib or recess strips at the bottom. When successive tile rows are installed, these holes will be covered with the next tile pitch above. Traditionally, the clay tile on the oldest tiled roofs hung on the roofs with wooden spicles from oak. When these wooden pegs rotted, they were usually replaced with nails.