For a large number of summer residents who built their cottages in the last century, today there is a rather acute problem of roof repair. The most common roofing material is nevertheless slate-not expensive and convenient building materials for the construction of a roof. The service life of slate roofs is limited, and small cracks begin to occur on the roof.
Causes of damage to slate roofs. Starting the repairs of the roof from the slate, it is mainly necessary to decide on the causes of the resulting roof defects. It is very important to correctly identify the reason at the very first stage, so that our future efforts to repair the roof of the country house do not be in vain.
The usual causes of cracks that appear along the leaf of the slate are mechanical damage to the roof, a small distortion of the house, as a result of walking along it, a small diameter of the holes for nails, or the fall of a weighty object (wood and t. D.).
Roof repair technology: Having identified the cause of roof defects, you need to begin the choice of building materials for roof repair. Chering roofs are repaired using a mixture of pure cement (preferably at least five hundredth), chopped asbestos cement and PVA glue. We knead before the appearance of the cream -shaped mass and this mass smear cracks and cracks.
A very important point before applying to the surface of the roof of this mixture you need to thoroughly rinse areas of the repair, for a better solution of the solution. Applies the mixture in layers of no more than two millimeters, letting the previous layer dry.
The final stage of the repair: you can already leave the renovated roof so, but most masters advise additionally close the renovated places with frauds. Latka can be made of roofing material, pieces of plastic bottle or dense film.