The choice of roofing materials today is great. Each manufacturer seeks to offer the buyer something that way-more technological, beautiful or easy to install. It is sometimes difficult for an Amateur to understand the nuances of various coatings and make the right choice.
However, people had a solid roof over your head long before appeared in the sale of Ondulin and bitumen roof shingles. Our ancestors used as roofing a variety of materials, the names of which are now used with the prefix “eco” — from the word “eco”, not “economical”.
In this publication I will consider the options of roofing stone and wood.
Eco-from the word eco-friendly
Most often for the roof covering today use materials of artificial origin. The most common are metal or flexible shingles, corrugated cardboard, impregnated with bitumen (better known as Ondulin), asbestos cement, polymer-sand, fibroblast, composite sheets of wavy or flat shape and many others.
Manufacturers in all ways praise their proposals. Consumers, in turn, break the spears in disputes that it is better to choose for the roof — Ondulin or profiled, or what material is the best way to block the roof on the veranda. And read tips on how to choose roofing material.
Natural roofing materials have moved into the premium segment: the roof of the reeds in the recent past available to simple and poor villager, today can only afford the owner of an expensive cottage or a person very much interested in using only natural materials in their own home.
It is understandable: the cost of a square meter of metal, along with the payment of works on its installation is about one-fifteenth of the price per square meter of the roof of straw, reed or wooden shingle. How to solve the issue with the roof ancestors?
Stone
Natural stone has been used for thousands of years by mankind for a variety of construction needs, including roofing.
Modern man may seem nonsense stone roof-it is too heavy and the road. But before in those areas where, in addition to stone, other materials, in General, and was not, tiles of limestone, slate or marble-quite an ordinary phenomenon.
These are, for example, Trulli — stone houses in the Italian province of Apulia, with a kind of roof-dome. The most ancient of the known Trulls belong to the XVI century. Masonry, including the dome, was produced without the use of solution.
This method was used by residents to evade taxes: when were tax collectors, the owners pulled out one stone masonry, and the building was destroyed. After the departure of the tax Trulls gathered again.
Of course, Trullo — a nice building that can decorate any country plot, but to collect it without a certain skill will not be easy. And the installation of tiles of natural slate is quite possible for those who know how to hold the instrument.
By the way, do you know what slate is? Most imagine wavy gray sheets of asbestos-cement. In German, the word “schiefer” means shale — sedimentary rocks with a layered structure. And not products of the French company “Onduline SA” type Ondulin, onduvilla or onduri, known to us as euroslate.
Therefore, talking with the German about the slate roof, specify what exactly he means.
Tree
One of the hypotheses that explain the historical backlog of Russia from many European countries in the field of technology is that there are many forests in this country and it is very large. More precisely, they have a lot of wood as a building material and a lot of space to live.
The Europeans had already extracted their forests at the beginning of the middle Ages, so they built stone towns, and the tightness of Europe limited the possibility of resettlement. In the event of an attack, the residents were forced to defend themselves by inventing sophisticated defensive technologies.
The Slavs lived in wooden cities, and if passed over enemies, they in some cases it was easier to load belongings into a cart to take the children in his arms and hide, build a new settlement elsewhere.
Wood for the construction of a favorite and widely used-and for the device of roofs, too. Although as a roofing material it was used and used not only in this country.
At first glance, the wooden roof is unreliable. Everyone knows that wood absorbs water, swells, rots. But until 1787, people made, for example, only wooden boats and ships and traveled on them through the oceans. The main thing is that the wooden roof covering was made correctly and from the right wood, then the roof covered with wood, not afraid of decades and even centuries.
Often, all types of roofing wood called shingle. Wooden tiles can be of several types, they differ in shape, thickness and method of laying on the roof. Except piece of wood for the roof and use of the Board: it turns out plank roof.
Stone and wood are not the only possible materials for the device of eco — roofs.
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