RoofConstruction-Terminology

Asphalt Shingles As Roofing Material And It's Types The manufacture of asphalt roofing materials has been undergone from the 1890s. Today asphalt shingles cover 70 to 80 percent of the roofs in the United States. It has now spread to different parts of the world. The asphalt roof shingles are very attractive, versatile, and provide high fire and wind resistance. The shingles cost is economical which makes it relatively inexpensive in terms of aesthetics and the durability it provides to the building. The asphalt shingles can be very easily installed and require little maintenance. The normal life expectancy of the asphalt roof shingles is in the range of 15 to 20 years. The fiberglass shingles provide a life expectancy of 20 to 30 years. Asphalt Roof Shingles Types of Shingles for Roof Organic Shingles The organic-based asphalt shingles consist of a base mat composed of cellulose fibers made from recycled paper or the wood chips and cotton or the wool rugs. But pr...

Attic Construction Using Modern Engineered Timber Components The wide growth within the use of attic construction to form the utmost use of the building envelope, as well as the dearth of consummate building labor, has resulted within the fast development of designed timber elements to be used not solely in floors, however additionally within the construction of the roof part itself.  This chapter addresses the developments, several of that, like bound rafters, area unit trade-named merchandise developed by specialist timber engineering firms. For that reason a number of the illustrations during this chapter, like those in Chapter half dozen that deal with bound rafter systems, area unit drawn from the assorted manufacturers’ technical and trade literature. The Floor Engineered timber within the varied forms illustrated in Fig. 3.13 has existed for a few sizeable times. However, the demand from the house building business normally for a product of higher quality than sol...