Roof shingles
Shingle (Sindel, wooden tiles) are multi-story, aiming at one age and is still valued and used for their special qualities: durability, environmental friendliness, unique appearance, the building of reliable protection against any adverse weather effects. Thanks to its core strength - ability to "breathe" after the coating does not condensate. Such a coating, rain, a strong wind, hail, not noise, and most importantly, the human-nature relationship and consistency with you to the wider natural landscape, embodiment.
Shingle- The roof and facade coating is produced under the old technology of the German team of valuable types of wood: larch or oak. Lithuania still has some use aspen wood, while other countries such as Canada - Canadian red cedar, mid Germany - dull.
History
All land areas, which are characterized by a rich forest vegetation, wooden tiles have been used since the settlement of these lands. Nails at the time was not yet, so that individual tiles were simply summed up in rows on the roof and fixed with wooden beam and pressed against the stone. Alpine region, and even now can still be found as-coated roof. So far, split shingle remains the same čerpinės the oldest form of coating. This čerpinės surface form, has been produced exclusively for splitting wood by hand. Even then, when there were saws, shingle and was produced by splitting the wood. After all, cutting wood saw perpjauna wood fiber, and splitting by hand along the wood fibers are separated and remain intact through the entire length of the shingles.
Historical sources confirm that the majority of late medieval peasant community or home roofs were covered with wooden tiles, shingle. And only when the use of forest landowners in the law has changed hands and the need for construction wood had to be purchased from their homes with wooden roofs have fallen. While even some of the areas they have remained a dominant roof form. Transport and industrial development of other roofing materials as well as homes have become an important content of the wood roofs cause for the loss.
Technical Features
No one denies that the wooden house creates a unique, beneficial health microclimate, reserving the optimal humidity inside the house. Exactly the same effect has wooden shingles or chip surface. For all coatings sold in the market have 5 - 20 years warranty. This number, however, shingles cover, you can safely assume, will serve 100 years or more. Qualitatively to the cost of shingle roof, usually three layers of coating to reach 3 cm or more, with full air-tightness. Thus, in such a way, winter is the heat accumulation pastoginėje space, and heaven itself serves as a hundred or more years without additional maintenance. Seemingly fragile coating provides reliable protection from rain, wind, heat, cold. In the rain, shingles tiles from moisture and swelling cover tightly susiglaudžia. After a little rain during drying tiles išsigaubia, while ensuring that the purging and removal of excess moisture. The fact that the wood surface to breathe and installation shall be made on the air gap between the coating and the roof structure, roof ventilation takes place, which significantly increases the load-bearing structures and the pavement life. This is thanks to a house in the summer is cool, because the strong heating of the wooden surface, and in winter, wood coating layer will hold part of the house placed in the heat.
Technical larch and oak wood properties by the presence of tanning (tannins) materials, the coating has a particularly resistant to environmental influences. The construction of the house need not be mounted a strong roof structure, which is especially important for the installation of an attic. Coverings can be installed and at low temperatures. In some European countries and the spread shingle facade decoration. This affects the minimum cost of maintenance of wall coverings. The wooden shingles cover - this element attracts the surrounding sights, as well as requiring the stylistic and architectural. This architectural expression way to implement the most courageous decisions.
Wood Types
Larch (Larix decidua) - This evergreen conifer. Larch wood is considered one of the Kieciausi between conifers. At the same time, the elastic, rocks, and water-resistant resinous wood. Outside Balaninus timber production shingle has been removed. Wood is reddish-brown tint. Compared to oak, she stops him little hard, but ahead of resistance. Furthermore, the particular resin composition with time larch only tvirtėja. Larch wood and has healing properties in it for the antioxidants and biologically active nutrients. Maumedinius shingle can be stored while a hundred years and they still fit installation. Maumedinių shingles advantage is based on the unique properties of larch:
- high resistance to decay and insect pests, among other violations;
- large depreciation of the time;
- the beauty of the wood structure and its decorative features.
Oak (Quercus robur) - widespread in the verdant summer lapuotis possessing strong, solid core. Dark brown Balaninus core surrounded by a light-colored wood is used for the manufacture of shingles. Due to the large number of substances it contains sour wood is resistant to external shocks and decay. Weather conditions affect the wood-very slow deterioration. Shingle oak is recommended to cover coatings that require special quality. For more than larch balance, decreasing the production yield of shingles, which results in a higher price for them. How is possible to identify a small gap of less than maumedinių shingles life.
