The use of modern materials for roofing greatly facilitates installation and allows you to create interesting design projects. For example, using transparent slate, you can build a light-transmitting roof.
If there is a desire to equip a winter garden in the house or build a cozy gazebo, then transparent pvc slate should be recognized as the best material for roofing.
This material is available in a wide range of colors, so it will not be difficult to choose the best color solution. For example, if you want to build a gazebo in which you will feel cool even in extreme heat, you can choose blue or blue slate.
And if, on the contrary, you need to fill the room with a sunny color, you should choose a material in orange tones.
Advantages of transparent polymer slate
It must be said that transparent slate with ordinary slate made of asbestos cement has only the shape of the sheets and the name in common. But the properties of these materials are very different.
Firstly, transparent pvc slate perfectly transmits light, but at the same time creates a reliable hermetic coating, which stands as a reliable shield, protecting the house from bad weather - wind, precipitation, low temperatures.
In addition, the material is plastic, with its help it is easy to create arches, domes and other complex shapes.
The advantages of the material include:
- Flexibility and elasticity;
- Long service life;
- High level of strength;
- Quick and easy installation;
- UV resistant;
- Light weight;
- Weather resistance;
- Smooth surface on which snow and dust do not linger;
- Low degree of flammability, transparent pvc slate does not support combustion, and when heated does not form drops and does not emit harmful substances;
- Attractive appearance.
However, this type of coating also has disadvantages, which include a narrow temperature range for operation (from minus 20 to plus 50).
Where are transparent slate sheets used?
The scope of this material is quite wide, it is used:
- As the main roofing material in the construction of commercial, public or agricultural buildings.
- As a covering of arched structures. For example, during the construction of warehouses, hangars or similar structures.
- For the manufacture of fences, outbuildings, canopies, arbors.
- For the construction of greenhouses and greenhouses.
- For the manufacture of canopies over summer cafes, sports facilities, places for recreation.
- To create interior interior elements. For example, transparent flat slate can be used for internal partitions or skylights.
- To cover the roof and walls of indoor swimming pools, car parks, bus stop pavilions, etc.
How are transparent slate sheets installed?
If you plan to lay such a roofing material as transparent pvc slate, then you should listen to the following recommendations:
- This roofing material is recommended for installation on slopes with an inclination angle of at least 8 degrees.
- If the material is used to create an arch, then its radius must be at least two and a half meters.
- Sheets of transparent slate are laid on the crate with an overlap, the width of the overlap is 20 cm.
- roof lathingare usually made of wood. . If metal structures are used, then metal parts are recommended to be painted white or wrapped with aluminum foil. This precaution will eliminate the risk of heating the metal parts of the structure, which can lead to melting of the material.
- Sheets are laid perpendicular to the lathing slats. The laying direction is from bottom to top.
- Screws equipped with a washer are screwed in through 3 or 4 waves. Only near the ridge and cornices with gutters, screws are placed more often - after two waves.
- Before installing the screws, holes are made in the sheets with a drill. The hole diameter should be 3 mm larger than the screw part of the self-tapping screw.
- The distance between the screws and the edge of the sheet should be 4 cm.
- From 18 to 20 self-tapping screws are spent on one sheet.
- The gap between the slate and the wall is about 3 mm.
Advice! It is impossible to walk on sheets of transparent slate, therefore, to move, a board is laid, the length of which is equal to the triple length of one sheet.
- For cutting slate, circular saws or fine-toothed hacksaws are used.
Other types of slate
Another type of polymer material is fiberglass slate. This roofing is made from glass fiber reinforced polymer.
The result is a heat-resistant material, it can be successfully used at temperatures from minus 40 to plus 140 degrees Celsius.
This material is durable and reliable, so fiberglass slate is recommended for multi-purpose use.
roofing material able to withstand even fairly strong hail with wind. Dents formed on the surface in the form of white specks and even cobweb-like cracks on the surface do not reduce the protective properties of the material.
A demanded novelty is also slate with a polymer coating. This material is based on classic asbestos-cement sheets, which are coated on both sides with a polymer.
The result is a material that retains all the positive qualities of ordinary slate and, at the same time, is devoid of its main drawbacks - fragility, the ability to warp due to water ingress, the formation of dust with asbestos particles.
Polymerized slate is a stronger and more durable material than ordinary slate. In addition, it has excellent decorative properties without requiring painting.
conclusions
Thus, transparent slate is a modern building material with a number of positive characteristics.
This type roof coverings can be used in the construction of various buildings in private construction and in the construction of industrial or public facilities.
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