It is recommended to carry out preventive maintenance and repair of the soft roof of the garage at least once every 4-5 years, but, unfortunately, often such a problem begins to be solved already after the formation of a roof leak.
When a leak appears, you should immediately take it for its elimination, since the question is most likely about the safety of the integrity of your car.
So let's write the rules do-it-yourself garage roof repair with a soft ruberoid roof, which is the most common option for a garage cover.
Preparatory work
Before starting the repair, it is necessary to find out the cause of the leak, determine the degree of complexity of repairing such a design and an approximate list of materials and tools to deal with the malfunction.
Preparation for the repair of the soft roof of the garage is carried out approximately as follows:
- They climb onto the roof of the garage and the first thing they do is start cleaning it. Both preparation and repair are best done in warm, dry weather.
- After removing leaves and debris with a broom, carefully inspect the surface of the roof. It may not be necessary to dismantle the old roof with a new roof, but it will be enough to cut down problem areas with an ax, followed by sealing the holes that have formed.
- If the soft roof of the garage has served for more than ten years, swelling, cracks may appear on it, or the seams between the roofing layers may simply open up.
- If something like this is found, they take an inflexible sharp knife and cut the problem area crosswise. Next, the edges are bent and pressed tightly against the roof surface so that they do not interfere with movement and work on the roof.
- The holes formed are thoroughly cleaned of dust and moisture using a gas burner or a building hair dryer.
- On this preparatory work can be considered finished.
Repair work
After preparing the roof, proceed directly to its repair:
- To seal the prepared areas, prepare several pieces of roofing material, previously cut from a roll. The pieces should be exactly the size of the inner area of the formed "envelope".
- The cut holes are covered with bituminous mastic or molten resin.
- The prepared piece is placed as a patch inside the hole and pressed tightly.
- An additional layer of resin or mastic is applied over the patch.
- The edges of the old roofing material are folded back and pressed tightly against the adhesive surface.
- An additional patch is glued to the problem area, and this time its size should be 15-20 cm larger than the size of the damaged area around the circumference.
- For fidelity, the repaired place is once again smeared mastic for the roof.
- Thus, all problem areas of the garage roof are repaired.
Advice! In order for the soft roof of the garage to serve without problems for another 5-10 years, it is recommended to additionally cover the entire roof area with fresh roofing sheets.
Flooring fresh roofing felt on the roof of the garage
Before laying the roofing material, the material is given time to lie down and straighten up for about a day.
To lay the rolls, you will need a resin that will connect the new coating to the old one, while providing reliable protection of the joints from leaks.
They cook it in a tin bucket, which after repair it will not be a pity to throw it away. The resin is melted over a fire to a consistency similar to thick sour cream.
After pouring resin into part of the roof, the first sheet is laid and tamped down. The next canvas is laid side by side with an overlap on the first one at 10-12 cm. Thus, the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe garage roof is covered.
Advice! It is necessary to start laying the roofing material from the lowest point of the roof slope.
The first layer of roofing felt is allowed to dry for 12 hours, after which the flooring of the next one is started, and the joints of adjacent layers should not coincide.
This will eliminate the possibility of moisture penetration between the layers. Special attention is paid to the places where adjacent structures adjoin the walls.
The number of roofing layers that need to be laid depends on the slope of the roof.With a slope of 15 degrees or less, at least 4 layers should be laid, with a slope of 16 degrees or more - at least 2x.
Roof soft garage repaired! Difficulties in performing such repairs are at a minimum, so almost everyone can do it.
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