Transparent slate - a beautiful modern coating to create a light-transmissive roof. With its help you can create designs of various shapes and colors. Durable and easy to install material is used in the arrangement of roofs, where no insulation is required. The article describes the transparent slate, gives advice on the correct installation of the roof.
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Transparent slate. Light, beautiful and stylish cover
In terms of composition and technical characteristics, transparent slate with ordinary asbestos cement is related only to the name and shape of the profile section. Transparent material is designed to create light-transmitting roofs of gazebos, canopies, swimming pools and other premises. Such slate is widely used in industrial construction to create beautiful design styles in the decoration of buildings. Slate plastic transparent refers to the polymer roofing materials of the Euroschaft group.
Beautiful transparent or translucent roof looks visually easy and very beautiful, a variety of colors allows you to realize the boldest design decisions and give the room an unusual color scheme. In industrial construction, transparent slate is installed in warehouses, greenhouses, public buildings. Due to the good light transmitting ability of the material, a reduction in power consumption is achieved. With a smooth surface, dirt and debris can easily be washed off, which makes it possible to keep the roof clean and transparent as much as possible.
For the installation of such a lightweight material, lightweight rafter construction is used. Working with such a slate is extremely simple, it is plastic, well cut, which allows you to implement the most complex design solutions and mount the coating quickly and efficiently. Transparent slate for a roof can be attached to the hollow of a sheet wave, and not to a comb, which simplifies installation and distinguishes it from asbestos-cement slate. In another case, a special substrate is placed under the convexity for easy installation.
The transparent coating is resistant to any precipitation, copes well with distributed static loads, is not subject to corrosion, durable and does not require special operating conditions. However, any point and dynamic loads on the transparent sheet should be avoided.
There are several varieties of transparent roofing. Such roofing material is made from:
- acrylic;
- polycarbonate;
- polyvinyl chloride (PVC);
- fiberglass.
The sheets of acrylic and polycarbonate have a flat shape, and the transparent PVC slate is profiled (ribbed).
Roofing from acrylic and polycarbonate sheets
Acrylic is a colorless or colored material with increased resistance to stress. More common is its second name - organic glass or, briefly, plexiglass. Acrylic is actively used in construction due to its elasticity and ability at certain temperatures to easily change shape and freeze in any modifications. This allows you to create a lot of options for products and necessary designs.
In the construction industry, acrylic sheets of a special configuration are used, which are used as a roofing material. The advantage of this material is its lightness and aesthetics. Multi-colored coating looks on any buildings is unusual and beautiful. In addition, the lifetime of such a deck is more than ten years. Acrylic slate well passes ultraviolet, which is why it is used to equip pool roofs and tanning beds. However, minus the roof of Plexiglas is the burnout of interior items under the transparent roof.
Polycarbonate sheets for the roof have a honeycomb structure, this gives them strength and increased resistance to distributed and shock loads, as well as wind. This material is chemically resistant, the life of the roof, mounted from transparent sheets of polycarbonate - 15 years.
The downside of all these polymer roofing materials is their low resistance to static loads - they can not be walked on. Another drawback is the expansion of the material when heated. This should be taken into account when attaching the material, as it will expand more and faster than the frame.
Transparent slate. Pros and cons of PVC roofing
Transparent slate is a profiled (ribbed) roofing material made of polyvinyl chloride, otherwise PVC. It is available in a variety of colors, is widely used for the installation of light light-transmitting roofing coatings, as it has a very high degree of aesthetics, absolute transparency and relative cheapness. In order to obtain a high-quality and durable coating, it is necessary to purchase the material from reliable, well-proven manufacturers, the transparent price on the slate may differ significantly depending on the season and the quality of the material.
Transparent slate is a high-strength material, with the most fanciful bends it does not crumble and it breaks. That is why it is used for obtaining beautiful figured architectural designs and ornaments. The thickness of a sheet of such slate is 1.0 - 1.5 mm, it is thinner than asbestos-cement slate. The service life is very high, such a roof serves up to 50 years.
The special advantages of a transparent PVC roof are:
- Resistance to ultraviolet radiation.
- Greater strength and resistance to mechanical stress.
- Elasticity, flexibility and increased aesthetics.
- Water resistant.
- Resistance to adverse environmental conditions.
- Ease of installation.
- High resilience.
- Ecological and safety.
- Long service life.
The disadvantage of transparent slate is a small range of permissible operating temperatures, it varies from -20 0From to +50 0C. You can not walk on slate sheets made of PVC, so if necessary, planks are laid for moving.
How to mount a transparent slate
Experts recommend the following rules when installing transparent PVC roofing:
- For a transparent roof, a skeleton with a bridle step of 35-45 cm is made.
- Transparent PVC slate is installed on the frame, the angle of the ramp is at least 8 degrees to reduce the load from rain and snow.
- Radius of bending for performing complex shapes and structures of more than 2.5 m.
- On the frame the sheets are overlapped. The width of the overlap is 20 cm.
- Sheets of transparent slate are mounted perpendicular to the rails of the frame.
- Before fastening in sheets with the help of a drill holes are made for self-tapping screws. The diameter of the hole should be 3 mm larger than the diameter of the screw. At the same time, rubber gaskets are used to prevent precipitation from falling under the structure.
- Fastening is performed at a distance of at least 5 cm from the edge of the sheet. To fix one transparent sheet you need 20 screws.
- The necessary clearance between the material to be fixed and the laths of the battens is 3 mm. Sheets must move slightly.
- If necessary, the transparent sheets are cut with a small-toothed hacksaw or a circular saw.
- All metal parts of the frame, to prevent overheating, it is necessary to paint with light paint, or wrap it with aluminum foil.
- To move along the slate lay a wide board.
Fiberglass slate, as a kind of transparent slate
Fiberglass is a durable and high-quality material. Fiberglass slate is made on the basis of polymer, reinforced with fiberglass. Due to this, such material is heat-resistant, it easily tolerates temperatures from -40 0C to + 150 0FROM.
Fiberglass slate is practical, reliable and durable, is recommended by manufacturers for a wide range of multi-purpose applications. The quality and strength of this roofing material is significantly higher than all other transparent coatings. Even in the case of small cobweb-like cracks on the surface of fiberglass, its protective properties do not decrease.
Slate transparent can be bought in specialized construction stores or from the manufacturer. Usually complete with PVC sheets sold cornice, ridge elements and necessary fasteners. Prices for profiled transparent PVC are in the same range as for ordinary slate. Naturally, for the installation of roofing, where a heater is required, such a material is not suitable, so they are not completely covered at home. For the construction of coatings that do not require insulation, manufacturers offer a variety of types of profiled PVC, including imitating a tiled coating.
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