Innovation is part of the human growth process. Without innovation, humans would be difficult to develop. One of them is on the roof. The roof innovation allows us to get the safety and comfort.
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Choose Your Roof, Optimize Its Function
Adjust roof option with your environmental climate to optimize its function.
If your home is located in a tropical climate, choose a roof that is resistant to summer and rainy season. Also, to consider is the ease of obtaining the material, the near or adjacent to the building stood, certainly better in terms of maintenance or purchases gradually.
Materials used should be insulation against heat, cold, and noise. While on the surface of the roof must be tight to prevent rainwater from penetrating and seeping. Another important thing to note is the characteristic of the roof that can expand. Make sure the roof does not change because of the change of weather.
The treatment is best to easy for you. Non-flammable and has a fairly light weight as well as a solid base once installed. By paying attention to these things, your roof will last longer and durable.
The Main Function of Roof
Since humans build homes, roof construction began to be known. Originally the roof serves as a shade shelter, but the function continues to grow until finally the roof function was combined with other functions that are completely new.
Let’s get to know, what the functions of the roof are:
1. Restricting Space
Occupancy is a collection container spaces with family activities. These activities should take place continuously without weather interruption. Here the roofs contribute to creating space restrictions can be comforting activity.
The roof can give the effect of broad or narrow on space. Utilization of the roof had to watch the height of the face of the floor, the higher the location of the roof, the more extensive the resulting impression of space.
2. Protector
The roof must be able to provide security. Sense of security from the sun and rain is the main thing. The roof also must be in favor of the natural conditions that could harm humans. Earthquakes and strong winds in a certain scale are the examples. Construction of the roof should be attached with the construction of the building body. If there is a shift in the event of natural disturbances, the shift does not endanger residents. In areas that are often exposed to high winds, the roof construction is often “tied” with a special cable structure that cannot be separated from the body building.
Construction of the roof should be a system of interconnected, especially in light steel frame construction. Light steel frame is not the same with wood, both in terms of strength, size, and how to use it. “These are often wrong in the field. The installer (which has not been certified) often install light steel frame with wood frame. This is wrong. Strength of lightweight steel frame is in the system, including the type of fastening bolts.”
3. Coolant of Room Temperature
Air circulation is one of the most important elements of making comfortable room. Air circulation means also paying attention to the direction of air flow in the house. In principle, the heat always moves up in the afternoon, and vice versa. If hot air is blocked, it will flow in the room and make the room hot and uncomfortable. If well-designed, the roof cavity could be a container of hot air flowing from the room below.
Clay Roof Tile Cooling Your House
Clay roof tile is still in demand. Although the process requires no small amount of energy, but on the other hand the clay actually can absorb heat. This makes homes cooler.
There is plentong shaped “toad roof tile” or leaves roof tile. Installation is done by the slope of 22.5º-45º. The slope makes rain water cannot enter through the joints between the tiles. Its weight is fairly light, less than 1 kg.
Installation of plentong tile not requires a complex roof structure. Plentong tile can be installed on wood lath with sectional dimension 2/3 and the distance between battens 30cm-35cm. Each 1m² takes at least 25 pieces of tile. Like the making of traditional art items, the manufacturing process is still manual, so often the size of the tile with one another is not exactly the same. This makes the gap between the tile, and result the hook to the battens less than maximum. To avoid seepage, install sheets of aluminum foil under the roof tiles.
One disadvantage of the clay tile is fragile, so the tile should be installed with caution. Typically, the tile will be transported to the roof and lined in a row. After that, then do the installation, while providing space for walking.
The tile surfaces that have long will generally be moldy, and turns black. Some people favor a natural color like this. If you do not like it, you only have to repaint it.
