In the process of building the house from the ground a lot of details need to be addressed, especially the roof. It is important to create a quality crate under the roofing material. This is one of the most important elements of the roof, which should be given due consideration in the mandatory need to abide by the rules and regulations and observe the process.
Lathing. What it is?
Lathing is a special frame structure, which may consist of boards, and of the bars. On the truss system of timber stacked at an angle of 90 degrees. It is said that it is crate transfers all the burden on the truss system, and in the future, snow, ice and rain will be further work on the roof element.
The battens for the basic material use:
- Decking or a simple board.
- Brus.
- Plywood.
- Tes.
As already mentioned, it is important to match the technological process, as otherwise in a strong gust of wind can be a roof to the ground, or at least part of it.
That is, before the work is to thoroughly understand all the features and see if there is enough knowledge and skills to perform all the quality. Or is it better to turn to a team of workers who have experience and will do everything quickly and efficiently.
Regarding the choice of crates, sometimes allowed lite version, but there is a huge role plays used roofing material. Often sparse view battens used if the further roofing slate will overlap, metal, or ceramic tile. And as the base material should be used board with a thickness of inch.
How to choose a step crates?
Depending on the type of material used should pick up pace roof battens. Here the role played by the size of the sheet used. And at the moment the most popular types of roofing material has its own rules:
- When it comes to soft roof, the step is not more than 1 centimeter.
- When using the slate is acceptable to make the step from 50 to 70 centimeters.
- By using metal roofing, it is best to move crates ranged from 30 to 40 centimeters.
- Tiling allows the interval from 32 to 38 centimeters.
- As for the standing seam roof, it is recommended to move to 20 centimeters, but sometimes distance can be more.
