Bitumen tile and its characteristics

Twain bitumen tile and its characteristics

Many homeowners of suburban buildings began to be used to cover roofs of houses, bitumen tiles. Such houses look quite decent, you can say expensive, more, and, quality indicators are quite consistent with the price.

Bitumen tiles are based on fiberglass and glass -cooled, high strength, materials. Their surface is covered with special bitumen mastic, which includes additives of various polymer modifiers, and other auxiliary substances that endow the bitumen tile with strength, and resistance to various deformation processes.

To protect the material from the action of aggressive, atmospheric phenomena on it, the upper layer of the tile is covered with basalt granulatory, which at one time can be of different colors. Then the surface of the bitumen tile is covered with a layer of shale spy, or crumbs, from the mineral material absolutely opposite in technical qualities.

When acquiring such roofing material as bitumen tiles, special attention should be paid to its true technical characteristics, making a purchase, make sure that the material is sufficiently resilient to low temperatures, and persistent to the effects of fire.