Inexpensive “hat” for the house
Thanks to the trends of fashion, roofs of houses in the post -Soviet space are covered mainly by metal tiles, a Euro -shifer and other flexible roofing materials. Such popularity is explained by cheapness, technological, lightness and, of course, modernity. However, little is said about the practicality and reliability of these “hats for the home”. After all, more than once we heard that after natural “cataclysms”, for example, hurricanes, storm winds or heavy snowfalls, the wind pulled out modern and cheap roofing materials with whole sheets, sometimes twisting them into rolls. As you can see, fashionable – not always good.
What then will be reliable? At all times, ceramic tiles were considered the most reliable roofing material. But due to its high cost, it was most often covered not by private houses, but by architectural monuments under the protection of the state. And even that, I think, not in order to preserve the building, but purely in order to maintain an appropriate image. But this expensive material nevertheless takes the leading position from artificial roofing materials due to its consumer characteristics: strength, durability, reliability, aesthetics, resistance to natural and temperature phenomena, as well as noise insulation. Increasingly, it is ceramic tile that can be seen on the roofs of country houses and cottages: people correctly understand the saying “the stingy pays twice”. It is better to overpay once, but then no troubles, nor worries, nor troubles know. Even in the case of replacing the “failed” tiles, you do not have to strain much – this is quite easy and simple.
But what to do with its high cost? It would be possible to reduce it to it at the expense of domestic production. And “our” plants, again, succumbing to fashion for an artificial roof, “re -qualified” at, so to speak, consumer goods. But still there is an inexpensive ceramic tile in the construction market. This is a product of Hungarian, Czech and German manufacturers.