Step 10 pouring the grout.
Flat cement roof.
Add some water to get a flowing consistency.
Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick.
These pores are interconnected within the concrete and water will penetrate through such.
A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house.
A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like.
For this step you will have to make the grout mixture.
Increasingly popular with designers architects and home buyers a flat tile roof offers a crisp clean appearance that perfectly complements both traditional and modern architecture.
Flat concrete roof tiles refer to a variety of profiles completely lacking in any barrels or rolls.
If you own a wood frame home for example you re going to need a lot of structural adjustments in order to support a flat concrete roof and the cost might be prohibitive.
Depending on the designed strength density and installation techniques the number of pores can vary.
Take a bucket and mix 2 1 2 parts of the sand with 1 part of cement.
Pouring the concrete roof easy step building a country house traditional construction.
A grout will hold the flat concrete roof in place.
A flat concrete roof is going to weigh a great deal so before you begin to imagine putting one on your home you have to be sure that your house can support it.
Due to the features of the design it would be extremely hard for this house to withstand the vagaries of the weather and heavy rain snowfall.
For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.
Concrete flat roof 12 1 background most roofs in singapore are constructed using reinforced concrete which is known to have pores or capillary tracts.