Brief
Of the existing types of coverage, pitched roofs are the most common in homes and buildings all around the world, therefore, it is necessary to ensure that they are within the parameters set out in the technical standards.
Insight
Roofs often play important roles in a project’s identity. In addition to the aesthetic aspect, they play a fundamental role in protecting and closing the building.
Of the existing types of coverage, pitched roofs are the most common in homes and buildings all around the world, therefore, it is necessary to ensure that they are within the parameters set out in the technical standards.
We call roofs those structures that close the top of buildings, protecting the inside from all weather, such as rain, wind and sunlight. They can acquire different formats and even gain new functionalities depending on the project’s identity: they can be flat, pitched, with a variety of planes or they can be visited and vegetated.
Within this variety, pitched roofs are the most used in residential architecture, and even in building roofs, given their practicality and low execution cost.
The conventional pitched roof is basically composed of two elements, the frame and the tiles. Usually, the structure consists of wooden or metallic pieces, while the tiles have a variety of types, which can be fiber cement, ceramic, aluminum, concrete, among others.
Each of these materials has its cost, maintenance and labor specifications, as well as its performance for building thermal comfort. The roof pitch is determined by the types of tile.
The tiles can be a sum of several small pieces, such as ceramic tiles, concrete and some PVC, or they can also be a combination of large plates such as metal or fiber cement. Each of them have their own properties such as weight and fixing methods, however, the general rule is that the smaller the tile, the greater the possible inclination.
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