Flying Concrete Roof

For an exposed concrete roof installation it is recommended that a competent concrete mix design consultant or concrete supplier be engaged to assist in the development of the concrete mix to be used.

Flying concrete roof. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Flat concrete roofs as they are locally constructed have a number of issues. This is the first roof panel we cast in texas. Check out my recent work.

Flying concrete house tour 2019. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. Cabbage roof under construction tim s small shop. The largest span is 6 meters.

Our locally available aggregate here in san miguel is a type of pumice espumilla or arenilla which we typically mix 8 1 or 10 1 by volume with cement for walls and 5 1 for roofs. There are a number of possibilities ranging from bare concrete to tiles or even shingles. Flying shores is a system of providing temporary supports to the party walls of the two buildings where the intermediate building is to be pulled down and rebuilt figure 4 and 5. Light weight aggregate made it easy to nail on 3 8 re bar and plaster.

This one was quick using semi skilled folks. When planning a flat concrete roof you should also decide on what finish you want on it. Most lightweight concrete has a good r value and is a good insulator of heat and sound. All types of arrangements of supporting the unsafe structure in which the shores do not reach the ground come under this category.

After curing a week this panel was drug out of the form with a backhoe the owner plans on reinforcing fixing the lower mold since we need 5 more roof panels from it and the idea seems to be working. The ribs are reinforced concrete beams for a second. Conventional roofing materials are stripped by high winds and become part of the flying missile stream as well as. Expect the construction of a concrete roof to take a lot longer than a traditional roof since there are many more stages involved.

The first thing to note is that it is the reinforced concrete slab not the screed that keeps the water out. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. More or less a sand cast in an old creek bed. A well built and maintained concrete roof should last at least 200 years.

It must be correctly designed and constructed. This is the roof in my living room a shell shaped boveda.