Light Weight Concrete Roof
The use of lightweight concrete as a roof decking and insulation system has expanded in the past five years.
Light weight concrete roof. With standard structural concrete the aggregate used is sand and stone. With onsite mixing as well as laying by our professional team we have the technical know how in finishing a concrete roof or deck effectively. Profiles are a fraction of the weight of our conventional roof tiles and are perfect for re roof projects. The end result of the structural lightweight mix is a deck that can be 20 25 lighter than standard structural concrete.
Our lightweight concrete is custom blended as per the weight and thickness required for each particular job. Eaglelite is our lightweight fire safe roof tile that is available in some of our most established profiles and colors. 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. Increased usage can be attributed to the recent industry wide insulation shortages and delamination deficiencies.
With structural lightweight concrete a mix of shale slate slag and clay are used and with this mix the aggregate is fully saturated prior to mixing. Beneath the roof cover structural concrete roof decks are commonly topside insulated using adhered insulation panels or cast in place lightweight insulating concrete. Flat concrete roof tiles refer to a variety of profiles completely lacking in any barrels or rolls. Our sub six profiles and our flat lightweight 720 lbs.
Lightweight concrete mixture is made with a lightweight coarse aggregate and sometimes a portion or entire fine aggregates may be lightweight instead of normal aggregates. The increase can also be attributed to the economic and environmental advantages that lightweight insulating concrete lwic provides in roof assemblies. Vermiculite for roof decks can be placed over various kinds of form boards fiber fiberglass acoustical and asbestos cement as well as over paper back wire lath. Cellucrete has established itself as the leader in the lightweight insulating concrete industry with a proven track record of high quality installations throughout the.
Structural concrete composite deck a supported steel panel deck system filled with normal weight or structural lightweight concrete. Researchers at the the technical school eth zurich have constructed a unique lightweight concrete ceiling by mixing computational design 3d printing and pre. Structural lightweight concrete has an in place density unit weight on the order of 90 to 115 lb ft 1440 to 1840 kg m.