Cooper roof. Cooper roof properties.
Cooper possesses outstanding characteristics; therefore it differs among possible variants of use of metal as roof covering. Cooper has already won masters' confidence. Its price is sufficiently reasonable – if you will compare the organization price of covering, gutters and drains, and also other elements from cooper with the price of separate elements from other materials, so obviously the first one would be not too much higher. Moreover cooper is at the moment of much higher price than the majority of famous covering due to its large number of advantages.
The main advantage of this material is striking durability and vitality of cooper sheet unlike such popular materials as classic roofing slate, galvanized sheet and ruberoid. And much more solid protection layer of oxide-patina can be get in the natural way from cooper with high content of phosphorus what the majority of cooper manufacturer do. Such covering becomes much more evenly dark in comparison with usual cooper. It's very stable to atmospheric agents' exposure that's why it keeps their properties and appearance around 100-150 years.
Due to this property the cooper roof doesn't require farther maintenance and careful, regular observations as it would be necessary by other types of coverings and drains that you must repeatedly clean out and paint. So the use of cooper by roof covering is economy of not only money and time but also nerve cells.
Moreover, due to the protective layer of oxide-patina the cooper roof will never become rusty in case of correct mounting and it doesn't contact with metal or aluminum. If you will repair the cooper roof the repair will be simple and easy even by the serious mechanical damages because this material is very strong, flexible and is easy to solder.
The cooper possesses the melting temperature of 1083?C and due to their properties doesn't undergo the exposure of diluted acids, caustic alkalies and also sea, sweet and industrial water and etc.
The unique cooper roof – bright under sunlight and of reddish metal colour (only just mounted), of noble bronze-brown colour (after two years of use), soon of mat-black colour and bright green after many years - will invariably serve more than a century.