Metal roof tiles. Metal roofing tile.
The metal tiles are a covering material that due to its usability, mounting simplicity and similarity of appearance with natural tiles has won a large popularity all over the world. The metal tiles have been invented in Finland.
The metal tiles are produced from galvanized steel in way of rolling and cold forming and is covered with polymer.
The metal tiles are widely used both for new building and repair of various buildings including the historical ones.
The metal is used for capital, low-rise construction and for building of small social and commercial facilities such as shops, cafes, bus stops as well.
The metal tiles differ with a light weight (that's why there isn't a need of construction of additional lathing and reinforcing), long-term durability and wide colour range. Moreover, the metal tiles are relatively inexpensive material and all the components are usually delivered together with the material.
There is a meaning that one of weighty disadvantages of the metal tiles is sufficiently high noise level while rain but this problem appears only by incorrect work technology of the roof mounting.
At the moment there are metal tiles of a wide colour range with various polymeric coatings and various geometries represented on the market.
The shape of metal tiles depends on equipment they are produced by.
The main types of metal tiles differ with quality and decorative parameters.
The quality parameters include:
- Raw materials i.e. steel, its thickness, the type of polymeric coating.
- Equipment which is used for manufacturing. The quality of equipment mostly depends on producer country.
The decorative parameters include:
- Geometry of wave.
- Colour of polymeric coating.
The quality of metal tiles is essentially confirmed by its guarantee period provided by producer and the presence of quality certificate.
The quality metal tiles have quality polymeric coating and the damage of this layer can lead to fading of metal tiles in result of sunlight exposure. Let's repeat that the change of colour will happened with almost every types of metal tiles but the quality metal tiles will fade evenly.