The roof of the garage is one of the most “painful” places of the structure and the cause of constant cash injection by the owner. Most often, the waterproofing material on the roof is damaged mechanically for reasons without depending on the owner: the fall of large dry branches or the tricks of neighboring boys, etc. p. Or maybe the new garage owner simply decided to update what was inherited from the previous owner.
You can repair the roof of your garage yourself without any serious costs in the presence of the minimum volume of knowledge and skills, having only a small volume of materials.
Consumables and tools
Despite the fact that the repair of the soft roof of the garage is not so expensive on its own, to avoid a visit to a construction store, most likely you will not succeed. The main thing to purchase is the waterproofing material itself. The most common solution to this issue is roofing ground. Bitumen material on a cardboard basis costs inexpensively, glides well, keeps the water for a long time.
In order to stick rooferoids, it must be heated well. You can do this with a propane burner or a cheaper soldering lamp. Although the lamp can serve you with a “bear”, having required 4-5 times more time to warm up the roofing material, since its flame is much weaker than that more expensive professional propane burner.
From the accompanying things and tools, a seasoned gas cylinder for a burner, a staircase will be required to climb the roof of the garage, and the rope to raise all the material and the tool upstairs. Since the roof must be cleaned from leaves, branches and other debris in front of the roofing roofing room, it will be good if you take a broom with you upstairs or a small panicle.
For the correct choice of sizes and cutting the roofing material, you will also need a roulette and a boot (or mounting) knife. It is most convenient to cut the roofing material by applying a metal object used as a ruler along the cutting line.
The process of gluing roofing material
Let the foregoing about the simplicity of the process not mislead you: when gluing roofing material, there are small tricks and rules.
Firstly, do not regret the “blue” fuel and burn it as much as it is necessary for the full and high-quality heating of waterproofing material. Pay special attention to the corners – often they warm up worse than the rest of the canvas and, as a result, peel off over time or are not glued initially. Remember that under an unnecessed corner, water will necessarily gather, and then this water will freeze, forming a leak in a holistic layer of waterproofing material.
Secondly, the old roofing can be left in its place, having previously removed all air and water pockets, which can become a potential place of detachment of a new waterproofing layer. Gluing on top of the old roofing material is also preferable because adhesion of homogeneous materials to each other is much higher than the adhesion of roofing material, for example, to the concrete slab of the overlap.
We warm up the area of the roofing material that we can glue the roofing roofing room in one passage in one pass. After the material is heated (it is more careful here: the propane burner gives up to 600 OS), we unfold the roll into one revolution with our foot and, smoothing it in different directions with a “Christmas tree” as a wallpaper, we glue with slight pressure on the material.
Thus, we pass the entire length of the roof of the garage. When connecting the paintings of roofing material on the length, it is necessary to observe a overlap of 15 cm – this is the golden rule of a professional roofer.
If, nevertheless, the old layer of the roofing material was removed completely or partially, then the surface of the concrete slab of the floor before gluing is treated with a bitumen primer to improve the quality of rubber gluing.
Separately, it should be noted the method of waterproofing the waterproofing of water intakes, if any on the roof of your garage. The waterproofing there is put in two or three layers (squares) in order to strengthen this place with the action of external atmospheric loads on it.
