How to repair roof in garage

How to repair roof in garage

If the roof of garage has leaked in one place, then for certain it will occur also in other places. Therefore before repairing roof in garage, it is necessary to study well surface regarding integrity. At the correct flooring of roof from soft rolled materials, it serves about 6 years and if to watch its purity, and longer.

It is required to you

  • - knife;
  • - axe;
  • - blowpipe;
  • - construction hair dryer;
  • - bituminous mastic;
  • - bucket;
  • - roofing material.

Instruction

1. Choose convenient time for works, you should not do repair of roof of garage in damp or freezing weather. You remember, all works on flooring of soft roof for achievement of the necessary result should be performed in warm and dry weather.

2. First of all prepare the basis. Remove from the site which is exposed to repair, all dirt and foreign objects. Define damage type. Most often such damages of soft roof as cracks, swellings, divergence of joints meet. If this swelling or, the opening for some reason formed, then act as follows.

3. Cut the problem place on four parts so that the cross line has turned out. Unbend edges and press them to the basis that they did not disturb you.

4. Remove all pollution from affected area and remove all moisture. Either the gas burner, or the construction hair dryer will help to cope with the last to you.

5. Miss the mark the basis with special bituminous mastic to provide waterproofing and the best pasting of materials.

6. Cut off piece of rolled material of the necessary size and lay inside as patch. Press it and atop miss the mark with bitumen. Unbend edges back.

7. On the turned-out design paste one more patch so that its edges blocked the repaired site on 15 cm. Process everything mastic.

8. Also clean seams from dirt and, coating with asphalt grouts, cover with the cut strips of rolled materials. You watch that patches went with overlap, as when laying slate or tile. It will not give to water the excess chance to filter into joints, and will take away it on the set inclination.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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