Mastic or bitumen was the most common material used to adhere the stone chip to the pressed metal at that time.
How to paint decramastic roof tiles.
So what are decramastic roof sheets.
Latest decramastic roof replacement job.
Restoning and painting process.
After the first color coat of either tileflex 2000 or nxt cool coat is completely touch dry between 30 60 minutes maybe longer in cold weather apply second color coat of tileflex 2000 or nxt cool coat.
New fixings underlay and if needed battens are used.
Leaks are no longer a problem.
Asbestos in early pressed metal stone coated roofing tiles prior to early 1980s.
This process is done sheet by sheet.
If you want to restore your roof to give it the original shine roofbond roof paint clear glaze is the ideal option.
Lastly decragard ec topcoat is applied to evenly cover the newly textured tiles.
They are galvanized steel pressed metal roofing sheet which were popular in the 1970 s 1980 s as a roofing material.
A coat of membrane is applied to the sheet then the stone is applied to the coat of membrane while the membrane is wet.
This is a more detailed picture of another job where the tiles were in a state of disrepair and the homeowner wanted to colour match a new colorbond roof as a replacement similar to the job above.
Apply one coat of shieldseal w with 517 airless tip.
This process is applied across the whole of the roof area.
The surface will be dry in 4 5 hours and hard dry in 4 5 days.
Some versions of mastic or bitumen based pressed metal roof tiles produced prior to the early 1980s contain asbestos.
While a concrete tile roof on an average home can weigh around 10 tonnes the equivalent metrotile satin finish steel tile roof.
They were formed into the shape of 5 tiles and coated with a bitumen coating with a fine stone aggregate embedded in the coating.
Rust treatments are applied as required.
Decragard bituminous primer roof coating is applied after the rust treatment and the entire roof area is rechipped.
Apply two coats of roofbond roof paint with 517 airless tip either clear glaze or coloured.
Decramastic roof tiles are replaced in sections.
Then another coat is applied to the stone to ensure the stone is secured to the sheet.
