Warm Concrete Roof

The insulation can be adhered mechanically fixed or loose laid.

Warm concrete roof. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. They can be built up from profiled metal decks as the insulation selected would provide enough rigidity to span the open sections of such decks. The insulation is immediately below the waterproofing layer.

For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers. You can either use removable concrete forms or forms that are made of concrete and insulate the house. Warm roof insulation ensures the entire roof structure is insulated meaning a warm deck roof is more energy efficient than a cold roof. From this same 2008 issue of chemistry world magazine we learned that over two billion tons of concrete are produced every year.

This video will demonstrate how to install a cure it grp waterproofing system in a warm roof build up. The concrete deck can offer greater speed of roof construction which is an important consideration on many larger commercial projects. Inverted roofs have their waterproofing layer beneath the insulation instead of above it as in other forms of roofing. A cold flat roof insulation requires more work taking off old boards and replacing them and the roof surface.

In america modern concrete homes are becoming very very popular. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. The vapour control layer is above the decking but below the insulation. The breakdown warm roof vs cold roof.

Warm roof build ups can be installed on most modern construction material types such as concrete timber and timber based sheets. The flat concrete roof itself can be up to 7 inches thick although the greater the thickness the more the concrete will need be poured in increasing numbers of layers with each. The thermal efficiency isn t as good as with warm roof. A warm flat roof or a built up roof bur is one where all the insulation is above the joists deck making them part of the warm fabric of the building.

There are two ways to make a framework for a flat concrete roof. In warm roof construction the thermal insulation layer is installed above the structural deck. To insulate a flat roof with a concrete deck we recommend a warm deck construction method where the vapour control layer is sandwiched between the concrete deck and a layer of rigid pir insulation boards.