History Of Roofing In Ireland

The thatched roof cottage with whitewashed walls is a powerful symbol of ireland often featured on postcards.

History of roofing in ireland. A weather tight roof is basic in the preservation of a structure regardless of its age size or design. Indeed if you look up at the roofs of many of the country s pre 20th century buildings the chances are that the roofs are slated with original penrhyn blue bangor slates. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in. With its reputation for quality craftsmanship and customer satisfaction the company has expanded to serve new castle beaver aliquippa ambridge and now the ohio.

In the system that allows a building to work as a shelter the roof sheds the rain shades from the sun and buffers the weather. This quaint traditional image immediately represents ireland for many people throughout the world. Penrhyn bangor blue roofing slates have been coming into ireland for the last 600 years in the days pre dating manufactured roofing materials blue bangor slates were the traditional roof covering in ireland. 2 roof structures and materials.

Even when i was attending the international federation of roofing trades congress in dublin ireland a few years ago no one there knew anything about irish roofing slate nor could anyone produce one for me to look at. The roofing slate of ireland. 4 identifying and assessing problems in roofs. 5 repairing a historic roof.

6 new materials and technologies. Corrugated galvanised iron or steel colloquially corrugated iron near universal wriggly tin taken from uk military slang pailing in caribbean english corrugated sheet metal in north america and occasionally abbreviated cgi is a building material composed of sheets of hot dip galvanised mild steel cold rolled to produce a linear corrugated pattern in them. Who knows anything about irish roofing slate. Download repair of historic roofs pdf.

3 cladding materials and methods. Roofing contractors sponsored companies grange construction roofing company limited grange roofing offer commercial and industrial roof maintenance contracts throughout ireland at competitive rates. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge cladium mariscus rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation. Those materials have a long history and their evolution has been largely driven by performance.

It wasn t until mary lou willits of the slate valley museum in granville new york. During some periods in the history of architecture the roof imparts much of the architectural character. Ireland contracting specializing in home improvement and roofing started by serving pittsburgh s north hills areas of wexford cranberry glenshaw allison park and gibsonia.