In most cases, heavy roof tiles or concrete blocks are not suitable for roofing a garden house. The arbor is often not made of bricks but made of wood, so that the weight of this covering would be far too high. Instead, roofing felt or bitumen shingles are usually used. You can find out how to process these materials correctly and how uncomplicated it is in the following article.
Bitumen shingles are an attractive option for garden shed roofing
Roofing felt, the simplest variant
Roofing felt is a very inexpensive material. The cardboard soaked with sand, fine gravel or slivers of slate and bitumen is a reliable moisture barrier. However, heat and other weather influences degrade the roofing felt over the years. Roofing felt also has hardly any insulating properties, so that it gets very warm in the summer and very cold in the winter in the garden house (€24.90).
Laying roofing felt is extremely easy:
- Lay the flexible, large-format panels at right angles to the roof pitch, overlapping.
- Attach to roof decking with nails or staples.
- If necessary, attach several layers on top of each other for greater stability and durability.
Bitumen shingles: Attractive, robust and easy to work with
If you are building a new garden house, it is advisable to use the bitumen shingles that are most commonly used today and are much more durable for the roof covering. These are available in many modern designs and in various shingle shapes such as plain tiles or classic rectangles. This allows you to perfectly match the appearance of the roof to the surroundings and the garden design.
The material needed
- underlay sheet
- bitumen shingles
- Bitumen shingle adhesive
- connecting plates
- cap strips
- nails
This tool should be present:
- meter stick
- cutter knife
- hammer
Method:
- First of all, flashing membranes are laid parallel to the ridge on the wooden panels of the roof with an overlap of five centimetres.
- Work very cleanly and use as few nails as possible, this makes it easier to attach the bitumen shingles later.
- If you want to lay eaves strips, now is the right time to attach them to the eaves and gable.
- Bitumen shingles are attached offset. For the first row, the shingles are shortened to the end of the sheet incision or in half, depending on the model.
- In the first row start with a full tongue, in the second row with a half tongue, in the third row cut off a tongue. As a result, the butt joints are not on top of each other.
- Drive nails in straight. The heads must lie flush on the material so that it is not damaged.
- With roof pitches of more than 60 degrees, you should also fix the shingles with bitumen adhesive.
- The edge areas of the roof are sealed with adhesive, regardless of the slope.
- The ridge is laid in double coverage. The elastic bitumen shingles can be bent over the edge of the roof, the tongue must be up to the leaf incision of the previous shingle.
tips
A simple and quick way to make the roof of the garden house weatherproof is to cover the roof with corrugated bitumen sheets. For this, you should first build a wooden slatted frame onto which the corrugated sheets are then nailed.