Small House With Cement Roof

Concurrently the roof for a house is not a particularly large or costly element of the total cost of a house.

Small house with cement roof.

Material included in this concrete slab are wood structural iron portland c. Owners craig mayer and rick penland relax on the lanai or porch. For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers. Step 10 pouring the grout.

To make a grout you will need sand and portland cement. Take a bucket and mix 2 1 2 parts of the sand with 1 part of cement. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house.

So the recommended criteria for the minimum quality of the concrete to be used in an exposed concrete roof deck should be on the side of higher strength. Add some water to get a flowing consistency. A grout will hold the flat concrete roof in place. But today we will review the most trendy modern concrete flat roof house plans.

Regardless of how new or modern a house is there is a good chance that it will be topped off with a flat roof now but if you can t picture how great they look we. It should come as no wonder then that these are experiencing a serious comeback right now. In this video i m gonna show you how to make concrete slab roof of water tank. Pouring the concrete roof easy step building a country house traditional construction.

A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. The best news about building a small concrete block house is that it can be done by the average do it yourselfer in three to five days depending on the size and scope of the project. Due to the features of the design it would be extremely hard for this house to withstand the vagaries of the weather and heavy rain snowfall. Ask any architect and they ll tell you that hardly any other type of architecture is as timeless and modern as that of flat roof houses.

Step 1 dig and pour the footers at least 12 inches deep and twice the width of the block walls.