Your Flat Roof Requires Careful Care And Maintenance

Does your property have a flat roof?  If you do have one in your home then something that you have quite probably found out is that they seem to leak more often that other roofs in a home.  Flat roofing is not really architecturally well-grounded.  Pitched roofs ,meaning typical sloped roofs, tend to last a lot longer and need a lot less maintenance than flat roofs. 

Slanted roofs function better in most regards because water naturally slides off them, which protects the layers from on-going damage.  Thus, they don't tend to leak as much and moisture will not collect on them as it can on a flat roof which can then dribble through the layers of the roof past the wooden joists and then onto the plaster ceiling below. This is an issue with all flat roofs, even with those like the epdm roofing that use the new more high tech materials.

In spite of the problems of flat roofs many house designs still use them in some part of the building.  For example it might cover a kitchen annex or some other type of annex at the back of a house. 

Since flat roofs are so much more likely to leak its very important that home owners knows how to keep them maintained in good order and to preserve their life and functional use for a long time.  Maintenance is explained in some detail at the flat roofing site. When maintaining a flat roof one advantage you'll find is that you can easily walk on the roof surface to carry out maintenance. 

The extra accessibility of a flat roof can also be a disadvantage because a problem you have with flat roofing is that garbage can take root on it.  Debris can be things such as leaves or branches.  A very important part of flat roof maintenance is that you should periodically clear any branches, soil, or weeds that land on it.  If you don't you can actually find weeds, grass and other plants growing on the surface. These will then cause surface damage and cracking.