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  2. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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    Heavy stone slabs (not to be confused with slate) 12 inches thick were formerly used as roofing tiles in some regions in England, the Alps, and Scandinavia. Stone slabs require a very heavyweight roof structure, but their weight makes them stormproof. An obsolete roofing material, now used commercially only for building restoration.

  3. Asbestos cement - Wikipedia

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    Flat sheets for house walls and ceilings were usually 6 and 4.5 mm (0.24 and 0.18 in) thick, 900 and 1,200 mm (35 and 47 in) wide, and from 1,800 to 3,000 mm (71 to 118 in) long. Battens 50 mm (2.0 in) wide × 8 mm (0.31 in) thick, used to cover the joints in fibro sheets. "Super Six" corrugated roof sheeting and fencing.

  4. Corrugated galvanised iron - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia), is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised ...

  5. Fibre cement - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated sheets Along with the above applications, fibre cement boards can be used for a Mezzanine floor, Facade, External fins, Deck covering, Roof Underlay, Acoustix etc. Fibre-cement products have found wide usage in various sectors of construction: industrial, agricultural, domestic and residential buildings, mainly in roofing and ...

  6. Corrugated - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated galvanised iron, a building material composed of sheets of cold-rolled hot-dip galvanised mild steel; Corrugated plastic, a wide range of extruded twinwall plastic-sheet products produced from high-impact polypropylene resin; Corrugated stainless steel tubing, tubing made of stainless steel with corrugation on the inside or outside

  7. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Building codes in the U.S. specify ventilation rates as a minimum of 1 sq ft (0.093 m 2) of opening per 150 sq ft (14 m 2) (1:150) with a ratio of 1:300 in some conditions. [8] Warm air rises, so ceiling insulation is designed to have a higher r-value and the insulation is often installed between the ceiling joists or rafters.

  8. Corrugated stainless steel tubing - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) is tubing made of stainless steel with corrugation on the inside or outside. CSST is not FAC (Flexible Appliance Connector) tubing. Presently, CSST and FAC tubing both use corrugated stainless steel tubing. In the past, FAC used corrugated brass tubing. However, FAC tubing is made only in lengths of 1 to ...

  9. Asphalt roll roofing - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt roll roofing or membrane is a roofing material commonly used for buildings that feature a low sloped roof pitch in North America. The material is based on the same materials used in asphalt shingles; an organic felt or fiberglass mat, saturated with asphalt, and faced with granular stone aggregate. [1]