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  2. Bituminous waterproofing - Wikipedia

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    Replacing the roofing felt on a Scout hall in Wales. Bituminous waterproofing systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings.Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a material made up of organic liquids that are highly sticky, viscous, and waterproof. [1]

  3. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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    Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...

  4. 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.

  5. Asphalt shingle - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt shingles on a home in Avalon, New Jersey. Two types of base materials are used to make asphalt shingles, organic and fiberglass.Both are made in a similar manner, with an asphalt-saturated base covered on one or both sides with asphalt or modified-asphalt, the exposed surface impregnated with slate, schist, quartz, vitrified brick, stone, [6] or ceramic granules, and the under-side ...

  6. Braas Monier Building Group - Wikipedia

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    Wildlife visitor centre near Colchester, Essex, UK with "Cambrian Slate" from Redland The Grand Hyatt Hotel in Goa, India, with "Elabana" concrete roof tiles from Monier India. The following international product brands are part of Braas Monier Building Group: Braas Braas is the Group's brand for Germany, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey ...

  7. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    An asphalt shingle roof has flexible asphalt shingles as the ridge cap. Some roof shingles are non-combustible or have a better fire rating than others which influence their use, some building codes do not allow the use of shingles with less than a class-A fire rating to be used on some types of buildings. Due to increased fire hazard, wood ...

  8. BBB Reveals America's Most Complained-About Businesses - AOL

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    Regardless, you're more likely to have a good experience dealing with a business if you check it out first, to make sure it doesn't have any red flags waving over it.

  9. Membrane roofing - Wikipedia

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    The finished roof's thickness is usually between 30 and 120 mils (thousandths of an inch; 0.75 mm to 1.50 mm). The most commonly used cured elastomer membranes are ethylene propylene diene monomer (commonly EPDM) and neoprene, although all thermoset products combined fail to account for more than 10% of all commercial roofing. This is in part ...