How To Build A Concrete Roof House

Building features include 8 foot high cast in place exterior concrete walls concrete demising walls to the top of the roof wood frame interior walls and wood truss roofs.

How to build a concrete roof house.

One concern is that the concrete must develop the compressive strength intended by the structural engineer in the design of the roof deck. Pouring the concrete roof easy step building a country house traditional construction. Bassett says that mississippi recently adopted florida s wind code requirements so their homes are built to resist 146 mph winds. The steel joists will provide a strong foundation for the flat concrete.

Step 3 placing the steel joists. However the do it yourselfer can attach a wooden roof to cinder block with little or no training in one to two days depending on the size and scope of the project. The blocks come in several sizes but this guide will assume you are using a 16 3 4 inch wide concrete slab. For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.

Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Failure to create an attachment point will result in roof failure especially in high winds. The flat concrete roof itself can be up to 7 inches thick although the greater the thickness the more the concrete will need be poured in increasing numbers of layers with each.

You can either use removable concrete forms or forms that are made of concrete and insulate the house. One of the most crucial step in building a flat concrete roof is to figure out the size of the concrete block you will need. Attaching a wood roof to a cinder block building is difficult but possible.