A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house.
How to build a concrete roof.
Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick.
Standard hollow blocks laid on their face and supported between steel joists make a structurally sound roof and far surpasse any code requirements.
To make a grout you will need sand and portland cement.
Step 10 pouring the grout.
There are two ways to make a framework for a flat concrete roof.
In this video i m gonna show you how to make concrete slab roof of water tank.
For this step you will have to make the grout mixture.
Construction sloping roof concrete easy pour concrete step by step buiding skills.
Material included in this concrete slab are wood structural iron portland c.
You can either use removable concrete forms or forms that are made of concrete and insulate the house.
A newly developed system now allows roofs to be built from concrete block.
Take a bucket and mix 2 1 2 parts of the sand with 1 part of cement.
The concrete blocks are supported by steel joists that make concrete floors and roofs simple and affordable.
For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.
Add some water to get a flowing consistency.