Zinc-titanium is an excellent roofing and facade material having a long service life and perfectly adaptable to mechanical processing. The main application of sheet zinc-titanium is tiling or folding coverings for finishing roofs and facades of the houses. Zinc-titanium history Using zinc in construction lies deep. And in the end of 1960s one managed to improve qualities of the metal by cleaning it from impurities and compounding a complex of admixtures from titanium, copper and aluminum.

Designing the roof is a pretty complicated process requiring an executor’s professional expertise. There are quite many constructions and configurations of roofs. The choice depends on both aesthetic considerations and the conception of the building and also the presence or absence of attic, location of chimneys and an air ducts, necessity of arrangement of additional security elements – snow retention and connecting gangways. Stages of a roof design development The first stage of designing roofs is a choice of the form of roofing construction. • Flat; • Single-pitch; • Double-pitch; • Hipped; • Tent; • Mansard; • Multi-gable; • Multi-level. Types of roofs in configuration The second stage of designing roofs is a choice of a roofing material. For different roofing coverings there are certain tilt angle restrictions for slopes.

African interior design has a direct relation to ethnic styles because a variety of traditional details, national ornaments and a décor typical for the hot African continent are applied to its realization in the room. African style gives an interior brightness, liveliness, directness and fills it with powerful positive energy. African interior in exotic type of ethnic style will be fashionable and popular at any times because national motives in the rooms’ decoration came through many centuries but didn’t lose their recency and originality. Techniques of afro-interior design There are two techniques of designing interior in African style.

Hammam or Turkish bath has nothing common with Finnish saunas or Russian baths. Hammam premises are decorated inside with the use of natural stone. Along the walls there are benches for which facing of natural marble was used. And a humid air is filled with herbs’ and balms’ smell. The best material for hammam finishing Hammam facing is often performed in oriental style using marble slabs and mosaic.

Renovation of the roof is roofing works directed to prepare the roof for service. In some cases even a professional installation of the roof is not an absolute guarantee that it can provide a total protection of the building from the effects of atmospheric precipitation. As a result there is a need for repairs. Roof is an important element in the architecture of any building that saves rigidity of the whole construction and resist from external deformation loads. Roof covering provides a protection of the roof and the whole construction from the sun, atmospheric precipitation, wind and snow.

Grinding of natural stone gives a possibility to get a matte surface with uniform roughness. The surface relief irregularities are no more than 0,5 mm. Grinding of stone is performed with special equipment – rotor and grinding machines which are equipped with diamond or abrasive tools. The main advantage of a grinded surface is that it’s not slippery. So this kind of processing is often used when making stairs and floors in wet rooms. Grinding as a finishing stage of processing is often performed on stone with no peculiar pattern or color in order not to lose that magic magnificence which can be achieved on more interesting stones after polishing.

Combined processing of natural stone is a combination of various traditional techniques of processing which as a whole allow getting unusual decorative effects on the surface of the material. In Russia a combined processing of natural stone had not been very popular till recently; it had been an expensive product, not affordable for most people. But now with the development and improvement of technologies and techniques of processing stone a combined processing became more available. Variants of processing of natural stone Combined processing of natural stone allows getting a surface imitating natural skin and other materials which have textures.

Engineering systems require special attention because they are an important part of any modern building as well as basic building constructions. As a rule installation of engineering systems is being performed during construction or general overhaul of the building.

Marble, granite, onyx and other stones for fireplace cladding: design options, material selection and completed RADEKA projects.