New Zealand roof self-checking and simple maintenance

Starting at the end of August each year, New Zealand's everything recovers and gradually enters its early spring season. At the turn of the season, it is still necessary to have a roof check on your house, which is usually recommended twice a year in New Zealand, in spring and autumn. Need to pay someone professional to help you check? Of course, if you're not bad money, feel free, but if you're not afraid of heights, you have adequate protection and enough confidence and hands-on ability to check on your own roof. After all, inspection is not "repair", quickly follow the following to carry out an "overview" of the roof, repair small problems, find large problems and ask professionals to repair.

If your roof is sloped (most common in New Zealand)

Check for any dark green, dark brown, brown stains that mean algae and fungi take root on the roof
Clean drains (cedes) to prevent falling leaves and silt from clogging
The tile-top houses, especially the "old tiles", may be blown by a winter wind and rain, and there will be small pieces of debris that need to be cleared
If you can see the discharge layer under the tiles, or if there is a large rust in the tin tiles, then you need to find someone to repair them and avoid leaking roofs
If your roof is flat (less common)

Check the flat top for cracks, New Zealand's flat top house, are more headaches
If there is air conditioning or exhaust equipment on the roof, check that the firmware secured to the roof is secure and rusty
If cracks, cracks, or waterproof layers are directly exposed, repair them immediately
Check the damage caused by the roof wind

Storms can wreak havoc on roofs, and unfortunately New Zealand often has high winds, heavy rain and storms during the winter months. In early spring, check the roof, if the tiles are lost or curled and cracked, you need to replace them immediately, and if the water leaks through the tiles, it will be more expensive to repair in the future.

Check on a piece-by-piece basis

Any blisters or spongy spots found during a roof inspection may mean that a professional roof repairman is required to repair or replace them.

Depending on the roof material, carry out a key inspection
Tin top

Focus on checking the iron connection and low-lying places whether there is water storage, rust, and even loopholes, timely repair or replacement of the entire iron roof is very important, remember in the rust-proof paint weak place, clean up, brush a special tin-top paint.

Tile top (concrete tile)

Shinwara need not worry too much, when the tile age of more than 15 years, the tile material has actually begun to appear aging and "fragile" phenomenon when the corners of the tile can easily fall off, while the tile may also be disconnected from the middle. Remember to check it out.

In addition, the top of the tile is easier to grow moss, when necessary sprayed with potions to kill moss. (Check out previous encyclopedic articles on how to kill moss from roofs)

Asphalt tile

Asphalt tile roofs are relatively new, not yet very much maintenance. The copper compounds produced by the copper-wire components added to them also kill algae and fungi that try to take root on the roof, so this tile is more worry-tinging. Asphalt tile in 15 to 20 years later is relatively easy to "foam", this time need to find professional roofers to carry out repairs.

Drains (sky ditches)

No matter what material of the roof, the trench must be cleaned up, otherwise, the accumulation of things inside all year round will become a bird's paradise and plant growth of the warmbed, once the trench damage, hundreds or even thousands of pieces to repair is not to run away, and the trench damage after the rain will form a "rain curtain", compared to the "unpleasant".
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