Clinets is currently exceptionally elite and quite expensive roofing material, but this was not always the case. Just 2 centuries ago, slate was used as fuel and burned in pomda and in the tops of industrial plants instead of firewood and coal. This was widely practiced in America, since the slate was not mined there, but fell into the country in the form of ballast for ships that returned from Europe to the United States. Then the shaft reserves were so great that enterprising Americans began to use it together with the tiles – to install roofs of houses. The tiles were many times superior to the slate in value and often inferior in quality. Due to its affordable cost, slate spread throughout the United States and, of course, was not considered elite. However, when the high quality characteristics of the shale roofs gained fame, a real shale boom began. Slantsy brought from Europe, it became sharply missing at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Then the Americans took care of the prey of natural shale in their country. But the American reserves very soon also stopped enough, due to which from the category of publicly available roofing material, the slate immediately moved to the category of elite. In architectural styles, the 20th century brought new changes. The roof ceased to be considered as a utilitarian and very quickly became an extremely important part of any building. Natural slaps have a variety of shades that can be perfectly used when introducing various design solutions into projects. Due to the plasticity of the shale, there are wide opportunities for the construction of roofs of any complexity. Natural slate can be used in the design of completely different styles: from Victorian and Gothic to modern styles and “Hi-Tech”. If you compare the slate with tiles, it can easily understand that it is simply impossible to create a similar range of complex drawings using tiles, this also applies to all other currently common roofing materials.
However, it would be mistaken to believe that no one knew about the shale roofs to the inhabitants of America. In Europe, such roofs have been used for a long time, but they did not have such a widespread use as in the United States. In various countries of Europe, their own ways to lay shale tiles were used, which often radically differed among themselves. While in America there was a “shale boom”, the interest in shale in Europe gradually faded, since all the reserves of the shale by that time were practically exhausted and Europeans preferred to use more modern and cheap roofing materials. It should be noted that natural slate is exclusively environmentally friendly material, which in the 21st century is an important characteristic for any material. The natural beauty of natural shale for the new building provides an excellent design “under the old man”, gives unique painting the roof. The decorative properties of the shale are perfectly combined with the durability and strength of the shale roof. But here one important factor begins to play a role: all its qualities, such a roof gets only as a result of painstaking manual work of a professional master-building. The shale roof in Russia began to be widely used after the Slavnets again won Europe. The need for a shale roof in Russian conditions is primarily dictated by prestige issues. Domestic developers very positively evaluated the individual nature of the use of the shale, as well as the original appearance of the elite roof created “under the old days” perfectly approached the local conditions. The operational characteristics that determine the sufficient practicality of such a roof also played an important role in this. Shtets is a frost -resistant material, durable and wear -resistant. The heat -insulating indicators of the shale are also at a very high level. One of the main requirements for the shale roof in fairly difficult climatic conditions of Russia is to withstand snow load, often a very large. Shanet copes with all these requirements perfectly. The durability of the shale roof even in Russian conditions is at least 200 years, so the service life of the shale roof can be compared with the service life of the most durable and strong materials that are used to build the foundations and walls of the buildings. In addition, slate is absolutely harmless building materials for humans, since it does not have all sorts of harmful additives. Currently, shale roofs are supplied to the Russian construction market from Germany.