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RoofKrete is the ONLY roofing material to help you
sustain your local environment as per the proposals of
AGENDA 21. Interested? Read on:
Roofing materials tend to be out of sight on top of
buildings and not considered of great interest until they go
wrong and leak, from whatever cause.
In fact, roofs cost a considerable amount of money, when
they are built and when they go wrong, because they not
only cause inconvenience for the inhabitants, leaks often
cause major structural decay in the buildings they are
protecting.
Initially, they are costly, accounting for 20% of the building
costs and are a constant maintenance problem with due
costs and being out of sight, simple problems often go
undetected until they show up when they have become a
major problem.
The materials used to cover roofs are fast using up our
fragile resources, petrochemicals and mined materials
copper or lead. They are certainly NOT sustainable
materials and are themselves subject to RAPID decay
and can also damage health, environment and water
courses.
RoofKrete has NONE of the above problems. It costs
about the same as any quality roofing material, slightly
less than most, but in a whole life costing of the primary
life of a building such as a school, it can save MANY
MILLIONS of pounds. It will protect the environment and
the building and give its inhabitants a far greater degree of
protection.
RoofKrete has been totally trouble free in use over 20
years in the south west as a flat roofing material
Portsmouth University Testing Facility considers it to
have a life of at least 100 years but say in practical use it
will outlast the primary use of any building it is protecting
because there is no weathering mechanism to cause
decay of its naturally occurring materials. In fact
RoofKrete grows stronger as the years pass. No other
roofing material does that!
RoofKrete is the only roofing material which is a 'once
only' use roofing material. (All others materials decay and
therefore new materials are constantly being used many
times to re-roof a building during its primary life, besides
needing repair and maintenance)
RoofKrete requires NO maintenance, NO repairs, NO
RENEWAL during the primary life of any building it is
protecting, unlike ANY other roofing material and can be
used by ordinary workmen after a course of instruction, so
no costly training sessions.
RoofKrete is the ONLY roofing material to be awarded the
"Millennium Products" marque by the design council
under Tony Blair’s initiative. No other roofing membrane
has been awarded this marque.
RoofKrete uses one extraction of naturally occurring
materials at time of manufacture. RoofKrete materials are
natural mined resources that are in plentiful supply all over
the globe and are not harmful to the environment. Its basic
ingredient is sand, the worlds MOST plentiful resource. In
spite of that, RoofKrete's use of sand is very sparing as
the thickness of a RoofKrete membrane is from only 5
mm thick.
RoofKrete can be usefully used at the end of it's life it
does not need to end up in a landfill site as do other
roofing materials. In fact the disposal of decaying
bituminous roofing products in landfill sites ought to be a
cause for concern by local authorities. As
petrochemicals break down, hydrocarbons slowly
percolate into the ground water and will eventually be a
major concern for the water companies. Currently,
roofing contractors probably renew one flat roof a day,
the resulting old roofing felt going into a skip, destined
for a land fill site. A 100 square metre roof will probably
need something like three skips to remove the hacked
off decaying bituminous felt debris. There are 5,000
roofing contractors in the UK. Imagine what is already in
local authority land fill sites without thought for the
future. RoofKrete can bring this problem to a swift halt.
RoofKrete is sourced from a plentiful supply of natural
materials that are harmless to the environment and will
not affect very valuable future resources as do other
roofing materials. Resources that should be kept for
other essential needs in the centuries to come.
RoofKrete is TOTALLY WATERPROOF.
It does not ABSORB water in the slightest degree.
RoofKrete is FIREPROOF.
It does not melt at temperatures of 1,000 degrees C.
plus.
RoofKrete is VANDAL resistant to a huge extent.
It needs pneumatic power tools to damage it, unlike
roofing felt, or single ply membranes that only need a
penknife to cause damage .
RoofKrete is TRAFFIC PROOF.
RoofKrete is used to surface car-parks. Other roofing
materials cannot even start to compare in this way.
RoofKrete is capable of being shaped and sculptured in
a way that other flat roofing materials cannot follow and
still remain waterproof.
This makes it an ideal roofing material for architects,
they no longer need to remain restricted as they are
currently, to flat boring roof shapes.
RoofKrete has a long history of usage, in fact, already
during the time it has been in use in the UK, most other
flat roofing materials will have been replaced at least
once.
RoofKrete is not restricted to flat roofs. It can be used
for pitched roofs, car-park surfacing and waterproofing,
tanking, cladding panels, fireproofing in fact the list is
endless. It is a new building material in its own right, with
ALL the added advantages of what has been described
above.
Local Authorities complying with LA21 should begin
specifying RoofKrete System 4 to improve the future of
local communities.
There are fully trained experienced RoofKrete
contractors around the country to satisfy the
requirement for competitive tendering. These well
established reputable contractors will confirm what we
have mentioned above.
We have the documentary and scientific proof to back
up everything we've stated.
by Neville Hutchinson 1999
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