Friday 24 May 2013

Slate roofing – A Prominent Feature in Sydney


Sydney is a very famous city of Australia, established in 1788 and popular because of its scenic beauty. The temperature climate of Sydney is really warm and hot. However, they know how to keep themselves cool and chill. Sydney roofing are famous for their construction of houses, churches, hotels in the world. They use slate materials to make their roof different, classy as well as for keeping cool and refreshing atmosphere.

Slate is greyish, small grained rock comes from volcanic ash or flat rocks. There are different types of materials of slate like hematite, graphite, magnetite, and many more. You can make slate tiles for roof construction or it can be used in writing slate. It is useful for rooftop because it has very low water absorption, so that it can be safe from snowfall and rain damages.

Slate tiles are also used for flooring, wall covering, and pathways. There are numeral different sizes and shapes and colors too of Slate roofing Sydney based firms are well known in use of slate materials. You can distinguish these slates by different names like Countesses, Duchesses, Princesses, Narrow Countesses, Wide Ladies, Broad Ladies, Narrow Ladies, and Drains.

 It looks very unique and stylish and on the other hand it is fireproof. So whenever you get a chance to make your own house, try to prefer slate roofing for beautiful outlook and cooling effect. They surely make your home classy and trendy. If you use slate tiles in wall making then it gives you distinctive texture which attracts everyone, different colors of slate enhance its loveliness and uniqueness. It is also use in billiard boards and top of laboratory benches because of its thermal stability. In 19th century it is used for blackboards in a form of writing slates in schools. It also used in ancient civilization for different purposes.