roofing
roofing
Definition
roof·ing (-iŋ)
noun
- the act of covering with a roof
- material for a roof or roofs
- a roof
roofing
Synonyms
roofing
n.
Varieties of roofing material include: felt, composition, roll roofing, shingles, wood shingles, composition shingles, asbestos, slate shingles, tile, asphalt, tar, shake, copper, tin, galvanized iron, thatch, straw, sod.
roofing
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- corrugate: Numbers have not grown as fast in Clifton as elsewhere as they seem to prefer gently sloping corrugated industrial roofing to chimney pots.
- feel: Construction Methods Outdoors, the track is laid on roofing felt on top of wooden boards, well treated with preservative.
- replace: Over a four day period we will remove and replace the profile roofing together with other ancillary work.
- include: This is a high grade resin suitable for many applications including roofing.
Adjective modifier
- pitched: One of the most common alterations made to older houses with pitched roofing is to convert the loft space into a habitable living space.
- polycarbonate: Our run is against the house and has a sloping roof, made of wooden beams with polycarbonate roofing layed on top.
- flat: Which is the most suitable resin to use for flat roofing?
- green: Green roofing is an emerging technology which involves the construction of a garden or green area on a roof.
Modifies a noun
- felt: Plastic floor tiles, cushion flooring, roofing felts, ropes, and blankets can also contain asbestos.
- slate: Concrete: some concrete roofing slates are designed to look like thick natural or stone slates.
- tile: We also found a large quantity of roofing tiles.
- contractor: She has a roofing contractor coming to visit to lay new roofing felt in her loft space.
- membrane: The commitment is to recycle at least 50 % of the collectible, available quantity of roofing membrane by 2005.
- material: Your roofing material will then hide the wire neatly.
Noun used with modifier
- single-ply: The main focus of the stand will be Ward's innovative Topdek all-in-one composite single-ply roofing solution.
- bitumen: They can be encouraged by the provision of refugia comprising sheets of bitumen roofing felt on the banks, beneath which they will shelter.
- ply: You've probably seen single ply roofing attached to buildings as sheets.
- slate: A piece of slate yields roofing slates at the rate of four to just over the inch.
- seam: Heavy insulation and standing seam aluminum roofing help retain heat to keep heating bills low.
- cement: The procedure is basically the same as that for asbestos cement roofing.
