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Williams PAUCHET: Former National Defense contractor and freelancer - Site management trainer
INTRODUCTION
Various materials, such as bitumen or asphalt, can be used to waterproof flat roofs. These materials are often used for simple waterproofing, with no other function than to ensure the roof's impermeability.
The substrates on which these waterproofing materials are applied must be suitable for the products used. To achieve this, they must have exceptional technical construction and finishing characteristics, so that the different types of products offered by manufacturers can fulfill their waterproofing functions.
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Standards
- Waterproofing – Flexible bitumen screed reinforced with glass fabric and self-protected by thermostable 40 T.V.-th metal foil – Definition and characteristics - NF P84-316 - (juin 2010)
- Bitumes et liants bitumineux. Détermination de la pénétrabilité à l'aiguille. - NF EN 1426 - (décembre 1999)
- Bitumen and bituminous binders and binders – Determining the softening temperature – Ball-and-ring method - NF EN 1427 -...
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