For the choice of roof tiles, stone coated metal roof tiles and glazed tiles are two more popular products, but also the current building uses more of the two products. Construction is a long-term consumer good, so the quality of building materials will also be higher requirements, For the stone coated metal roof tiles and glazed tiles, which product has a longer service life?
Of all the roof tile types, glazed tiles arguably have the longest history. With the development of ancient Chinese porcelain kiln technology, glazed tiles are also used in a large number of building roofs. Superior quality glazed tile surface glaze using special technical processing can bring the building to life. The ancient use of glazed tiles also had a strict hierarchy, generally used for the imperial court nobles and palaces and temples.
With the development of the times, glazed tiles have come into common families. At the same time, the process of glazed tile has also produced great changes. Today's glazed tiles are usually produced in mass production, firing, and glazing processes to pursue efficiency, while the ancient glazed tile production process has a very big difference.
Ceramic glazed tiles have the longest service life among all types of glazed tiles. These glazed tiles are made of fired clay and the glaze on the surface is fine-tuned, making the product highly stable and unaffected by adverse weather conditions.
However, most of the glazed tiles on the market today are usually ordinary-colored glazed tiles. Their bright and colorful appearance is suitable for application scenarios such as cultural tourism, villas, and self-built houses. However, the life span may be shortened under extreme climatic conditions, and the stability of the exterior color is also easily affected by weather conditions, such as ultraviolet rays and acid rain.
The history of the use of stone coated metal roof tiles is not as long as glazed tile, the rise in the country is only about twenty years, but it has become a popular product in the current roofing building materials market.
Stone coated metal roof tiles use aluminum-zinc-plated steel sheets as the substrate, together with fingerprint-resistant coating and acrylic resin as the adhesive, and a layer of high-temperature sintered basalt-colored sand is attached to the surface. The substrate is corrosion-resistant, the colored sand on the surface can isolate ultraviolet rays, the product stability is very high, and the service life can reach more than 50 years.
In addition, the style and color of stone coated metal roof tiles are very rich, the metal material is easy to cut, and the color of the colored sand on the surface can be customized, which can be used in a wide range of scenes. Stone coated metal roof tiles belong to metal building materials and can be recycled, to save resources, green environmental protection.
Regarding which one of the glazed tiles and stone coated metal roof tiles has a longer service life, one thing that can be made clear is that the ceramic glazed tiles must have the longest service life. However, this kind of tile has a high cost and a long production cycle, which often can't be done with the glazed tiles on the market now. Stone coated metal roof tiles have many styles, rich colors, long service life, and cost-effective features, whether it is home self-built houses, villa areas, cultural tourism projects, hotels, and lodgings, etc., it is a more suitable roofing building material.
