We provide you with a full roofing system, ensuring all individual parts are designed to work together to create a harmonious system that offers superior durability. All IKO PLC components are designed and manufactured to ensure true compatibility with each other and offer a perfectly integrated roofing system. Browse our roofing systems below to find out the most appropriate solution for your project.
Warm Roof System
IKO produces a wide range of versatile roofing systems both for flat and pitched roof applications including Hot Melt, Mastic Asphalt, Bituminous Membranes, Cold Applied Liquids, Single Ply and associated Insulation products and accessories. Based on your project requirements, we can give you advice on choosing the most appropriate roofing solutions for your needs.
We provide you with a full roofing system where all individual parts are designed to work together to create a harmonious system that offers superior durability. All IKO PLC components are designed and manufactured to ensure true compatibility with each other and offer a perfectly integrated roofing system. Browse our roofing systems below to find out the most appropriate solution for your project.If you are unsure which roofing system is right for your requirements, try our Roofing Selector Tool to get instant advice or contact your local Area Business Manager.
Cold Roof System
Cold flat roof system configuration places insulation within a ventilated void space below the roof deck and above the internal ceiling. This form of roof design is no longer recommended, as proper ventilation and effective vapour control at ceiling, level are difficult to achieve. Other hybrid roofs sometimes have insulation both above the deck and inside an internal void (below the deck). This can result in serious condensation problems unless the insulation thickness above and below the deck can be balanced. Depending on internal humidity, this can be impossible to achieve, in which case this type of hybrid roof is not recommended.
Composite insulated decking panels are also available. These must be installed strictly according to the manufacturer’s instructions, and their use over high humidity areas will often be restricted.
Green Roof System
Green roofs are also known as eco-roofs and are designed to create more outdoor space. Over the last 15 years, green roofs have been used to maximise the occupational space within a new building.
We have seen a wide range of recreational uses including running tracks, football pitches and gardens. IKO can support the design and specification for both extensive and intensive green roofs depending on the design brief. They are popular within urban environments; unlike brown roofs, these are spaces that can be used not just by the wildlife.
The benefits of these green roofs include thermal efficiency, more space for the occupier, which will ultimately impact the client’s asset.
IKO have both a BUR Felt solution IKO Roofgarden and our Hotmelt Anti-Root which are both suitable for use within a brown roof installation. Specifications will be recommended in line with your overall scheme requirements.
Inverted Roof System
Where extruded polystyrene insulation is placed above the waterproofing layer and loaded with ballast, paving slabs or roof garden finishes. This is a satisfactory roof design, particularly where a roof finish will receive pedestrian and other traffic. However, a greater thickness of insulation is needed to allow for the cooling effect of water draining beneath insulation and the supporting structure must be designed to accommodate the additional loading required for the insulation. An inverted roof needs no additional vapour control layer, as the waterproofing also performs the function of the VCL.
Brown Roof Systems
Brown roofs traditionally are self-vegetate substrates where windblown and wildlife migration of seeds create the roof finish. They are popular within urban environments and are designed to replicate what has been removed from the area prior to construction. Often this is a wonderful use of the excavated material and one that is often a criterion of the build. However, caution should be shown to ensure no ‘building material’ is caught up in this and damage the waterproofing. IKO have both a BUR Felt solution IKO Roofgarden along with our Hotmelt Anti-Root which are both suitable for use within a brown roof installation. Specifications will be recommended in line with your overall scheme requirements. For more information please contact our design support time who will be happy to help.
Podium Roof System
With the increased need to provide outdoor space, it is now more common than ever to create podium or plaza areas from which commercial or private use can be enjoyed. Commonly as landscaped areas or car parking. The waterproofing of these areas is critical to investigate leaks once the finished levels have been installed. The areas used daily will lead to significant disruptions and potentially consequential losses for the building owner.
For support in the design as early as the concept stage please contact IKO and we can work with you to ensure your design meets your building’s needs and prevents potential problems later into the scheme or worse once the project has been handed over.
IKO has developed both cold and hot-applied solutions for podium deck applications fully bonded to the structure to remain watertight through the general expansion and contraction of structures. For more information click below:
Ballasted Roof System
All IKO PLC components are designed and manufactured to ensure true compatibility with each other and offer a perfectly integrated roofing system.Browse our roofing systems below to find out the most appropriate solution for your project. If you are unsure which roofing system is right for your requirements, try our Roofing Selector Tool to get instant advice or contact your local Area Business Manager.
Buying from IKO you can be assured that the products meet all British Standards, Will be right for the job and will last. As a local manufacturer we don’t have far to come to deliver your roofing system.
Full Range of Products from One Manufacturer
Expert Product Support
Commitment to Sustainability
UK Manufacturing
National Supply Network
Ballasted roofs are inverted or warm flat roof systems where the waterproofing membrane is secured against wind uplift and protected from other exposure and mechanical damage by a layer of gravel or paving – known as ballast.
Brown roof systems, more commonly referred to as biodiverse roofs, have self-vegetated substrates where windblown and wildlife migrated seeds create the roof finish.
Cold roof systems place the insulation layer within the roof structure. A ventilated void is created between the insulation and the roof deck. A waterproof membrane is then installed directly to the structural decking.
Green roofs are also known as eco-roofs and are designed to create more outdoor space.
Inverted roof systems are insulated roof structures with the waterproofing membrane placed under the insulation. This ‘upside-down’ sequence means the structural roof deck is waterproofed first, then insulated and finally finished with ballast such as gravel or paving slabs.
Podium roofs are types of inverted roofs used to create communal outdoor spaces in the form of roof platforms, predominantly serving as trafficked amenity spaces. These can be utilised as plazas and car parks or include landscaped recreational areas similar to green roofs.
Warm roof systems for flat roofs are assemblies where the thermal insulation is installed on top of the roof structure. This keeps the structural decking, usually constructed from timber, steel or concrete, at the same temperature levels as the internal temperature of the building.
