SHOULD I USE A HIDDEN ROOF OR A NORMAL ROOF || BUILDING IN GHANA || WHY ? || MONEY USAGE (2022) 

Hidden roof are more expensive than the "normal roof" in the short & long run. For instance iuf you build a 3 bedroom house, you must have 2 to 4 different areas (gatters) where water will stream down frm the roof. these gatters are made by a concentrated mix of motor, water proofing materials, more bricks to hide the water system, pipes, and metal works to make the aggregate more solid. these are all expenses that you'll never incur in normal roof. Also, by nature & by design, bricks are just sand and cement the do not last long when they're consistently exposed to water, hidden roofs will make this reality a nightmare after 3 to 5 years if you're lucky. The normal roof allows the metal sheets to protect the bricks hence 30years down the line there's little or no brick decay and fungus accumulation. Yiu can mix anti fungi agents while building and painting the house but they won't last!. Lastly, the water collected from the hidden roof pipes will surely flood your environment and the neighbour's, which is costly and unsettling. Congrats on the educational video but it's important for people to know that the disadvantages go further than just cosmetics and make ups of th house after a decade. MuchLove!

Very very Educative... well noted.. keep up the good works...👍

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This is the misconception that hidden roof is low cost…. I respectfully disagree. You may be saving on cost of wood, labor, and quantity of roofing sheets, however, you will also incur cost of building the rain gutters: iron rods, sand, stones, cement, wood, labor, tiles, and other waterproofing materials. Comparing both, the cost savings is insignificant if not the same. Speaking from experience. Hidden roofs makes the building beautiful, but again beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Thanks for the deep information. It helps.

Very educative,thank you.

Thank u Bro. I suggest roofing companies should do well to gets us some kind of paint we can use for our roofing sheets as it starts to fade

Great information

Thanks for the wonderful presentation

11 minutes of divine wisdom. Nice stuff

Very informative, thank you.

Thank you bro for the Information, watched from Uganda.

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My advise to would be house owners is to engage very experience building techs or engineers to handle their projects to avoid embarrazement.

Please roofs can also be painted. We can not also say hidden roofs are cheaper. Hidden may even be sometimes expensive than the hiproofs

Thanks so much

Thanks a lot. From Zambia

We do paint roof.

What if the slopes on normal roof one. Put gutters to catchment of water for storage can it be possible?

Can't someone hide on the hidden roof or pull or get rid of the sink or aluminum and get into the house asking for security purpose.

Please roofs can also be painted. We can not also say hidden roofs are cheaper. Hidden may even be expensive

Please which is the best waterproof materials can someone use on a parapet?

Can you not always replace a pitched roof?

How about a drainage in the hidden roof

Normal roof if you ever think to put solar panels.

I have done hidden roof and it’s quite expensive trust me

Can the hidden roofs be done at the coastal areas?

Must u do lentil wen going for secret roof

Pls can u help me do a hidden roof

I think almost non hidden roof is the same, same style, same colour and it's boring. Ghanaian like copy and paste. I don't understand why those roofs can't have a different layout.

with a Hidden roof, if you get the right materials and well installed, there will be no/low maintenance. Ghana has a poor installation mechanism when it comes to Hidden Roofs. with a Hidden roof, there are materials needed.. Roof Cap(parapet design) and Water proof material for the roof; not Bitumen.

How do you waterproof the hidden roof ?

Kindly do a video of Gable roofing as well