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Rectangular Coverings

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Introduction
Slate is a natural building material known for its durability and aesthetic appeal, making it a popular choice for roofs and façades. Historically a status symbol, it is now more accessible due to advancements in exploitation and covering techniques.
Rectangular Coverings
These coverings offer versatile design options for roofs and façades, aligning with modern architectural trends. They are both economically and ecologically sensible, emphasizing sustainable resource use.
Rectangular Double Covering
This roofing style is adaptable to various roof geometries and is known for its durability and cost-effectiveness, suitable for both new constructions and renovations.
Façade Cladding Techniques
  • Horizontal Cladding: Provides a calm appearance with easy installation.
  • Drawn Cladding: Creates dynamic light and shadow effects, ideal for large surfaces.
  • Underlaid Rectangular Cladding: Features striking shadow gaps and stainless steel elements for a sophisticated look.
  • Dynamic Cladding: Mimics block masonry with irregular patterns, enhancing slate's natural strength.
  • Variable Rectangular Cladding: Allows for individual design with minimal waste, offering a geometric look.
  • Linear Rectangular Cladding: Emphasizes strict geometry with variable joint widths and material combinations.
  • Symmetrical Cladding: Offers a modern aesthetic with easy installation, available with visible or invisible fixtures.
Coloured Slate (ColorSIN®)
ColorSIN® slate provides additional design possibilities with shades like fresh green and royal red, enhancing both modern and classical architecture.
Sustainability and Quality
Slate is an eco-friendly material with a lifespan often exceeding 100 years. The Rathscheck Quality System ensures high standards through rigorous testing and quality control, supported by independent institutions.
Conclusion
Slate is a cost-effective, durable, and modern building material that meets contemporary architectural needs while offering timeless appeal.
Natural Material
Slate is a purely natural material, created millions of years ago, processed without additives, optimal for building physiology, and poses no disposal issues.
Durability
Slate is noted for its exceptional durability, often lasting over 100 years, with strict standards and self-developed testing methods ensuring consistent quality.
Versatility
Slate harmonizes with various architectural styles, from classic to modern, and is increasingly in demand for its aesthetic appeal.
Consultation and Service
Rathscheck offers expert consultation services, assisting with planning and project realization, providing extensive online resources and films to explore the beauty and application of slate.
Contact Information
Rathscheck Schiefer und Dach-Systeme is located in Mayen-Katzenberg, Germany, offering free personal consultations and support for architectural projects involving slate.
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Rectangular Coverings. MODERN VARIETY FOR ROOF AND FACADE.

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Rectangular Coverings. Naturalness in its clearest form. Slate is a pure natural building material for roofs and façades for generations appreciated for its robust­ ­ ness and its high aesthetics. For a long time slate was reserved for the sophisticated architecture. Status symbol for prosperity and building culture. By progressive exploitation and new economical types of covering slate has become reasonable and co-ordinates perfectly with modern, straight­lined architecture. Today the prehistoric rock shows a surprisingly young face. Especially the rectangular coverings offer with many variations...

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Economically and ecologically sensible Rectangular Coverings for roof and façade. The sustainable handling of natural resources is more important than ever. Slate is a completely natural material with overwhelming building-physical characteristics. Can one build the future? ”Thinking ahead, planning purposefully, creating clarity. We follow this principle privately in our profession as architects. Successful architecture is for us a symbiosis of creativity, aesthetics and effectiveness. Is it not better to participate in designing the spirit of the times than just following it?” Rectangular Coverings...

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Modern economical covering Rectangular Double Covering on the roof. Natural accent for modern architecture. Rock format Roof pitch Regular roof pitch Vertikal cover Lateral cover The following third layer has to cover the first one in accordance with the table. For this purpose the roof pitch is decisive. The rectangular double covering is able to adjust to every roof geometry. Filigree details of the roof such as valleys are also not a problem. The rectangular double covering is one of the most popular types of slate roofing of modern roofs. By its straight-lined optics it harmonises with a...

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More than only façade Rectangular Double Covering for the façade. Robust and pleasantly inexpensive. Whether at detached family houses or at large building projects – the rectangular double covering is a preferred type of slate covering at the façade. At the façade the rectangular double covering also emphasises up-to-date architecture. Its refined covering image harmonises with every architectural style. The silky gloss of the slate also clearly enhances plain façades and offers protection for generations. A hung façade lastingly prevents at new building and restoration the penetration of humidity...

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Refined overall image, easy laying The Horizontal Cladding. Clear lines. Pleasant modesty. At the horizontal cladding the stones are covered with horizontal displacement. A calm, restrained cladding image is created. By the uncomplicated laying technique and the high utilisation of the material the horizontal cladding is among the particularly reasonable types of slate claddings and is therefore popular with private owners of buildings as well as with planners of large building objects. Horizontal Cladding Horizontal Cladding

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Ideal for new building and renovation The Drawn Cladding as playground for light and shadow. The drawn cladding can be realised with any rectangular format and can be adjusted to the geometry of the building minimising the clippings. The drawn cladding generates lively geometric structures at the façade. That makes it particularly interesting for large façade surfaces. The classic among the rectangular covers. A lively light and shadow play is created by the drawn-apart overlap of the coping stones. This laying technique uses the rectangular format of the slate extremely rationally. Drawn Cladding...

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The gleam of something special The Underlaid Rectangular Cladding. Effective and filled with excitement. The underlaid rectangular cladding masterfully draws attention to the sophisticated architecture and convinces by high economic efficiency. Striking shadow gaps and the stainless steel cramps skilfully used as design element generate an extraordinarily cladding image at the façade. During the day the shadow gaps and the natural structure of the slate brighten up the façade. Lit up during the night the stainless steel cramps generate an interesting sparkle. Underlaid Rectangular Cladding Underlaid...

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The natural strength of the slate The Dynamic Cladding. Sturdy and unique cladding image. Metal strips Minimum width 100 mm The dynamic cladding is carried out as a single coverage. The 3 – 5 mm wide vertical joints are backed up with metal strips. Feasible stone formats W x H (cm) 60 x 30 The dynamic cladding is installed with rows of layers of different heights. The vertical joints are also not regularly repeated so that no grid is created in the cladding image. The layout of the rows of layers and vertical joints can be individually planned to the greatest possible extent. The dynamic cladding...

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Natural accents in geometric look The Variable Rectangular Cladding. Surprisingly versatile. Convincingly different. Vertical and horizontal overlap amount by standard to 5 cm, as a result of trimming the corners. The strictly geometric cladding image follows the lines of modern archichtecture. The silky gloss of slate generates exciting contrasts. The variable rectangular cladding offers a large scope for an individual design of the façade. By the combination of different rectangular formats this type of cladding permits an uneven cross joint grid with an individual touch. The waste material...

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Strictest Geometry The Linear Rectangular Cladding. Simply different. Three examples for the linear rectangular cladding: The maximum vertical overlap amounts to 5 cm. The lateral overlap of the face stones onto the stones or strips placed underneath also amounts to 5 cm. The visible layer shall be carried out with a vertical joint at least 3 to 6 mm wide. The following rectangular formats are available for the linear rectangular cladding: Green ColorSIN® backed with blue-grey InterSIN®. The linear rectangular cladding works Blue-grey InterSIN® backed with stainless steel strips. with vertical...

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