{"id":1735,"date":"2018-11-06T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decraafrica.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:56:58","slug":"decra-best-for-noise-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/blog\/decra-best-for-noise-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Decra\u00ae \u2013 Best for Noise Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/\">Decra<\/a>\u00ae<\/strong> stone coated roofing tiles do more than just look good. Even though they are durable for generations, there\u2019s one question that\u2019s always asked: \u201care they noisy when it rains?\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The answer may surprise you. Although Decra\u00ae tiles are made of <strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/decra-tile\">alu-zinc steel<\/a><\/strong>, they are much quieter than other types of metal roof such as long run. Our high-quality stone chip coating is responsible for this for two reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Firstly, the non-metallic stone coating doesn\u2019t refract the rain like a metal surface does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Secondly, the irregular shapes of our stone chips disperse raindrops, diluting their noise effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1746&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538403646317{margin-right: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>The graph to the left demonstrates that a Decra\u00ae roof <em>(represented by \u201cDecrabond Roof Tiles\u201d)<\/em> is almost 10 decibels quieter than a long run roof and around 5 decibels quieter than corrugated galvanised steel sheets.<\/p>\n<p>So even if you\u2019re considering a mono-pitched roof or a hidden roof, its well worth considering these figures.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are all the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/benefits\/\">benefits of Decra<\/a>\u00ae to also consider!<\/p>\n<p>While concrete tiles are a little quieter still, there\u2019s the breakage issue to consider with these, along with the usual problems with organic growth.<\/p>\n<p>To view our range of profiles and colours, please visit us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/\">www.decraafrica.com<\/a> or for more information please contact us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/contact\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Decra\u00ae stone coated roofing tiles do more than just look good. Even though they are durable for generations, there\u2019s one question that\u2019s always asked: \u201care they noisy when it rains?\u201d. The answer may surprise you. Although Decra\u00ae tiles are made of alu-zinc steel, they are much quieter than other types of metal roof such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decraafrica.com\/en-gm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}