How best to renovate a wooden roof?

How to renovate a wooden roof in order to achieve the desired visual effect? In this article we will provide you with all the advice and information you need for the renovation of a wooden roof, trying to answer the most common questions and concerns.

Glulam roof colours

Which colours to choose for your glulam roof? How to paint the wooden beams white? Bleach or not bleach the roof the wood? These are some of the most frequent questions of all people who are preparing to renovate their wooden roof.

To answer these questions we can simplify by simply saying that the type of colour of the wooden beams and the bleaching will generally depend on the aesthetic philosophy with which you intend to furnish your rooms.

In reality, when it comes to the colours of a wooden roof there is no better, worse or more congenial solution in itself: the choice will always have to be made according to the type of environment we want to create.

What is really important is that our aesthetic choice must be in perfect harmony with the overall spirit of the project. Simplifying the approach even further, here are some important tricks:

• White is the ideal colour for a particularly sober, elegant and bright environment, but at the same time refined and essential.
• The natural colour of wood is best suited to rustic, warm and enveloping environments.

Roof renovation with exposed beams

A roof with exposed beams represents a furnishing solution that involves the use of a natural material able to give great warmth to a flat and in particular to an attic (how to furnish an attic).

However, beamed wood is not an element to be used only in rooms characterised by a rustic style: a pickled or coloured white wooden roof, combined with design elements and metal furniture, will create a particularly refined and intriguing contemporary environment.

Treatment of a wooden roof with exposed beams

A wooden roof with exposed beams is a roof that needs to be checked regularly to avoid problems with the proliferation of humidity, which often results in the formation of unpleasant mould that is potentially dangerous for the health of the tenants.

We must never forget that wood is a living material, which can therefore be easily attacked by pests. For this reason, intervention with the help of a specific periodic treatment is the best way to keep your roof beams as healthy as possible.

How to paint the exterior wooden beams

As far as the coating of external wooden beams is concerned, if the beams are free and uncovered, in that case it is not necessary to use the classic primer. If, on the other hand, the wooden beams are completely covered, in this case it will be necessary to use the primer and then apply the varnish.

In case of presence of untreated wood, the beams must necessarily be treated, as well as the panels located in the middle.

As regards the cost of varnishing the wooden beams, in addition to the cost of primer and varnish, labour costs will have to be added.

Wooden roof: what colour to give the walls?

The presence of wooden beams inside one's own spaces often raises the question of the colour matching of walls and floor.

Here are some important tips and tricks: if your floor is in light grey porcelain stoneware, in this case a congenial combination could be represented by the natural wood coloured roof beams and the walls coloured with a colour as similar as possible (or that refers in some way) to the floor. In this way you will harmoniously combine very different materials such as wood and stoneware.

If your floor is made with the help of dark parquet, in this case it is better to proceed with the whitening of the beams (the cost of whitening the wooden beams is not excessive). The natural colour of the wood would make the room too heavy in these circumstances. The walls can instead be painted with the help of cold colours, but not too dark (light grey or alternatively sugar paper blue).

If the parquet of your floor is light in colour, you can also bleach the wooden beams and give free rein to paint the walls with the colour you prefer. You can also decide to leave the beams in their natural colour and dye the walls green (avoid overly acidic tones).

Finally, if the floor of your rooms is made with the aid of grit (this material is available in different colours), in this case you will have to identify the dominant colour and then take it up again on the walls of your room. Also in this case it is better to proceed with beam whitening.

Wooden roof with exposed beams: when should you opt for whitening?

Deciding to whiten the wooden beams of an exposed roof is an operation that will help to give your rooms a lighter and brighter tone. With a wooden roof with exposed beams whitened, the walls of your spaces will be less affected by the normal alterations and interferences made by the light that normally reflects on the natural colour of the wood.