Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns; a comprehensive treatise by Teschmacher John Henry 1881-

Author:Teschmacher, John Henry, 1881-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sheet-metal work
Publisher: New York : David Williams company
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

lis that would eventually destroy the tin or

:en used as a means to fasten stay rods, etc., for signs, smoke stacks, and the like, f and then covered as explained, and then the : in a bed of white lead.

;re is a chimney at the eaves; and to provide

t quite high—sufficiently so, to have its top

lis case the cliimney is braced by passing a

lidway, and guyed to the roof with stiff rods.

The rods arc higher at the roof end than at the chimney and are simply flashed

with sheet metal for, say a distance of six inches, inasmuch as any water on the

rod would flow away from the roof.

SHEET LEAD FOR ROOF FLASHINGS

A knowledge of how to properly handle sheet lead is of considerable value to any roofer who has anything to do with the work on many of the artistic suburban and country homes now being built. Flashings are necessary, but when unduly prominent are objectionable features in the architecture of a building, and the nature of lead is such that it can be satisfactorily used where harder metals can not with any degree of neatness, as on a round tower, for instance.

Stra^ling, prominent flashings and aprons which attract the eye to various chimneys, instead of to the more important parts of the house, are not likely to

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