Roof and side-wall painting, with full instructions by Langhorne Maurice

Author:Langhorne, Maurice. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: House painting. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Washington, D.C., T. McGill & co., printers
Published: 1879-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

references and certificates, the most cheek, the most talk, and the most cringln<^ politeness.

A traveling roof painter had the impudence to tell me to my face that I didn't know how to make monej' at roof painting. ""Why," says he, "mj^ paint costs about thirty cents a gallon, while yours costs nearly a dollar. A gallon of mine will paint six hundred square feet, for wliich I get better prices than you do. It is such a glossy, shinj'- black, that if I can get a man np on his roof to look at it in a week after the work is done, he is so well pleased that he wil4 pay my bill or discount his note at once."

How did the work look in two months? I inquired. "Oh," said he, "we make it a rule never to stay in one place more than six weeks, close up our business, get all the money we can, trade our notes for merchandise, and slide on to some other locality."

Leaks result from holes rusted in the tin or other metal, from abrasion such as the falling of stones and bricks upon the roof, and principally from the want of care of the tinner in putting tlie roof on. These latter are badly-formed joints and seams, and are the hardest leaks to find, and the hardest to stop when found.

Here let me say, that it is better to have a poor quality of tin put on well, than to have the best put on carelessly. There is no reason why a roof made of the best tin, painted on both sides, laid on felt, with joints an inch high and with two turns properly pressed together, should not last a hundred years without leaking,—barring the leaks from accidental abrasion.

How to Find the Leaks.

Take a tape-line and go to the room where the leak shows. (See diagram 1.) ISTote if the room is a front or

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