There is no detail of house building more important than the roof. Upon
it depends to a great degree the durability and preservation of the
whole structure. The number of good houses with mottled ceilings and
cracked plastering, to be seen all over the country, are reminders of the
necessity of securing the best material and faultless construction for
this important part of your dwelling.
The advantages we claim for our Tin Shingle, over the ordinary mode of
applying sheet metal for roofing purposes, consists in its =Superior
Strength, Freedom from Wrinkles and Cracking=, (which cannot at all
times be prevented where sheet metal is put on in continuous sheets);
and in being the =Most Ornamental and Durable= of all sheet metal roof
coverings. Now, in answer to this last assertion you may say, How can
this be? Is not the same quality of tin as durable when applied in one
form as another? We answer, By no means. The writer—and we presume the
reader—has seen tin roofs worked, and walked over in the necessary
finishing up, to such an extent as to seriously damage the roof. The Tin
Roofers’ mallets, seamers, tongs, and sliding over the roof, do more real
damage to the surface of tin plate than several years’ wear. We entirely
overcome this difficulty, as no part of the exposed surface of our Tin
Shingles are struck with a mallet or hammer in applying them. Again,
where metal plates are put together in continuous sheets, moisture,
which condenses underneath for want of ventilation, settles in the
cross-seams and causes decay, and the ordinary metal roof when removed
invariably shows this to be the case, while the other part of the plate
shows no perceptible wear. Our form of metal roofing has no cross-seams,
and has sufficient ventilation to prevent the condensation of moisture
underneath, making it by many years the most durable form of metal
roofing ever offered to the American people.
Our object is to furnish the building public with a better form of
roofing material, attractive in appearance, without the objections of the
heavy slate, the clumsy shingle, or the plain ribbed metal roof; and at a
price that claims the attention of Architects and Builders of the whole
country.
THE NATIONAL SHEET METAL ROOFING CO.,
510 TO 520 EAST TWENTIETH ST.,
New York City.