Estimated Cost, with Bath and Furnace, $2,000 to $2,300.
Use Broad-Rib Steel Plate with attic vents (see page 73) for roof, and 10
× 14 No. 2 Metal Shingles for gables.]
[Illustration: _First Floor._ _Second Floor._
_Design_ E.—_Elevations, page 38._]
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ROOF PAINT.—We use the best Brown Mineral Oxide of Iron, roasted and
double-ground, mixed with boiled linseed oil, grinding them together, and
adding only enough turpentine to dry in the air in seventy-two hours.
We first dip the shingles, and after they have stood a short time, and
before the paint has set, they are carefully gone over with a brush,
insuring an even, perfect coat, not obtainable in any ordinary way of
painting.
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All tin roofers, who have experience, know the importance of putting on
a second coat. In spite of the best care in laying, more or less paint
is scratched off, and without a second coat the roof is not finished.
Architects and builders always require it, and if a heavy single coat
of paint is given the roof every five or six years, there will be no
perceptible wear on the tin, insuring many years’ service.