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Show Spring Roof Check Urged Regular inspection of the rowl should be made to detect laks before be-fore they become serious enough to damage the. building or its contents, con-tents, and home owners are advised ad-vised to have a contractor or roofing applicator make this inspection in-spection in the Spring. Roofs take a severe beating from Winter's wind, ice, snow and sleet. Another reason for a thoi-ough thoi-ough check-up on the roof this Spring is that' wind storms of unusual un-usual intensity swept many sections sec-tions of the country in 1950. While the damage to some roofs was immediately obvious, other roofs suffered hidden damage which now may be showing up. Patching a roof seldom is recommended. rec-ommended. Most roofing wears uniformly and the first leak in an old roof usually means that others will develop soon. Getting up on an old roof to patch it may cause other leaks. If a leak is ignored, water will run along rafters, seep into walls and ceilings, crackinsj plaster and staining wallpaper. In re-roofing, it is economical to select a material that can be laid over the old roof, such as fire-resistant fire-resistant asphalt shingles. Available Avail-able in many colors, textures and patterns, asphalt shingles also fit into the color scheme to give the home beauty. Properly applied, an asphalt roof is wind-resistant. If the hotts is in an exposed location, where high winds can be expected, cementing ce-menting down the tabs of asphalt strip shingles will provide good protection. This is easily done by placing a daub of quick-setting cement about the size of a fifty-cent fifty-cent piece under each tab. Individual Indi-vidual clip-down and inter-locking shingles also give satisfactory ser vice in high wind areas. |