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Show SOME HINTS FOR BUILDERS Great Care Should Be Taken In Selection Selec-tion of the Most Substantial Roofing Material. If you were without preparation or plan, rudely placed in a wilderness, your first thought would be of food supply and your next of shelter, for these are the two most vital necessities necessi-ties of mankind. It is therefore natural that the best thought, and study are put upon these two essentials. essen-tials. More forward steps have been taken In the building industry in the past fifteen years, as regards comfort, service and architectural beauty than in the fifty years previous. Only in recent years has the handling hand-ling of cement in building work been understood properly, and progress is still constantly being made with it. Modern hotels and office buildings are being equipped with sheet metal mouldings and steel veenered doors. Nearly every important change in building construction is away from the fire hazard of wood. One of the most significant developments develop-ments of recent years is the crushed slate surfaced asphalt shingle which is, on new construction and old, rapidly rapid-ly supplanting the wooden article. There are many reasons for this. The slate surfaced shingles add beauty to any building in fact, there is really no comparison from an architectural standpoint. Crushed Blate of pleasing tints of red or green, Is employed as a surfacing. The shingles are uniformly uniform-ly eight Inches wide and are exposed four inches to the weather. No painting paint-ing Is necessary as the red or green crushed slate Is natural and therefore cannot fade. The purchaser, however, should guard himself against buying a slate surfaced shingle that Is not guaranteed guaran-teed by a reliable and responsible manufacturer. There are so many kinds of roofing and shingles on the market today each claiming to be the best that It becomes necessary for the buyer to get some satisfactory assurance assur-ance that the roofing or shingles axe represented honestly. |