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Show RUST CREATES BIG REPAIR BILL NEW YORK. May 20. The aggregate aggre-gate annual repair bill of home-owners In this country will this year amount to $640,041,769 for one Item alone the replacement of rusted sheet metal work. Including leaders and girt-i ters, valleys and flashings This Is tho outstanding fact brought out by a survey Just completed by the Copper and Brass Research association. It Is estimated thut there are ln use in this country at tho present time 6,176,000.000 feet of leaders and gut-l ters and that about one billion feet Is renewed annually. The cost of replacement of rusted iron and steel pipe In plumbing is placed at $86,500,000 annually, rnak- lng a totau annual rust bill of approximately ap-proximately $626,500,000 Of every dollar spent In residence construction, 36 1 cents Is spent for masonry, 29.1 cents for carpentry. 8.7 1 cents for heating 6 5 cents for palnt-i ing. 6 cents for electrical work, 6 cents for plumbing, 3 5 cents for shectl metal work, 2.9 r, nts for roofing and 12 cents for hardware. The survey shows that the four last' named itms. plumbing, sheet metal: work, roofing and hardware, are tho heaviest contributors to tho nation's, repair bill It ls estimated that between four and five billion dollars will bo spent j this year ln new construction, a large I part of lt residential. ' Of this amount, approximately ,8240,000.000 will be spent for plumbing. plumb-ing. $140,000,000 for roofing and j $48,000,000 for hardware. It" Is In iheao itenrs that tho largest annu al hhhIo for repairs and replacements takes place. In the bulletin of the Copper and Brass Research association it Is ehowni that. 34 mills more on the dollar will provide bruss pipe, for the plumbing 7-10 of a mill more on the dollar, copper ln tho shoot metal work. 2 S-io cents on the dollar, a copper roof.l and of a mill more on the dollar! brass or bronze hardware |