[ Useful Hint [for Roofing] ]
Date: Published during the year 1799. | 1799/01/01 to 1799/12/31
Source:
Nova Scotia Calender, or an Almanack [...] by Metonicus (print)
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives
| Reference: AK.AY.N85M / No Microfilm Available
Instructions for weather-proofing a wooden roof after a method used in Sweden.
USEFUL HINT.
Communicated by the Royal Society of Sweden, to that of London.
--------------- After roofing a house with wood, boil tar in a kettle, and
mix finely pulversed charcoal with it, till it is of the thickness of mortar;
spread this with a trowel about a fourth of an inch thick, over the roof; it
will soon grow hard and defy all the vicissitudes of weather. Roofs thus
covered, have stood in Sweden above a century, and still want no repair.
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