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Subject:
What is the roof construction of a brownstone or tenement?
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Met History <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - "lapsit exillas"
Date:
Sat, 13 May 2000 21:43:26 EDT
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Before plywood, how were the flat roofs of 19th century houses and tenements
constructed?  Were they planked, and then coated with bituminous?

This has occurred to me while watching 3-Polish-Guys, Inc., apply rolled
roofing to a pair of 1881 tenements out my window.  I realized that they were
just covering up the existing, without removing it - but then I realized I
didn't know what was "existing".

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