HEATING THE HOME
Progressive heating engineers realise that the roof is just as much a part of the heating system as boilers, pipes, and radiators. For the best heating and ventilating plant cannot maintain comfortable temperatures throughout the average building.if the roof leaks heat. Building owners never blame a beatleaking roof for chilly rooms and poor ventilation; these discomforts are always laid to the beating plant, though the roof may bo the cause. It is important, therefore, to specify insulated roofs—roofs that protect the heating and ventilating system winter and summer. . ' Ordinary roofing materials when used alone offer too little resistance to heat. Boiler heat gees right through them in winter; sun heat beats through in summer, A special insulation material is needed to make roofs tight against heat leakage.
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Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 2
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130HEATING THE HOME Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 2
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