CLEAN CEILINGS.
Ceiling's, if not properly attended to and kept clean, will naturally become dirty and black with smoke and gas fumes, but unless the roof is leaky, and rain has penetrated and stained the ceiling with the dust and dirt that gathers on the top of it, it can be made perfectly clean by being well washed and given a coat of dissolved curd soap and dissolved alum. If this does not give the required result the next best thing- is to cover the ceilings with white lining paper of stout quality, and distemper over the paper. No other method will prove so satisfactory. This will save the ceiling somewhat, but if the plaster has perished, the old ceiling should be removed and a new one constructed. But, first of all, make the roof rainproof.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 19 November 1932, Page 3
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136CLEAN CEILINGS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 19 November 1932, Page 3
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