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James E. BrumbaughNRD reference
Complete Roofing Handbook: Installation, Maintenance, Repair — James E. Brumbaugh (Macmillan Publishing Company, New York) — Internet Archive scan of the Boston Public Library copy, 1986.
Source: James E. Brumbaugh (Macmillan Publishing Company, New York) — Internet Archive scan of the Boston Public Library copy · · 1986
An Audel trade handbook from 1986 running 546 pages: roof types and construction, deck preparation, roof and attic insulation and ventilation, skylights and roof openings, dormer construction, and a long chapter on flashing details, followed by application chapters for strip shingles, specialty shingles, roll roofing, built-up roofing, wood shingles and shakes, slate, tile, and finally gutters and downspouts. Each material chapter carries its own repair, maintenance and reroofing sections.
Why a contractor cares. The hand-work chapters — slate, tile, wood shakes, dormer framing, chimney and vertical-wall flashing — remain among the clearest explanations of details that newer manuals abbreviate. Everything code-, standard- or fastener-schedule-related in it is forty years stale.
Why a public adjuster cares. Its value is historical. On an older building it describes the assembly you are likely to find and how it was originally meant to go together, which matters when arguing what a like-kind repair involves. It is not authority for anything current.
A summary written by the National Roofing Directory, not an extract. The work itself is James E. Brumbaugh (Macmillan Publishing Company, New York) — Internet Archive scan of the Boston Public Library copy's and is not reproduced here.
Provenance · Obtained from publicly circulated copies; no ownership claimed; removal honored on request
Source restriction · *** ⚠️ IN-COPYRIGHT TRADE BOOK — DO NOT PUBLISH. *** Copyright page verbatim: "© 1986 by James E. Brumbaugh / All rights reserved." Scan provenance printed in the front matter: "BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY / Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) / https://archive.org/details/completeroofinghOObrum". A library scan being reachable on the Internet Archive is not a licence to republish it from our own Supabase bucket. Second, independent reason to keep it out: it is forty years old. Every code citation, material standard, fastener sch
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