. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . ^UT-S-COE-K, bOf^CX)- BOA,»A NWUNG £TB,1P.°* FLOOa FIG. 114—DETAIL OF FLOOR—FOUR INCHES OF CORK BOARDWITH WOOD WEARING FLOOR. out cutting the cork. The top of the insulation should bemo
. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . ^UT-S-COE-K, bOf^CX)- BOA,»A NWUNG £TB,1P.°* FLOOa FIG. 114—DETAIL OF FLOOR—FOUR INCHES OF CORK BOARDWITH WOOD WEARING FLOOR. out cutting the cork. The top of the insulation should bemopped with asphalt or covered with waterproof paperbefore the finished floor is laid. Roof Insulation The method of insulating the roof illustrated by Figure. -COMPOSITION TJ-OOFINQFIG. 115—DETAIL OF ROOF INSULATION. 115 is now generally used in buildings where the top flooris used as cold storage. It eliminates the air space be- INSULATION 189 tween the roof and the ceilmg of the top floor and reducesthe height of the outside walls. The construction of the roof must be similar to thatof the floors below and the wall insulation is extended upto meet the insulation on the roof. The thickness of cork should not be less than sixinches, and over freezer rooms eight inches of cork is fre-quently used. The cork is laid on the roof slab in hot asphalt withthe joints broken between the two layers and all voidsfilled solid with asphalt and cork dust. The top surface is mopped as soon as the work is fin-ished, in order to protect the cork from rain water untilthe finished roof is applied. Insulation on Roofs to Prevent Condensation of Moistureon Ceilings. Concrete roofs will sweat in cold weather due to con-densation of moisture on the ceiling. Whe
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