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Luna Roof Terracing Chemical Compound


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1 Chemico Cement Waterproofing Industries (P) Ltd, Calcutta, India
     

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Roof Terracing has been practised in our country for several hundred years. The unsophisticated sloped roof construction covered with tiles or other sheeting, originally introduced in this country on the pattern of foreign practice, proved to be unsuitable in our tropical climate with high incidence of rainfall and extremes of temperature. Though cheap in construction and still employed in villages for poorer folks, due to pressure on land in urban areas and development of modern construction practices, this type of sloped roof gradually gave way to flat roof construction which offered a large measure of protection from the climate. But the flat roof as such was not impervious to water and unless the run off from a flat roof could be made effective, water would percolate into the flat roof and defeat its purpose.
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S. Bandopadhyaya
Chemico Cement Waterproofing Industries (P) Ltd, Calcutta, India

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Roof Terracing has been practised in our country for several hundred years. The unsophisticated sloped roof construction covered with tiles or other sheeting, originally introduced in this country on the pattern of foreign practice, proved to be unsuitable in our tropical climate with high incidence of rainfall and extremes of temperature. Though cheap in construction and still employed in villages for poorer folks, due to pressure on land in urban areas and development of modern construction practices, this type of sloped roof gradually gave way to flat roof construction which offered a large measure of protection from the climate. But the flat roof as such was not impervious to water and unless the run off from a flat roof could be made effective, water would percolate into the flat roof and defeat its purpose.