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STRUCTURAL SUGGESTIONS 221<br />

been the universal practice, although for many years the<br />

United States Government has not permited floated plaster in<br />

government-inspected meat rooms because of its porosity and<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sequent tendency to take up water and become foul.<br />

Materials not possessing capillarity, for the finish coat<br />

over cold storage room <str<strong>on</strong>g>insulati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>, are coming into much favor.<br />

Factory ir<strong>on</strong>ed-<strong>on</strong> mastic finish coated <strong>cork</strong>boards for the sec-<br />

FIG. 78.—CORKBOARD INSULATED ICE STORAGE HOUSE WITH PORT-<br />

LAND CEMENT PLASTER FINISH.<br />

<strong>on</strong>d course, with all joints effectively sealed at point of erec-<br />

ti<strong>on</strong> with the point of a hot tool, are much better where mois-<br />

ture is encountered in cold storage rooms than is any kind of<br />

plaster; while a finish having an emulsified asphalt base, which<br />

may be troweled <strong>on</strong> at the job, in two coats, in much the same<br />

way as plaster, is gaining in use, although it has probably not<br />

yet been tried over a sufficient period of time, and its formula<br />

has not yet been sufficiently standardized, to permit of an<br />

unqualified general approval.<br />

If good troweled plaster <strong>on</strong> walls is finished off first with a

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