Construction Seminar Schedule for 2013:
Here is our new schedule for 2013!
Feb 23rd
April 6th
June 1st
August 3rd
Sept 28th
The one day construction seminars are held at our model home center on I70 on the southwest outer road of Exit 144 in Central Missouri. Call or email to register as class size is limited!
Home Show Schedule for 2013:
Feb 15 - 17 - Home Show of Central MO: Jefferson City (this is not exclusively a log home show)
March 1 & 2 - Branson, MO: The Log and Timber Home Show at the Branson Convention Center
March 22 - 24 - Indianapolis, IN: The Log and Timber Home Show at the IN State Fairgrounds.
March 22 - 24 - Kansas City MO: Homebuilders Show at Bartle Hall
Answer to the Trivia Question: Man has utilized various natural resources, technological methods & ways of applications throughout history to create the environmentally safe, effective roofing of today. From wood, mud and straw, to tiling, shingles and beyond, the one thing most of us take for granted has been a necessity a properly function roof for survival since the dawn of time. Although most of the growth within the roofing industry has been within the last 200 years, the complete history of roofing starts much earlier than that. The Greeks and Romans were the first to experiment with differing roofing styles. The Romans introduced slating and tiling to Great Britain as early as 100 BC. Thatch roofs were introduced and implemented around the year 735 AD and it wouldn’t be for another 300 years until wooden shingles were first implemented as well.
The first composite roofing was used in New England in the 1840s. These roofs were usually made of a felted or woven fabric that was covered with a tar-like substance like pine tar and sand. Later improvements included saturating the fabric with asphalt and a mixture of materials like talc, sand, or powdered gravel or limestone. The first true composition roofing was credited to the S.M and C.M Warren Company.
The idea of shaping asphalt roofing into individual shingles is credited to Henry M. Reynolds of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1903. A roofing contractor and manufacturer, he started cutting stone-surfaced roofing into 8 by 16 inch shingles by hand, with a knife. Adding crushed granules of slate—a 1914 idea from F.C Overby of the Flintkote Company—helped weight such shingles down to the roof. From here a new industry seems to have sprung.
The greatest innovation in the asphalt shingle industry was the introduction of the multitab strip shingle. Bird and Son introduced the Neposet twin, which was a 12 ½ by 20 inch shingle with a slot tab that divided the piece to look like two shingles. Larger pieces made the price of installation decrease while the tab pieces imitated wood shingles.
The Ruberoid Company was the first manufacturer to offer asphalt shingles with a rolled wood-grain texture. At the end of the 1950s, 12-by-36 inch, multitab, blue shingles were the most popular roofing material.
In the 1970s, a glass fiber-reinforced felt was introduced. This material had increased tensile strength and was thinner and more light-weight. Several layers of these felts were laminated together to give a dramatic shading effect.
Quote of the Month: "The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin