Source:Zolium
"If it's artistic, isn't a tight roof best?: Zolium patented tile roofing." Pittsburgh Post, June 13, 1909, p. 6. Newspapers.com 86423139.
IMAGINE a roof of diamond tiles, slightly variegated in tone; a red roof, deep and positive in color, but harmonious—an Indian red—warm, rich and with the quality of permanently pleasing. This is Zolium—the instant you see it you concede its beauty.
But, after all, it's the tightness of a roof that's important. Zolium is tight because we have entirely gotten away from the old idea of merely shedding the rain water. Shedding does very well until a green shingle warps, exposing one of the cracks of which there are thousands on an old style roof. Then you have a leak—and pay for new ceilings or wall paper—new furniture—new draperies.
Zolium does away with treacherous cracks. Each Zolium tile is an integral part of a pliable, impenetrable sheet of bonded fibre, extending practically from gable to gable. These tiles are lapped three deep. The rain is not only shed, but it is forever excluded.
Zolium will not catch fire from sparks, is very durable, needs no painting, and is economical. It can be laid over old shingles. There is no other roof like it.
Zolium is made by J. A. & W. BIRD & CO., Boston, and sold by
J. M. Daffron,
Conestoga Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
