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bunker fill roof

bunker fill roof

In adobe construction of the American Southwest, a flat roof supported by roof beams of heavy logs stripped of their bark; wood sheathing is laid on the roof beams, which is then covered with building paper, earth fill, then a second layer of building paper, asphalt, and gravel.
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