KALAMAZOO VITRIFIED GLAZED BUILDING TILE
The above photographs, and those on the opposite side of the page illustrate the various “shapes” or main wall and closure tile for use in four and eight inch walls, and their multiples. These same sizes and shapes are also available in smooth glazed tile for all buildings and basements where a smooth finish is preferred to a mat face. Also, in our GYM-TEX, or wire-cut blocks, glazed or unglazed.
The houses of this page are examples of the striking attractiveness of Kalamazoo vitrified glazed tile, though the richness and warmth of the colors in their range between deep browns and light buffs cannot be fully appreciated until the blocks themselves are seen.
All the houses shown are of standard blocks, giving an eight inch wall. The garage at the rear, above, is of four- inch tile, identical in all other respects with the eight-inch blocks of the house. Plaster was applied in all instances to the tile direct, saving studding and lath.
This pleasing story and a half home is built of Kalamazoo tile from grade line to gable, mat-faced blocks being used in the first story and the stucco applied to our heavy-duty three-cell fire clay backup blocks. Its owner claims a great fuel saving over his experience in houses of similar size but other construction, together with far greater coolness in summer. And the first cost was no greater !
The house to the right is an example of what can be done with Kalamazoo vitrified glazed tile in a small house of the bungalow type.
While the first cost was no greater (most builders find it to be less) than good frame construction, the subsequent savings in lower
insurance, fuel, paint and upkeep prove Kalamazoo tile construction the most economical of all modern building material.
For further KALAMAZOO TANK & SILO CO. Kalamazoo, Michigan
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