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Default making new copper look aged green

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On 26/01/2010 22:50, S Viemeister wrote:
On 1/26/2010 4:33 PM, Appin wrote:
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How do you get new copper to look naturaly aged green and stable,

Horse urine was the traditional material used in Eastern Canada where
there were and are a lot of copper roofs in the Montréal - Ottawa area.


An architect I used to know, claimed that the roofers were encouraged to
pee on the copper roof...


Easier than getting the horses to do so.

I dunno

once you got them on the roof, of course ...

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geoff