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https://eliyodersecrets.com On a barn roof outside Berlin, Ohio, a standing seam metal roof treated in 1962 with a mixture of hydrated lime, skim milk, and plain table salt measured cool to the touch in ninety four degree August heat sixty years after application. A fifty pound bag of type S hydrated lime costs between four and seven dollars at any farm supply store and covers twelve hundred square feet of roof in two coats. One gallon of plain skim milk costs three dollars and fifty cents and creates the casein polymer bond that keeps the coating locked to the substrate for seven to twelve years. A box of table salt costs one dollar. Two tablespoons of potassium aluminum sulfate — pickling alum from the spice aisle — added to the standard mixture increases solar reflectance from eighty eight percent to ninety three percent and extends coating durability from seven years to twelve.
And when you combine these four ingredients using the recipe on page eleven of Farmers Bulletin Number 1452, published by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1937, documented by USDA chemist Henry Albert Gardner from a 1934 field survey of Lancaster County farms, you eliminate the need to ever pay another thirty to fifty dollar monthly air conditioning surcharge from June through September — without permits, without contractors, and without removing a single shingle from the roof already on your house. The American residential roofing and cooling industries generate combined revenues exceeding one hundred billion dollars annually. The EPA confirms that reflective commercial roof coatings reduce peak cooling demand by eleven to twenty seven percent at a cost of two to four dollars per square foot. The lime wash formula in Farmers Bulletin 1452 delivers better reflectance numbers at under one cent per square foot. NASA confirmed the reflectance values of properly cured lime plaster in a 1959 study on passive cooling for unconditioned structures. Harold Beasley, agricultural extension agent for Sumter County, Alabama from 1931 to 1956, documented in archives now held at Auburn University that whitewashed farmhouses in August 1939 averaged eleven and a half degrees cooler indoors than identical unpainted houses three miles away — without a single watt of electricity. The Centers for Disease Control reported more than twenty three hundred heat-related deaths in the United States in the summer of 2023, most of them indoors, most in homes with dark roofs releasing stored solar heat into bedrooms between two and four in the morning. Farmers Bulletin Number 1452 was reprinted continuously from 1937 until 1969, then quietly removed from active distribution. By 1991 every reference to it had been scrubbed from standard masonry and roofing textbooks used in American trade schools. In 1946, the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association began lobbying state building inspectors to require only petroleum-based approved coatings, making the self-mixed lime wash economically irrelevant for new construction without banning it outright. The alum modification documented by Gardner on page eleven — the addition of two tablespoons of potassium aluminum sulfate that raises reflectance to ninety three percent and durability to twelve years — was deleted from every reprint of the bulletin after 1953. It survives in the original first edition at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, and in the working practice of Amish and Old Order Mennonite builders in Holmes County, Ohio and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the recipe has been passed down by demonstration since a Mennonite builder named Christian Yoder recorded it in a personal ledger in 1819, now archived at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. This video shows you the complete Amish lime wash roof cooling system any homeowner can apply to the house already standing on the property — the overnight slake of three pounds of hydrated lime per gallon of water, the morning addition of one cup of skim milk and one quarter cup of salt, the two tablespoons of pickling alum that take reflectance to ninety three percent, the thin first coat before nine in the morning and the thin second coat in the late afternoon, the twenty two degree average attic temperature drop within twenty four hours across six tested homes in three states, and the page eleven modification that Eli Miller's family in Berlin, Ohio has applied to the same farmhouse roof every seven years since 1889 — starting this Saturday, on the roof you already own, for under eleven dollars in materials total. #AmishSecrets #RoofCooling #ForgottenKnowledge #ElectricBill #SelfSufficiency #CoolRoof #DIYHome #HomesteadingTips #SaveMoney #OffGridLiving #SuppressedKnowledge #PennsylvaniaDutch #FrugalLiving #FarmersBulletin1452 #LimeWash #HenryAlbertGardner #ZeroCost
