As any history buff knows, “the thin red line” refers to military action by the British in the Crimea and, later, the US troops in Guadalcanal and Europe. Today, those red thin lines on rolls of mesh have created an outcry.

Originally, the roll’s red lines were used to help guide the overlapping of the mesh during a roofing application, such as with cool roofing. Plus, if the red lines were covered with enough acrylic, so that the red lines disappeared, crew workers knew they had brushed down sufficient acrylic.

Some roofers complained that the red lines were still visible after they were done; i.e., they were applying less than the usual acrylic thickness. In a reaction to their complaints, roof distributors began stocking rolls WITHOUT the lines.

Outraged contractors, like me, complained about the missing thin red lines. Lately, the roofing distributors stock both styles and roll their eyes about the hullabaloo.

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