Talk:Tar paper
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Re the suggestion that 'Roofing Felt' gets merged with 'Tar paper': Is tar paper the primary term? I know you'd get blank looks here in the UK if you asked for that instead of roof felt. Also, I notice in a googlefight, there's 1.3m entries for 'roof felt', versus 388k for 'tar paper' (UK only). On google as a whole, those figures are 18m vs 13m; and an awful lot of those pages are worded like so: 'roofing felt (tar paper)' or 'felt paper (tar paper)' (ie the 'felt' usage is primary). I also had a look at US online suppliers like ebuild.com - no listing for tar paper, but plenty of roofing felt. In short, I think the merge should go the other way! Bazzargh 12:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Roofing Felt
My understanding is that Tar paper is impregnated with bitumen whereas Roofing Felt is usually a Polyester or Glass Fibre Fleece base that is laminated with a bituminous layer. This bituminous layer can then modified with polymers such as APP or SBS to produce High Performance roofing Felts.
