“Ceiling insulation is… preferable to roof-top insulation.”
Ken Kern American writer
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
“Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down — starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.”
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
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