Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. SITUATION AND ASPECT. Importance of situation—Defects not to be remedied— The top of a hill—The bottom of a hill—The best situation — Wrong kind of shelter — Too steep a slope — Surroundings — High hills and their draw- backs—Tre^s—Ponds— Lakes —Canals—Sluggish streams — A very bad neighbourhood indeed—A charitable nuisance — The railway nuisance — The night-cab nuisance—Sewer-flaps —Church bells, &c.—Climate—Contiguity no criterion—Bonchurch and Shanklin—Nice, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Menton, &c.—Climate by the sea—London specialties—May Fair and Belgravia—Belgravia proper—Belgravia by courtesy—Belgravia improper—London clay— Gravelly soils—Ghostly gravel—Real gravel—Good and bad sides—Situation for a living-house—Situa- tion for a season-house—Sunshine-potentiality— North, south, east or west?—The House-agent’s view—How to get bearings—A floral compass CHAPTER IV. SOIL. Ground-air—Digging up carbonic acid—Movement of ground-air—Poisonous soils—Poisoned soils—Geo- logical Survey Map—Our neighbours’ nuisances— The moral of it—Ground-water—Damp soil—The phthisical theory—A doubtful advantage—Amateur drainage—Absorption of heat—Herbage—Radiation of heat—Healthy soils—Unhealthy soils—Made soils ......... CHAPTER V. CONSTRUCTION. The three requirements—The concrete shield—Rotting of timbers — Thirsty bricks — The bottom of the