Cottage building, or, Hints for improving the dwellings of the working classes and the labouring poor / by C. Bruce Allen ; with notes and additions by John Weale and other authors.

  • Allen, C. Bruce (Charles Bruce)
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cottage building, or, Hints for improving the dwellings of the working classes and the labouring poor / by C. Bruce Allen ; with notes and additions by John Weale and other authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    courses would be enough for a bearing of two feet from centre to centre of the joists. (Fig. 2 ]Fig. 21.—Section of tiie floor. The upper floors of cottages have lately been executed of arched brickwork in mortar. The arches (in one case) were seven feet span, and turned in half a brick, except at the springing and the skew-backs; they rose about one inch in every foot in span; the spandrils were filled in with concrete, and the tile floor afterwards laid with mortar. Instead of brickwork, arches formed of hollow pots have been proposed, which are much lighter. The annexed drawing represents a section of a fire-proof floor formed of iron bearers with brick or hollow pot arches : one or two rods might be necessary to prevent lateral thrust, Fig. 22.—Section of fire-proof floor. and to make the floor perfectly independent of the walls, except where the bearers rest on them. Either a plaster, tile, or wooden floor might be laid on it. (Fig. 22.) The subjoined engraving represents the opening for the fire- place, with the slab for the hearth and trimming joist; and instead of an arch in brickwork, as usual, a series of curved tiles. This it will be seen must answer all the uses which the ordinary brick trimmer is supposed to FiS- 23.—Section of tile trimmer, possess, would be neater, and would require much less labour in the fixing. (Fig. 23.) As the firmness and stability of a brick or stone wall de- pends so much on its being built without the admission of any