Screens. To be furnished and set, for all outside doors and windows that open; made from best, clear, thoroughly seasoned white pine, i-inch thick, to be stained and varnished three coats. Screens are to be fitted with lifts, springs, and runs, so that they can be used for either upper or lower half of sash, with adjustable run.
Wood frames to be covered with 14-mesh best approved gal vanized wire, using heavy 13-mesh for doors and cellar windows.
Grounds and Furring. Purr ceilings and rafters in finished portion of attic with 1 by 2-inch spruce furring strips, 12 inches on centers, nailed to every beam; and furr out in finished attic rooms for 3-foot 6-inch walls, also for plastering next basement walls, with 2 by 4-inch studding set flat.
Put grounds for i-inch plastering around all door and window openings where there is no ground casing; and for base, wainscot, wood cornice, etc., as directed. Two grounds behind base.
Put corner beads on all projecting angles; secure well; set true and plumb.
Under-Floors. Lay under-floors, except h basement, of good, square-edged spruce boards, surfaced on one side to even thick ness, and nailed to every bearing with two S-penny nails. End joints to be cut over beam in every case.
Sheathing Paper. Lay two thicknesses of approved sheathing paper between the under and the finished floors.
Interior Finish.—Material, Etc. All stock to be best quality, unless otherwise specified, free from knots or sap, thoroughly sea soned or kiln-dried. All to be smoothed, scraped, and sandpapered by hand before putting up and at completion; such work as is to have a natural finish, to be properly cleaned. No interior finish to be taken into building until plastering is dry.
Priming back of Finish. Standing finish to be given a prim ing coat on back by Contractor furnishing interior finish before it leaves the shop.
Curved Finish. Is to be sprung on or worked from large stock, so that no kerf marks can be seen.
Main House Finish. All finish on main part of house, except inside of closets, to be moulded.
Service Finish. All parts of the building devoted to and inside of closets, to have flat finish.
Wainscot Sheathing. Four feet high, North Carolina pine, to be set in back entry, kitchen, and bathroom, matched and beaded like approved sample, s inch by 21 inches, with 12-inch rebated cap and no base.
Paneled Wainscot. To be 3 feet high, paneled as shown, with raised panels. To have 6-inch base, moulded cap, b-inch rails and stiles, loose panels.
SCHEDULE:—To be used in dining room.
Birch. Unless otherwise specified, all birch to be best selected first quality, red birch, of even color.
be used in dining room.
Oak. Unless otherwise specified, all oak to be best selected thoroughly seasoned American quartered white oak, to show good grain, and to be free from shakes, knots, stains, or any other imper fections.
North Carolina Hard Pine. Unless otherwise specified, to be selected first quality.
To be used as follows: Picture Moulding. Of same wood as finish, around principal rooms of first story, 11; by 21 inches; around all chambers, second story, main house, s inch by inch. Unless otherwise directed, to be 1 foot 6 inches below ceiling; and where there is a cornice, inch below cornice. Picture moulding to be finished by painter, except last coat, before putting up.
Closets. To have high shelf and strips all around, for clothes hooks. Unless otherwise directed, shelf to be s inch by 14 inches, 5 feet 10 inches above floor, with hook rows at 4 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 6 inches above floor.
Linen Closet. To have counter shelf, with four drawers below, and with shelves above, 16 inches apart, extending to ceiling; these to be fitted with doors hinged at bottom to drop down.
China Closet. To have counter shelf 2 feet 8 inches above floor; paneled, hinged doors and 8 drawers, one drawer subdivided, under; hinged, glazed doors and 5 shelves, over. Frame for sink. High closet over sink, to have glazed doors and 3 shelves. To have 8 inches clear space over counter shelf.
Pantry. To have counter shell as shown 2 feet 8 inches high, with four b-inch by 14-inch shelves above, and 4 drawers below, one drawer being divided for knives, etc.; space for 2 flour-bins with doors; remainder of space to have shelving enclosed by sheathed doors. All this to be of clear white pine or whitewood, for natural finish.