Outside Finish
Outside Finish. Before The Building Is Ready For The Plasterer, The Outside And The Roof Must Be Made Tight. We Have Seen That The Gutters Arc Set And Primed Or Oiled To Protect Them Against Water; And Above The Glitter, And Rebated Or Tongued Into The Back, Is Set The ...
Painting
Painting. With The Hanging Of The Doors And The Setting Of The Hardware, The Mechanical Processes Will He Completed, And The Building Will Be Turned Over To The Painters For Finishing. Here The Methods And Materials Will Differ Little From Ordinary Painter's Work, And Mainly In The Lesser Amount Of ...
Painting
Painting. Exterior Painting. The Outside Fin Ish Of The House Should Have Received As Soon As Put Up The First Or Priming Coat Of Paint, This Is Usually Clone More Or Less By Piecemeal As The Different Parts Of The House Are Completed, And Will Require At- Fig. 93. Quarter ...
Pipes And Conduits
Pipes And Conduits. The Running Of Pipes And Conduits In Fireproof Buildings Brings Forward A System, Differing In Some Essentials From The Ordinary Piping Of Buildings With Wooden Floors. In The First Place, Less Cutting Of Material Is Available To Make Spaces For Pipes, And So More Careful Consideration Must ...
Plu Mbing
Plu Mbing Fixtures. The Bathtubs Are To Be Cast Iron, With Roll Rim And Standing Waste, Enameled On The Inside And Over The Roll, The Outside Finished With 3 Coats Of White Lead And Oil Paint And One Coat Of Outside Varnish. The Washtrays And Sinks Are To Be Of ...
Plumbing
Plumbing. As Soon As The Plasterers Have Removed Their Stagings From The House, The Plumber Can At Once Complete His Piping Work. In Some Cases It Will Have Been Necessary To Run The Main Soil Pipes Concealed Behind The Plaster, But It Is Much Better If They Can Be Run ...
Receipt For Insurance Policies
Receipt For Insurance Policies. (to Be Detached And Delivered To Contractor After Signing.) Received Of , Contractor, Fire Insurance Policies As Follows: , In Total Amount $2,600.00, Issued As Required By Agreement Dated September 15, 1907, For The Erection Of A Dwelling For Me At The Corner Of Ave. And ...
Roofing And Metal Work
Roofing And Metal Work. With The Completion Of The Exterior Masonry Of A Building Will Come, In Most Eases, The Covering In, As Practically Nothing Further Than The Rough Work Of Flooring Can He Done Inside Until The Work Is Protected Front The Weather By A Roof. For The Roof ...
Roofs
Roofs In The Previous Examples Or Problems, Attention Has Been Given To Putting The Student In Line Of Thinking In Materials. Under This Heading, Consideration Will Be Given To The Combination Of Materials In A Roof Covering, Partly Because A Good Roof Is One Of The Prime Necessities Of A ...
Sand
Sand Sand Will Be Considered Only In Connection With Cement (port Land Cement). See Notes Under Caption, "cement." The Province Of Sand With Cement Is Similar To That Of Brick In Masonry, On A. Small Scale. The Cement Acts In The Same Capacity As The Mortar Surrounding The Brick. If ...
Schedule
Schedule :— Registers Are To Be Laid Out According To An Approved Schedule Submitted By Each Bidder, Showing Size, Finish, Etc., For Each Room, With Size Of Supply Pipe. Locations Are To Be As Shown On Tans Or As Approved In Building, Before Proceeding With Work. Plumbing.—materials, Connections, Etc. All ...
Steam Heating
Steam Heating. Another Efficient Method Of Heating For Country Houses, Is By Direct Steam Radiation. This Consists In Circulating Steam Through Radiators Or Coils Placed Directly In The Rooms And Halls To Be Heated. This May Be Done Under High Or Low Pressure, But The Low Pressure Gravity Return System ...
Stone Masonry
Stone Masonry. Rubble. Of The Different Kinds Of Stonework, Nibble Masonry Less Preparation Of The Material Than Any Other Use Of The Stone, And Covers A Wide Range Of Construction, From Ordinary Founda Tion Walls, Such As We Have Already Considered, To The Handsome Well-pointed Masonry Of Churches And Other ...
Stone Work
Stone Work Walls. Furnish All Materials And Build Walls And Footings As Shown On Drawings, Of Good Local Stone In Irregular Courses, The First Twelve Inches To Be Laid Dry In The Trenches, And The Remainder To Be Laid In "half-cement" Mortar. The Whole To Be Laid To A Line ...
Studies In Materials
Studies In Materials The Primary Object Of This Paper Is Instruction; And There Are In Troduced Here Certain Problems Carried Along Lines Which Show The Particular Qualities Of The Material Under Consideration. Special At Tention Is Called To The Fact That These Problems Are Not Introduced Merely To Illustrate The ...
The Architects Position Under
The Architect's Position Under The Building Contract. Whatever Powers The Architect Has, Under The Building Con Tract, Which Is A Contract Between The Owner And The Contractor, Are Not Powers Which He Himself Can Enforce. The Parties To That Contract Have Not, By Virtue Thereof, Bound Themselves To Him. They ...
The Formal Contract
The Formal Contract After The Completion Of The Drawings And Specifications, It Is Customary To Award A Contract—i.e., To Enter Into An Agreement For Carrying Out The Work; And An Instrument Is Drawn For The Signature Of Both The Owner And The Contractor, Setting Forth Their Legal Rela Tions. Inasmuch ...
The Law Of Agency
The Law Of Agency. An Architect May Be Empowered, And Net, As Agent Of The Owner. Aside From This Possibility, The.law Of Agency Is So Much Involved In Business Transactions, That It Is Highly Desirable To Understand In Some Degree The Principles Of That Branch Of The Law. The General ...
The Law Of Contracts
The Law Of Contracts. The Building Contract, Commonly Wade Between The Owner And Builder, Confers Certain Powers Upon The Architect. While The Latter Is Not A Party To This Contract, And So Cannot Enforce It He Is By Reason Of It Drawn Into The Contractual Relations Of Others. For This ...
Tie Arc
Tie Arc T_iitect In Iiis Legal Relations. 1. Supposing An Architect And His Client Have Bargained For The Making Of Plans Alone. The Owner Then Writes To.the Archi Tect Offering To Pay 250 For Plans Such As Have Been Discussed. The Architect Writes A Note Sayin0-, I Will Accept Your ...
Use Of Words And
Use Of Words And General Requirements It Should Be The Object Of Every Specification Writer To Have The Words As Exact In The Expression Of Requirements Relative To Materials As Are The Drawings In Showing Their Forms; And No More Words Should Be Used Than Are Absolutely Necessary To Indicate ...