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Title: The Surveyor and municipal engineer
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering Engineering Great Britain
Publisher: London, Temple Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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parlour, and will give a fair-size second bedroomit.Wash ho ise In some districts a wash-house is re-quired away from the house. I from thelery. On a -mall farm a building of this descriptionserves othi i purposes, such i i for cycles,perambulators, &c. If a separate wash-house iserected, it is not a had plan to provide two coppers-one for the family laundry, and the other for boilingfood for cattle. ib\ lOUS that one copper C serve the two purpo February l.;. 1914. AND COUNTY ENGINEER. 317 The Structure of the House.—In deciding on thestructure of the house, much must depend upon thelocal materials at hand, but the building should be ofsuch a nature as to ensure I he minimum of expendi-ture in subsequent repairs and upkeep. Economy facing brick oi even i oloui are nol requiredsound, common I,ricks, of a texture thai will weatheiwell, are preferable in every way. In some ca e ilmay be necessary to provide ca : ■ dls oi i, e tincheaper lands of bricks, and rough-t-asi them. The
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should therefore be soughl by careful planning andconstruction, and no! by undu i cutting down ol thesize of the room, or the qualitj of the materials, workmanahip and fittings. In selecting materials prefer-ence should always be given to those which belong to(he district, in cases where bricks are used, expensive old-fashioned method of giving a wide projection to • and -.Uilcs will materially assist in k<the walls dry. but the gables should no1 have apensive barge board and timber work which is c,; upkeep in the way oi painting. The height orooms on the ground floor should be 8ft. from flooi 318 THE SURVEYOR AND MUNICIPAL Febbuasy 13, I1H. I ling, and thi bedrooms 6 i» 6 in I nging of the roo) B i. to the collars ol the ceiling, The Floors. The ti ; fl s at and \\ ill .in vei I or 1 he cullery, panl rj and i.i 11 . The kitchen oi lit ing i oom flooi should be i ally of j I, red t iles on concrete, bul in districts there is a prejudice againsi this. A consider-able in m hi mud

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