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Identifier: CementHousesAndHowToBuildThem (find matches)
Title: Cement houses and how to build them.
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: William A. Radford
Subjects: house plans -- catalogs domestic architecture cement houses concrete houses
Publisher: Radford Architectural Company
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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the groundwith concrete, one part Portland cement,two and one-half parts clean, coarse sandand five parts broken stone. After remov-ing forms, fill the excavation inside thewalls to within 8 inches of the ground levelwith cinders, gravel or broken stone andtamp hard. Pick with a stone axe thatpart of the inside wall that shows abovethe porous foundation and wet thoroughly.Fill the space on top of the cinders, etc.,with concrete to within one inch of thefoundation. Erect forms four feet highfor three-inch hollow core walls with ten-inch air chamber. In a circular form there are two sides,the inner and the outer. These are madein the same way, but cannot be of the same pattern, as the thickness of the walls comesbetween the two parts, making the radiusof the sides different. The simplest wayto make a circular form is to draw a circleof the size of the form desired and layboards around the circumference of thecircle. These boards should be lightlytacked together in place, and, using the
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same measure, mark the circle on them.They should then be knocked apart andsawed out along the lines marked,the pieces then being fastened securely to-gether. After making two or more circu-lar forms, place them at equal distancesapart and put on the side boards. Silo of Concrete Blocks. The methodused for the construction of a silo of thischaracter is as follows: Place five eight-inch rods with turn-buckles every four or 64 CEMENT HOUSES AND HOW TO BUILD THEM, five feet, the ends being down in the hol-low block sufficiently to hold while tighten-ing the tum-buckle. The lap or tie rodsused around the entire circle at the samecourse of blocks are made of half-inchrods. The jamb at the opening is made of2x12 wood, with a 1x4 board setting intothe recess of the block to prevent slipping,and two stops on the opening side for asliding plank. A casing board on the in-side is only required when the blocks have A- i 1: •3

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