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Title: Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ...
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American School of Correspondence
Subjects: Architecture Building Carpentry
Publisher: Chicago : American Technical Society
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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color is desirable. The problem of the aesthetictreatment of concrete construction is one that requires separate andparticular consideration. Its solution has, as yet, been hardlyattempted. Hollow terra-cotta tile is another material that is beingmodernly used more and more as a structural base to take an exteriorplaster surface finish. The student desiring to obtain a wider knowledge of the intricatesubject of exterior plastering, may be referred to several articles pub-lished in the 1907 numbers of The Architectural Review, Boston. Fora work treating historically and practically of the entire art and craft ofplastering—^^\-ithin and without the dwelling—see Mr. William IMillarstreatise Plaster, Plain and Decorative. It would be as well toremember, in consulting the latter volume, that it was issued in 1S97,and that the subject is treated from the point of view of an Englishworkman, accustomed to methods and materials somewhat differentfrom those common in American practice. 395
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EXTERIORS AND INTERIOR OF HOUSE SHOWN IN PLAN ON PAGE 399 PAINTING Introductory. Tlie first thing a man wishes to know when hecontemplates painting a house, is the cost. This will obviously dependon the cost of labor, of materials, and the kind of materials chosen.The outside of a house is painted, either in whole or in part; the interiorijiay be painted or varnished. Some houses have their walls partlycovered with shingles; these shingles are sometimes painted, andsometimes—in fact, often—left unpainted; but what is called the trim—that is, the boarding about the eaves, windows, doors, the base-board,and corner-pieces—is painted. Shingles, either wall or roof, are oftenstained with a creosote stain consisting of a coloring matter dissolvedor suspended in a liquid called creosote, which is applied for the purposeof preserving them; and though instances can be cited in which wall-shingles that were never stained are still doing good service althoughbelieved to be now two hundre

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