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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 123 2S1 of arched vaulting is supported during its erection) as may be necessary for tlie brick- layer's or well-digger's use, in forming arches, trimmers, &c. 239. Specification of Joiner s IFork. All the timber used by the joiner to be the best well-seasoned yellow deal listed (listing is cutting off a strip of such boards as are blue and sappy at the edges, so as to leave only the true wood), free from sap, shakes, and large or loose knots. The whole to be neatly wrought, framed, and finished off (rubbed after being planed) with firestone (a kind of soft stone, which serves to smooth the sur- face), in the most substantial and workmanlike manner. — Floors. To lay good one- inch thick yellow deal straight-jointed floors in the sitting-rooms and passage ; and one- inch thick yellow deal folding floors throughout the chamber story. (The term folding is applied to a peculiar manner of laying floors. The first and fourth boards are bradded down (tacked, or slightly nailed ; from brad, a small nail made without a head, so that the nail may be sunk into the wood', with an intervening space, w, fig. 231, something less than the breadth of the two boards, o o, that are to go between ; so that when these two last are placed with their edges coinciding with the edges of those fixed, as shown by the section, m o o m, they rest, as it were, folded toge- ther in the middle, forming a ridge ; on which ridge two or more workmen jump, till they force the boards down flat between the other two, they are then secured with brads. Theobjectof this process is toprocurevery close joints.) The whole of the rooms to have proper oorders (narrow slips forming a margin) to the hearth slabs, &c. — Doors of Chamber Floor. To put one inch and a quarter thick four- paneled doors throughout this story, framed square on both sides, and hung with two inch and a quarter butt hinges (see fig. 65) ; and to have good iron rim locks, with plain brass knob furniture, one inch and a quarter single-rebated jambs (in fig. 232, p is the jamb, q the door, and r the rebate), with one-inch framed wrought and sunk grounds, five inches wide, and with quirk ovolo and fillets laid on to form the architraves. — Doors of Ground Floor. The doors opening into the entrance passage to be one inch and a half thick, six-paneled, and hung with three inch and a half butt hinges ; having good mortised locks (locks which are inserted in a mortise, cut edgewise into the style of the door), with plain brass knob furniture ; one inch and a quarter deal single-rebated jamb linings, with grounds (see fig. 12, in page 118) and mouldings the same as those of the doors of the chamber floor. The doors that open into the sitting-rooms to be moulded inside. The door at the top of the cellar stair, together with all the other internal doors on the ground story, that have not been specified, to be finished in the same manner as those of the chamber floor The front entrance to have a two-inch deal sash door ; one inch and a quarter astragal and hollow sash bar, fig. 233 (fig. 234 is an ovolo sash bar), circular-headed, with double- margined and diminished styles, hung with three inch and a half butt hinges, and pro- 232 F- 233 vided with two six-inch bright rod-bolts (see fig. 68), and a ten-inch iron rim drawback lock (having a bolt which draws back from the inside by means of a knob), with brass knobs ; the bottom of the door to be framed with three reeds, flush on one side, and square on the back, one-inch thick clamped lifting shutters, with studs and plates and screw fastenings, and one inch and a half rebated jamb linings and grounds, with mouldings to match the others. (Double-margined and diminished styles will be understood from fig. 235; in which, s is the style of its full breadth ; t the style diminished ; u the inner margin, for the purpose of receiving the shutter ; v the sash ; and w the panel. The section of the diminished style is shown at x, and the shutter by the dotted lines, y. ) The back entrance door to be one inch and three quarters thick, six-pa- 234