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 1'2G COTTAGE, FAU.M, AND VILLA ARCIIITLCTLTIE. '242 turned balusters housed into the same. The posts are to be vvrouglit, framed, and chamfered, seven inches square, with iron tenons (square 243 pieces of iron fitted into mortises, that is, into holes cut to receive them) at bottom ; and circular wrought framed braces at top, to support tlie eaves of the project- ing roof of the kitchen, wash-house, &c. The carpenter and joiner are to find all tools, labour, glue, nails, and every description of ironmongery, locks, bolts, bars, hinges, fastenings, and the fixing of the same, and every thing required for the completion of their works ; which must be done in the best and in the most substantial and workmanlike manner; and to prepare and fix all kind of beads, stops (a term variously applied, but chiefly to slips nailed on for doors or shutters to shut against, or for fixing work:, fillets, grounds, linings, and backings (back linings', required for the perfect execution of the above, whether the same may or may not be minutely specified in this particular ; the whole to be done, subject to the provisions in the general particular at the end hereof. 240. Specification of Plumbers Work. Flashings of milled lead ten inches wide, weighing five pounds a superficial foot, to be chased into the brickwork (see § 85), and fixed with wall-hooks (fig. 244.), where the roof abuts against the brick walls, as well as to each of the chimney shafts, which must have aprons (strips of ^^^^^~^^^==::--~_ '^ lead, to throw the wet from the jomt ^^~^^^^~^^^;r"~— -— _ it between the roof and the cliimney ~-^ James500 (talk) 14:54, 28 January 2020 (UTC)^ — '■ shaft) where they are required. The gutters against the chimney shafts to be covered with lead weighing seven pounds to the superficial foot. The hips, ridges, and valleys to be covered with milled lead, fifteen inches broad, weighing five pounds the superficial foot ; the whole to be properly lapped, dressed (smoothed), and nailed with lead-headed nails. The sink to have a six-inch brass grate and b'ell-trap (see figs. 222, 223, and 224), and a two and a half inch lead pipe. A good stout four-inch lead pump barrel, weighing 2 qrs. 14 lbs., with bucket, sucker, and wrought-iron thandle, complete, and forty feet of two and a half inch lead suction pipe, to be put up in he wash-house. 241. Specification of Glaziers Work. The basement story windows to have lead lights, and Newcastle crown-glass (crown-glass is white or colourless, and is so called to distinguish it from green glass), in quarries. All the sashes, including that of the front door, to be glazed with good second Newcastle crown-glass ; the best squares to be selected for the sitting-rooms. 242. Specification of Painter's Work. To knot (cover the knots with paint, before the general painting), prime (give the first coat), and paint the whole of the external wood and iron work four times in oil, with good white lead, and to finish the same in a light stone colour ; with the" exception of the doors, which arc to be finished olive green. The whole of the joiner's work, internally, with the exception of the floors, shelves, and the risers and treads of the stairs, to be knotted, primed, and painted three times in good white lead and oil ; and the sitting-rooms to be flatted (the glossy appearance of the 244