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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 37 all the foundations and the cross-wall under the bed-room floor, and the external walls with stones properly headed (squared at the ends) and prepared (so as to lie flat), laid in random courses (courses of unequal height, fig. 44) ; the external face with a neat garreted 44 45 46 v n /< joint (the joint stuck with small pieces of stone), with brick coins (corners) and common skewback (a bevelled abutment, fig. 45, o o,) brick arches, set in Roman cement, over the doors and windows. The back kitchen, fuel-house, and privy, to be carried up in four-inch brick-work. To fill in the cross partitions with four-inch brick nogging flat (bricks laid flat, or in bed, fixed between, and flush, i. e. even, with the stud-work, fig. 46). To build nine- inch brick spandrils and steps to the front door, with proper foundations. (The span of an arch is the distance between the two points from whence it springs, and spandrils for door steps are the arches, or the walls, which support the ends of the steps). To build the chimney jambs (sides, fig. 47, p), breasts (fronts, q), backs, r, 47 and shafts, s, in brick-work, with flues, nine inches by fourteen inches in the clear ; properly gathered and pargetted (plastered in the inside with a mixture of common lime mortar, fresh cow- dung, and loam) ; and provide an additional flue for a copper (boiler). The fire-places to have each a strong iron chimney-bar (bar for supporting the breast-work, or front side of the flues). All the door and window-frames to be properly bedded (placed in mortar), and pointed (the joints neatly closed) with good lime and hair mortar. To pave the kitchen and entrance with good pa^^ng bricks, bedded and jointed in mortar ; wheeling in stones and gravel, which are to be well rammed in and consolidated, in suflicient quantity to raise the floor to the level shewn in the section ; and to pave the back kitchen, fuel-house, and privy, with common stocks, bedded in sand : the whole to be properly currented (laid to such a slope as to carry off' the water). The bricklayer is to find scaffolding and ladders, and to fix and refix the same, as occasion may require ; and to cut the chasings (to cut into the brick-work) for lead, and all rakes (to cut a rake, is to reduce to a smooth slope the face of brick-work which has been left in a rough slope, as indicated by the dotted line, fig. 48, t), and splays (a splay signifies a return of work deviating from a right angle, and is generally applied to the bevelled jambs of windows and doors, as at u, in fig. 48) required ; and make good (reinstate what may have been deranged during the operations) ; and, from time to time, to clear away the rubbish arising from the work during its progress. The bricklayer is to find all materials; lime, sand, tackle, carriage, and labour, for the completion of the foregoing works in a sound and workmanlike manner. 80. Specification of Plasterer's Work. To colour twice over, in a good warm-tinted stone colour, the brick coins, arches, chimney shafts, and the exterior ~ of the back kitchen, fuel-house, and privy. To lathe (to nail on the laths), lay, set, and whiten, the ceilings ' 1 ' --J^ of the kitchen, bed-room, and entrance ; and render i set (first and second coats of plaster in two-coat work) I the walls and partitions, and lime-white (whitewash) twice over the back kitchen, fuel-house, and privy _ inside. The plasterer is to find all materials, tools, carriage, and workmanship required for the comple- tion of his work ; and to do the same in a workmanlike manner. TT P^ 48 O- I I 3