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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 873 picked bricks ; the third floor of dressed flooring bricks ; and afterwards the whole to have one coat of cement inside. A waste drain to be laid from this into one of the principal drains conveying the water into the main culvert in the street (which, in this case, is below the basement floor), but first a proper stench-trap to be formed. A 12-inch culvert to be laid in cement from the water-closets into the main culvert or sewer ; smaller drains intersecting the kitcliens, &c., where directed; the whole to enter into one drain in each area, where a proper stench-trap and grate are to be formed. To build in the back-kitchen the necessary brickwork for supporting the stone sink, with a brick bench, 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet, at one end ; and also the brickwork for a copper and furnace, the inside of which is to be lined with fire bricks. All the flues of the respec- tive fireplaces to be built circulai*, 12 inches in diameter, when the pargeting is laid, except those of the kitchens, which are to be 14 inches in diameter. Two circular flues to be formed in the haunches of the arches, with openings where directed, for the conveyance of hot air from the stoves to the conservatories and other parts. To set all the grates, ranges, and stoves, required for the several fireplaces, using fire-brick facings ; to dig out, and form a cold-air duct to supply the stoves as required. To build arches, &c., for the outside steps ; also area walls to the windows, and i^-brick trimming arches to the fire- places of the chamber and attic story. To build the columns of the conservatories with the required reveals, &c., as per plan ; and those of the portico with circular bricks; both laid in cement. 1804. Carpenter and Joiner. All the timber used for the carpenter's work to be of the best description of Memel or Riga fir (except where otherwise directed), perfectly well seasoned, and free from dead knots, shakes, or other defects. The roof to be framed as per plan and sections, the king-posts to be of oak, well screwed up with inch bolts and screws ; the wall-plating and bond to be dovetailed and halved at their angles, and pro» perly scarfed at their joinings. A tier of bond to be laid immediately under the chamber floor throughout all the walls ; and lintels to be laid over the openings of the doors and windows, of the width of the internal walls, and within half a brick of the out- side on the external wall. A proper quantity of old oak wooden bricks to be laid in the jambs of the openings, for the doors and windows. The ground floor joists to be of oak on oak sleepers, and the floors above to be framed (as directed) with two girders in each room, notched down on oak templates, 2 feet 6 inches by 4^ inches by 3 inches, with bridging joists, and ceiling beams and joists. The floors to be trimmed at the fire- places ; and each trimming joist to be 9 inches by 3 inches. To provide and fix all the necessary centres for the window, door, and chimney arches, and for the arches support- ing the ground floor ; which is to be of 1 ^^-inch split battens laid close, and constructed on strong fi'amed ribs, not more than 2^ feet apart, forming the required groins for the doors, windows, &c. The guttering to be laid with inch boarding on 3|^-inch by 3-inch bearers, and the boards to lie 9 inches up the roof; the valley boards to be J-inch deal, 9 inches wide on each face. No floor or ceiling joists, or studs to the partitions, to be more than 12 inches apart. The scantlings of the principal timbers to be as shown and figured on section. The conservatories and part under the portico to be covered with inch boarding, on 3-inch by 4-inch deal bearers (for lead). 1 805. Joiner. All the deals used in the joiner's work to be the best Petersburg or Christiania deals, free from sap and other defects, and well seasoned ; and if any of the work executed by the joiner shall, within the space of six months from its completion, shrink or fly, to the extent of one eighth of an inch, or in any other respect fail, the con- tractor shall, when required by the Architect, make good the same : he is to provide and fix the ironmongery, and all other ironwork mentioned, but not, provided for, in the smith's work. — Basement Floor. The doors to the two cellars, shoe-place, pantry, and china- closet to be 1^-inch proper ledgcd doors, hung with 12-inch cross garnet hinges, to 3-inch by 4- inch oak door frames, and on each is to be fixed a 9-inch stock lock, and a Norfolk thumb latch. The two kitchen doors to be 1^-inch thick, 4 panels and squares, hung with 3-inch cast butt hinges, to l^-inch rebated and roimded jambs; on each is to be a 7-inch iron and rimmed lock. The outward door (into area) to be 2-inch 6-panel bead fi ush and square ; hung with 4-inch butts to 4-inch by 2i^-inch rabbeted frame, and a beadec casing 4 inches by half an inch, and fixed round the jambs and soflfit to the outside, On it fix a 10-inch best iron-rimmed lock, and two 10-inch barrel bolts. The water- closet door to be l^^-inch, 4-paneled and square, hung with 3-inch butts to a S-inch by •t-inch door-frame ; and on it fix a 4-inch spring latch. The door to the coal-place to be l^^-inch proper ledged ; hung with hooks and riders (bands), fixed in the wall ; with a 10- inch stock lock and Norfolk latch. The ash-pit door to be inch-ledged, hung in the same way, and with a thumb latch. The windows to the best kitchen to be 1^-inch ovolo sashes, single hung, with deal-cased frames and oak sills ; and 1^-inch framed bead butt shutters, to be made to fold (in two flaps, with a rule joint) against the wall, with a small inch boxing, or architrave, made to receive them ; also inch rounded window boards. 5 I