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iron nulls for t\>rniiiig a key driven into the walls or other lirickwirk at intervals
close enough to secure the same. Cover the rulyes with socketed roll Stafford-
fhire ridge tiles set in cement ; tlie tiles to be grooved for cresting (if any). Cover
the hipi with proper lapping hip tiles or rolled hip tiles. Provide ornamental tile
cresting (if any), and fix same on ridges where shown on elevations.
Fillits (other than lead flashing) against the liriekwork, where requisite, of gauged
stuff or cement, formed on nails driven at intervals to form a hold. Fillets of
brick or stone may be built up with the wall, level or raking; and if they should
be preferred, they must be described in the bricklayer's or mason's works.
If the slating be required to be rendered air-tight, it must be described to be pcjintcd
on the inside with lime and hair mortar ; but this pointing, from the expan.sion
and contraction arising from heat and cold, may soon fall out. The slater to be
answerable for twelve months for his work.
All the slating is to be rendered up perfect on completing the building, and all job-
bing work to be performed that may become nec('ssary as the Avork is carried on.
Provide slates to form damp-proof course in walls ; and for the bottoms of hot water
pipe channels (if any).
Slate slabs are now much used for sinks, cisterns, steps, skirtings, sills, covering to
bay windows, mouldings, doorsteps, linings chimney-pieces, trusses, lavatories,
nosing to steps, &c. ; they must be described.
MASOX.
2284. The stone to be used in a building generally depends of course on the place where
it is to be built, unless, without regard to expense, the employer determines on
the use of any particular sort. Chap. II. Section II. furnishes the means of describ-
ing the best of its son. In London, Portland stone is most used. Granite or
other hard stone is used where great strains and pressures occur, or where use and
wear, and the action of the weather, indicate its employment.
Having described the sort of stone selected to be of the best quality, free from all
vents, shakes, &c., the next direction is, that it shall be throughout lai I in thedirec-
tioQ of its natural bed in the quarry ; and if the whole building is of stone, many
of the following particulars will be unnecessary'. Where the building is only
faced with stone, then the . . . fronts (describing them) are to be faced with
Portland (or other) stone, ash hiring in courses to full in with the courses of biick-
woi'k ; the stretchers of such ashlaring being 4^ inches deep and the headers
y inches, with bond stones running through the whole thickness of the wall in the
proportion of
^g
of the face, to be introduced where the piers allow. No quoins
to show a thickness of less than 12 inches. The whole to Ije cramped with gun-
metal cramps, the mason finding the same and properly running them with lead.
Where the building is of hrick with done dressings, thenTo provide and set a
Portland stone (or other stone or granite) plinth all round (or part, as the case
may be) the building, . . . fret , . . inches high and 8^
thick, in stones not less
than 3 feet in length, the vertical joints to be cramped with T cramps not less
than 12 inches long. Describe whether joints are to be close or channelled, and
whether ashlar is to be rustieked (rockworkod). To jjrovitlo and tix at the angles
of the building, as shown upon the drawings, solid quoins of Port'and (or other)
stone [describe whether close, chamfered, or channelled joints, and whether
rustieked] of the length and height shown.
Kentish Bar;. The Kentish rag to be of the best quality, from the quarries at
Boughton, sound and free from hassock, laid in random courses, galleted and
pointed with dark mortar. A sufficient number of bond stones to be built in,
one through stone (at least) to each yard superficial.
Bath Stone. To be the best Bath stone from Sumsion's, Pictor's, or Randall and
Saunders's Combe Down quarries (no Farleigh Down stone to be used), to be laid
on its natural bed in all eases, and cleaned off when set. All plinths, bases, and
other work for a height of 4 Icet above the ground level to be of Box Ground
stone.
Random walling
of
local xtone. The stone fur the walls generally is to be bruuL'ht
from . . . (state the quarry), that for the foundations (unless bi-ickwork is used
for them) to be of large size
;
all those in the visible surface of the walls are lo
be carefully hammered, scabbled, or sawn (as the quality of the stone and nature
of the work may require). All stone used in tlie main walls of the building to bo
of good scantling, and no very thin stone will lie allowed in any part.
Walls with concrete cores. The external face to be built up in courses of hammered,
scabbled, or sawn stone. The internal face to be built up in sawn (or other) ashlars,
or in rough brickwork, in English bond, or rubble if it is to be plastered. The