Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    own Drain-doctor ; with a few Easy Rules for the conversion of Foul Dens into Health-Palaces without cost of Time, Money or Education.” What it is its title-page proclaims—just “ Hints ” to the househunter and the householder. Simple suggestions in plain, every-day, intelligible Eng- lish, on the various points of house-construction and house-arrangement which careful study and wide experience have shown to be essential to the health and comfort of a plain, every-day, intelligent Englishman. Its general principle may be described com- pendiously, shorthand-wise, not as the three R’s, but as the three C’s—conciseness, completeness and simplicity. It has been written at the request of the So- ciety, and with the special view of providing its clients with a handy book of house-construction ; which, without bewildering with abstruse calcula- tion or technical phraseology, shall furnish sound and practical suggestions as to what to seek and what to avoid, how to “spot” defects and defi- ciencies, and how to get them rectified when “ spotted.” More than this the non-professional house- hunter or householder cannot reasonably expect to be enabled to do. He can reasonably attempt to do more only where he finds himself oppressed by a hopeless superfluity of time and temper, and the victim of a passionate desire for the ultimate reduplication of his builder’s bill.