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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    Or even from perfect ones, when the supply of sparrows’ nests is in excess of the demand. 6. By the comparatively legitimate process of rain beating on their sicrface. The first of these sources of damp-supply may seem at first sight difficult to deal with, because, in the present stage of architectural science, it is found absolutely necessary that the lower portion of the walls should be more or less in contact with the ground. The problem, however, is solved by the introduction of a “ damp-proof course ”—that is to say, of damp-proof material carried through the whole thickness of the walls, above the highest point at which the ground is touched. A damp-proof course may be formed of— 1. Two or three courses of hard blue Stafford- shire bricks laid without mortar. This plan obtains pretty generally in the Midland counties. 2. Perforated stoneware slabs, examples of which may be seen at many of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway stations. 3. A layer of good asphalte, from three-eighths to three-fourths of an inch thick. This is an excellent plan, and in good buildings is now more used than any other. 4. Sheet lead. Also an excellent material, but costly. 5. A cheaper substitute, in the form of two layers of ordinary roofing slate, in cement. In one or other of these forms, or any other efficient equivalent ingenuity may suggest—a damp-