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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    purpose. Of course it is the architect who must practically see to this. Very good work may be made with Stanford’s joints. With these joints it is only necessary to use a little Russian tallow and resin. The extra price of the pipe is fully compensated by the saving in labour and excellence of the result. When pipes run under the floors, as they must do in most town houses, iron pipes, coated with a patent preservative solution, invented by Dr. Angus Smith, or treated by Professor Barfif’s process, have of late years often been used, the joints being made with lead.* It is a good rule, however, to bear in mind that, wherever it is possible to avoid it, as in detached or semi-detached buildings, no drain at all should run underneath the building. In every well-planned system of draining, the architect will so arrange that, by means of man- holes, the entire length of the drain and its branches shall be easily accessible, so that in case of need a brush may be passed from end to end without dis- * The author has used iron pipes, but considers that they have some practical disadvantages, and he thinks that what is still re- quired is a better glazed stoneware pipe with a better joint than is at present in the market. Man’s ingenuity will doubtless ere long supply the want. The public are not free from blame for much defective drainage. Too many people only think how cheaply they can get their drains laid, instead of how perfect they can get materials and workmanship. The manufacturers reply to the demand by the supply of pipes too cheap to be good. The “jerry” or jobbing builder supplies the bad workmanship, and the jerry sanitary engineer looks on approvingly, or doesn’t look on at all, but—takes is fee.