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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 82

[introduction]

Site Level.—The building site is supposed to be level and on solid ground.

Excavation.—Excavate the several trenches for walls 18 inches deep, or until such depth as a solid foundation is obtained; also excavate for heating chamber to depth shown on drawing.

Materials.—All materials to be of the best description of their several kinds. If it should be found in the different districts desirable to build in other materials than herein described, the walls could be substituted in either stone, brick, or concrete; in which case the walls should be hollow, say, from 3 inches to 4 inches.

Concrete Work.—All foundation walls to be 12 inches thick, built on a solid foundation, the top of walls to be 6 inches higher than the surface.

Lay concrete 4 inches thick in the whole of the floors, except in cheese-room. Concrete to be composed of one part of best Portland cement, and three parts of mixed fine and coarse gravel, and one of sand. Floors to have an ½-inch top dressing in compo. of one of best Portland cement to one of sand.

Also provide for a slight inclination in the floors to an indent or flat gutter, by which the water may easily be swept out.

Piles under partition walls are likewise to be made in concrete.

Timber.—All timber to be red-pine (rimu), unless otherwise specified, free from sap or any other defects; all interior visible woodwork to be dressed.

Piles.—Piles below upright in cheese-room to be heart of totara, to be set 18 inches into the ground, and well fixed, to be 12 inches square or diameter.

Bottom Plates.—Bottom plates to be 6-inch by 4-inch heart of totara, properly bedded in cement on all walls.

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Sleepers,—Sleepers below floor of cheese-room to be 6-inch by 4-inch, properly spiked to piles.

Studs, &c.—Studs in all walls and gables to be 6 inches by 2 inches, 18 inches apart from centres. Walls to be trimmed out for doors, windows, and other openings. Corner studs tobe 6 inches by 6 inches.

Top plates to be red-pine, 6 inches by 3 inches, mortised and spiked to studs.

Braces.—Braces in walls to be 8 inches by 1 inch, placed diagonally, checked into studs, and securely fixed at each intersection with the studs, and to be placed wherever required or necessary to insure a firm wall.

Joists.—Floor joists to be 9 inches by 2½ inches, to be placed not more than 18 inches apart from centres.

Ceiling Joists,—The whole of the ceiling joists, except over the milk-and cheese-room, to be 6 inches by 2 inches, 18 inches apart, collar-ties and struts to be 8 inches by 1 inch.

Arched Ceilings.—The ceilings over milk-and cheese-rooms to be arched, as shown in sections; ribs to be nailed together in two thicknesses of 1-inch boarding, and breaking joints to be about 18 inches apart, properly strutted and hung up to rafters with 8-inch by 1-inch boards; ceilings to be trimmed out for ventilation, shafts, and flues.

Rafters to be 5 inches by 2 inches. Ridges and valleys to be 10 inches by l½ inches.

Beams.—Beams to uprights of revolving shelves in cheese-room to be five in number, 9 inches by 4 inches, to be mortised and pinned to uprights, and securely braced overhead to keep them in a parallel position.

Pole plates to be 5 inches by 2 inches.

All scantling in front of porch to be 4 inches by 2 inches.

Sarking.—The roofs to be covered with 8-inch by 1-inch boards, laid diagonally and securely fixed to rafter.

Cover the roofs with totara or kauri shingles, laid to 4½-inch weather, and to be made perfectly watertight,

N.B.—Shingle roof is specified, that being the coolest roof, but, should the locality be such that an iron roof would be preferable, the following would apply to such: Cover the sarking with best roofing felt in long sheets, to lap about 1 inch; also cover the whole of the roofs with corrugated galvanized iron, page 15 good English brand, 34 gauge, fixed to have two corrugations side lap, and not less than 6-inch end lap, and fixed by 3-inch lead-headed wire nails; care to be taken not to indent the iron. Iron to be laid so as to lap with the prevailing winds.

The necessary trimming out for engine-funnel to be made in the roof, to leave at least 12 inches clear space all round the funnel; space to be covered with thick sheet-iron.

Outside Boarding.—The whole of the outside walls and gables, if of timber, to be covered with 12-inch by l1/8-inch machine-dressed double-rebated totara boarding, to cover 2-inch lap, and worked as shown in detailed drawing; angle-stops to be 4 inches by 2 inches. The plinth to be of totara, 2 inches thick, chamfered. All soffits of projecting part of the roof to be 11/8 inches thick, barges of gable-ends and covering boards of roofs to be 2 inches thick, and gable-ends to have plain moulding and chamfered barges.

Lining.—The whole of the interior walls and ceilings, including the arched ceilings, to be covered with 6-inch by ¾-inch tongued-and-grooved dressed red-pine boards. The whole of the walls to be filled in with sawdust, or other approved materials, except in such places where openings are required for ventilation or otherwise. Also fill in the whole of the circular ceilings and gable-ends of cheese-room only. The circular ceiling over milk-room is not to be filled in, but the ribs are to be covered with good strong calico before the lining is put on to prevent all dust from falling into the room.

Flooring.—Flooring in cheese-room to be tongued-and-grooved kauri, 4 inches by 11/8 inches.

Windows.—The whole of the sashes to be made of totara, 2 inches thick. The whole of the sashes to cheese-room, receiving stage, and two centre sashes of gable end of milk-room, also fanlight, to be hung on pivots, to have all the necessary frames, stops, iron pivots, quadrants, cords, and other fixtures complete. All other sashes to be double hung in box frames, to have the necessary stops, beads, cords, weights, pullies, fasteners, &c., complete.

Outside door and window casings to be 6 inches by 1½ inches, Inside to be finished with a bead only.

All sashes and fanlights to be glazed with 21-ounce glass.

Doors.—The whole of the doors to be made of 6-inch by page 16 1¼-inch boards, dressed on both sides, to be ledged doors as shown in drawings, to be hung to l½-inch rebated door-jambs, to have all the necessary 21-inch T hinges, 7-inch Carpenter's rim-locks, barrel-bolts, &c., complete.

Tank Stand.—Build water-tank frame outside, where shown on plan; sole pieces to be 12-inch by 6-inch totara, laid flat on a solid surface; uprights of same to be 8 inches by 8 inches, top plate to be 8 inches by 6 inches; frame to be properly braced with 6-inch by 2-inch braces, securely spiked, and to have a 5-inch iron rod through the centre, as shown. Top of stands to be covered with 2-inch planking. The whole of the timber in this frame to be heart of totara.