State Dairy Association. 



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A CONCRETE HOUSE. 



(By Wm. Riehl, Potosi, Mo.) 



In compliance with your request I am sending you a photo- 

 graph and plan of our cement house. The size of the house is 

 28x34 feet; contains eight rooms and bath room; cost $1,800, in- 

 cluding hot water heater and system; cellar 20x28 feet; built of 

 solid concrete, one part cement and nine parts sand and gravel. 

 We put a good many rock in the cellar walls. Thickness of walls : 

 Footing, 15 inches; up to first floor, 12 inches; above first floor, 9 

 inches. Cost of excavating cellar, cement, hauling sand and gravel, 



and labor for putting up walls, $230. In putting up the cellar walls 

 we boxed up in the usual way to the first floor. In building the 

 upper walls we followed instructions given in your "Cement Work- 

 ers' Handbook," page 37, except that we put box all around the 

 building, as we found this method decidedly the best. Would have 

 boxing not less than 12 inches; 13 inches is better. Use for the 

 boxing or frames the best of lumber one and one-fourth inches thick, 



