SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE ERECTION OF A FORESTER’S COTTAGE. 369 
All carpenter work required by plumbers or bellhangers to be 
provided. The window glass and all the interior of the house to be 
left clean at completion, and all work in connection with this 
department to be finished in a tradesman-like manner, and left 
complete, in accordance with the foregoing specification, general 
conditions, and plans to which they refer. 
(See General Conditions.) 
SLATER WoRK. 
The roof lights shall be provided by the carpenter, but securely 
fixed into the proper places by the slater. 
The roofs, including roof of porch and roofs and sides of win- 
dows, shall be covered with best dark blue Port Dinorwick slates, 
16 inches by 10 inches, and not less than 2 inch thick. The 
slating to be put on with an average cover of 23 inches, each slate 
double-nailed with 12-lb. nails (dipped in oil when red-hot), and 
the slating to be fair and securely laid, and well shouldered with haired 
plaster. The ridges to be covered with fireclay ridge tiles, with 7-inch 
wings, bedded on cement, and carefully jointed and pointed with 
the same. The skews, raggles, and chimney-heads to be carefully 
pointed with cement, and the whole made weather-proof, and 
finished in a tradesman-like manner, according to the foregoing 
specification, general conditions, and plans to which they refer. 
(See General Conditions.) 
PLUMBER WORK. 
The roof lead shall weigh 6 lbs. per square foot; sill-pieces of 
skylights to be 14 inches broad, turned up inside. Angle-pieces of 
roof windows, chimney necks, etc., 10 inches broad, grooved into 
the stone. The rhones to be of cast-iron, half round, 5 inches 
in diameter, supported on malleable-iron straps 1} inches by 4 inch, 
securely screwed to sarking. The down pipes shall be round, of 
cast-iron, 3 inches in diameter, and secured to the walls with iron 
crampets ; to have rain-water heads at top, with proper covers, and 
shoes at bottom, and to discharge on fireclay basins with iron 
gratings, having sufficient sand-traps connected with the drains. 
Waste-pipes.—The soil-pipe to be of 6-lb. lead, 5 inches in 
diameter, carried 2 feet through the walls, and joined to a “ Buchan’s 
trap” with air-grating over it. The upper end of soil-pipe to be 
carried through the roof, and finished with an air-pump ventilator 
