SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE ERECTION OF A FORESTER’S COTTAGE. 509 
Note.—The carpenter will give all outside woodwork two coats 
of oil paint, tints to be selected; also to varnish and grain 
“oak” the outside of the door. 
SLATER WorRK. 
The roofs to be covered with Port Dinorwick slates, 16 inches by 
10 inches, put on with a cover of 3 inches, double nailed, and well 
bonded. All raggles to be pointed with Portland cement. 
PLASTER WoRK. 
The plasterer will coat and finish in the usual way with good 
hair lime, all walls, ceilings, and partitions throughout, as also 
ceiling and walls of outside Water-Closet. Lath, to be supplied 
and nailed on by plasterer, to be of 4-inch red boards, split up to 
proper sizes. A 5-inch cornice to be run on the ceiling of the 
parlour. All beads to be properly relieved. Blisters, cracks, and 
breakages after other tradesmen to be made good. 
PLUMBER WoRK. 
The lead for all purposes to be soft melted, weighing 6 lbs. per 
superficial foot for ridges and flanks, and for all other purposes to 
be 5 lbs. per superficial foot. The ridges to be 13 inches broad, 
and the valleys 12 inches ; skew bottoms and chimney neck flashings 
to be 10 inches broad; flashings of dormers 9 inches, and soles of 
dormers 12 inches broad ; finial blocks to be covered with lead. 
The rones on all eaves to be Macfarlane’s No. 4; joints to be 
bedded in white lead, with the necessary stop-ends and drops to 
down-pipes, which will be 3 inches in diameter, secured to walls 
with iron holdfasts. Down-pipes to be set on 6-inch trap grating 
set in stone, and joined to a tile drain. 
The sink in the scullery to be of white enamelled fireclay, 26 
inches by 14 inches by 8 inches inside, with brass plug and chain, 
and 21-inch soil-pipe, trapped, of 6-lb. lead, with brass cleansing 
screw. The soil-pipe to be carried 2 feet beyond wall, and carefully 
joined to a tile drain. 
The Water-Closet in the house to be Troyford’s white earthen- 
ware, set on safe of 4-Ib. lead, having the necessary 14-inch supply 
pipe, and two-gallon syphon cistern complete. Soil-pipe 4} inches 
