306 The Country House 



Build the fireplaces of rough brick, making the openings 3' high above the floor, with 2" x f" 

 wrought-iron lintel to each opening. 



Turn 4" trimmer arches on centres to all fireplaces. 



Build finished fireplaces according to detail drawings, faced with 4" glazed American tiles, 

 two rows wide, to be secured by polished brass angle bars. Make all hearths of American uoglazed 

 red tiles without border and laid in Portland cement, same to be of dimensions shown on detail 

 drawings. Fireplaces to be lined with best Philadelphia glazed brick, as shflwn. These and all 

 tiles to be selected by the Owner. Provide and set ash grates to all first-story fireplaces. 



Terra Cotta. All flues lined with terra-cotta flue lining. 



Steel and Iron. Furnish and set "Lally" columns 4" in diameter with caps and bases, 

 where shown on basement plan. 



Lathing dud Plastering. The side walls of the cellar are not to be lathed and plastered. All 

 other walls, ceilings, including cellar ceiling, partitions and work that is furred off throughout the 

 building, are to be lathed with sound and dry spruce laths put on " apart, with four nailings to 

 each lath, and joints broken every third course on ceilings and ever}' sixth course on walls; no 

 lath to be put on vertically nor to run from one room to another. 



Plaster all work which is lathed with a first coat of mortar composed of one barrel of pure 

 lime, thoroughly slacked and strained, to three barrels of clean, sharp sand, free from loam and 

 salt, adding one and OIK- half bushels of goat hair, well beaten, soaked and thoroughly mixed in. 

 Stack the mortar outside of house five days In-fore using. This coat is to be thoroughly dry 

 before the finishing coat is applied. All ceilings are to be made perfectly level, all \\alls true. 

 straight and plumb, and all angles sharp and true. The brown coat to be carried back of all 

 trim, base, wainscoting, etc., to floor. Finish with a coat of sand finish composed of one part 

 white-lime putty to three parts of white sand well floated. Cellar ceiling to have but one out. 



Do all patching of plaster work required after other mechanics have finished, repairing all 

 cracks and broken places, and leave the plastering in a fir.-t-tla condition. ^ 



Wainscot the two bathrooms and toilet room on second floor 4' high with moulded cap and 

 base of Keen's Cement as follows 



First coat: Gauge one- bag cement to two pails lime putty, ten pails sand. l'>e |>U-nt\ of 

 hair. Thoroughly scratch ami let dry be-fore applying next coat. 



Second coat: Gauge one bag cement to two pails putty and fifteen pails sand. 



Finish coat: Gauge one bag cement and one pail lime putty. 



First run ba^e and cap mouldings then finish space between same as ordinary plash ring, 

 using proportions a-* at>\e. 



Whitewashing. Whitewash all stonework visible in the cellar with two good coats, using 

 Rockland lime ami plaster of Paris. 



CARPENTRY 



Timber. All timber, except where otherwise particularly shown or sped I led, to be of spruce. 

 All to be sound, well seasoned, and free from imperfections impairing its durability or strength, 

 and is to be set with the crowning edge up. All timber to be of the sizes shown on the framing 

 plans. 



Framing. The building is to be framed, braced and pinned in the best and strongest 

 manner, perfectly true and plumb, and in accordance with the framing drawings. All framing 

 must be kept 2" from the outside of the chimneys, and in no case will the timbers be allowed to 

 rest on the chimneys. The sills are to be halved and pinned with hardwood pins. The girts arc- 

 to be mortised and tenoned into the posts and pinned with hardwood pins. Window and door 

 studs to be mortised to sills and girts. Common studs to be spiked. First-floor beams to be notched 

 and mortised to sills. Second and third floor beams to be sized and nailed to girts and partition 

 caps, spiking the beams strongly together wherever possible to form a tie across the building. 



Bridge all floor beams with one row \" \ $" cross-bridijing as ^hc.wn, properly cut in and 

 nailed at each end with two 8d. nails. 



Set the partitions as shown on the plans with 2" \ 4" spruce studs, set i(f on centres, 

 straight and plumb. Partitions directly over walls, girders or partition plates below are to be run 



