House tt Bronxvllle, N. Y. Wm. A. Bates, architect. Cost about $7,000 



CHAPTER XVII 

 PRACTICAL HINTS 



HE diverse and scattered hints included in this chapter are such 

 as were not properly a part of any of the foregoing chapters, 

 and yet of enough importance to be included in some form or 

 other. Therefore they have been gathered together under the 

 above heading and arranged in alphabetical order, such being 

 the only systematic arrangement possible. 



Balcony. It is often found necessary in balcony construc- 

 tion to give some practical support which shall not make it necessary for the 

 brackets or other supporting motive to carry all or in fact any of the load which 

 they are supposed to. In the balloon frame this may be accomplished, where 

 the inside floor timbers run parallel to the wall from which the balcony springs, 

 by extending the balcony timbers over a ledger board within the building for 

 a certain distance necessary to give the desired support (see Fig. 55). This is 

 really, as will be seen, the cantilever principle, omitting the truss. 



"Bed and Build" The bed of a brick or stone is the lower horizontal 

 surface on which it is laid in the wall; the build is its vertical surface or 

 height. 



Bridging. Cross bridging is nailed to the top sides of the floor timbers 

 before the floor boarding is secured. This nailing of the flooring to the floor 

 timbers tends to draw up such timbers as are in any way slightly out; any 

 further correction is made by nailing the low r er ends of the cross bridging. In this 

 way deficient places may be forced into line through the truss-like agency of the 



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