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of the room interfere with the placing of fur- 

 niture, and such chambers are far more uncom- 

 fortable in warm weather than are those in two- 

 story houses. It will be seen that the collar- 

 beam, C, must be placed so far above the foot 

 of the rafters in order to get a fair height of ceil- 



Eig. 69. Outline of a story-and-a-half house. 



ing, that it has little binding power, and that the 

 building cannot be tied together at the plates 

 in the center, since the tie would interfere with 

 the door in the cross wall. It will also be seen 

 that the second- story joists are so far below the 

 plates that their power to hold the building 

 together is small. Many of the one- and- a- half- 



