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wide houses, to treat the building as a shed, and to take 

 extra care in making the roof strong and tight. 



A single house, standing by itself, is always more difficult 

 and expensive to heat and to manage than a range of houses. 

 It is, therefore, very important that houses should not only 

 be heated, so far as possible, from one central system, but 

 also that the houses should lie alongside of each other so 

 that the interior walls may answer for two houses, and that 

 one house may protect another from sweeping winds. For 



4. A broken roof on the level, 18 feet wide, with sloping 

 center bench. 



purposes of convenience in repairing the roof, and to avoid 

 injury by snow, it is better to have these parallel houses 

 separated from each other by a space or alley of two or 

 three feet ; but inasmuch as this doubles the number of 

 walls and exposes every wall to the weather, this method 

 of construction is rarely used for small houses in this 

 country. Two contiguous houses are allowed to rest upon 

 a common wall, but the gutter between the two is made 

 deep and wide so that the water may be carried off quickly, 

 and a workman may walk through it when repairing or 

 painting the roof. In the case of very large houses, how- 

 ever (say those 35 ft. or more wide and 200 ft. or more 

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