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Popular Science Monthly 



Knockdown Walls to Make a 

 Portable Summer House 



SUCH a popular demand has been 

 created for knock-down building ma- 

 terial for furniture, boats and the like, 

 that some manufacturers are now furnish- 

 ing "ready-made" houses, shipped in pieces, 

 cut to lengths and marked so that a handy- 

 man can set one up or build it for a perma- 

 nent home. The illustrations show such a 

 house. It is not really a "ready-made" 



given in the plans. The siding and 

 roofing material are also distinctive fea- 

 tures of this house. The siding and roofing 

 boards used are the small narrow kind. 

 They are made to lap in the usual manner 

 and are backed with canvas, like parquet 

 flooring or the covering for a roll-top desk. 

 In making the siding or roofing, the boards 

 are attached to the canvas with the best 

 grade of cabinet glue. This form of 

 construction keeps the siding in the exact 

 areas in which they are used on the building 



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The studding, joist and sills are so constructed that they may be readily taken apart. The 

 siding is put on canvas for rolling it up like a carpet so that the whole house is readily stored 



structure, but is designed so that the parts 

 will fit together without any permanent 

 fastenings, so that the owner may move it 

 from place to place as desired. It is 

 especially adapted to the summer camper, 

 or for the person who desires to live by the 

 seashore during the hot months of the year. 



One of the features of the building con- 

 struction is that the angle-irons used are 

 permanently fastened to the wood pieces in 

 such a manner that they aid in distinguish- 

 ing the parts for their respective places. 



The size and dimensions of the parts are 



and they may be rolled up like carpet and 

 stored for the winter. 



The method of holding the siding is 

 clearly shown in the plans. It consists of 

 applying the sections and clamping their 

 ends at the corners with corner-boards, 

 using bolts with lever-nuts. A few screws 

 are put in here and there to keep the 

 boards from warping. Long dock-bolts, run 

 through each end of the sills and into the 

 ground, keep the building rigid. The door 

 and windows are of light mill stock, 

 secured by hand-bolts to their frames. 



