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carried up without any abrupt angles and well pargeted throughout ; 

 rubbed stone hearths to be fixed in all fireplaces, each to be one 

 foot longer than their respective openings ; all window sills to be 

 laid with blue plinth bricks. The whole of the brickwork to be 

 done in the manner of Flemish bond, to be completely laid in, 

 and entirely flushed up with mortar at every course ; no four 

 courses of the work are to rise more than one inch beyond the 

 thickness of the bricks and there shall be no appreciable difference 

 between the soundness and uniformity of surface between the out- 

 side and that of the inside work, except where the work is to be 

 plastered, when the joints may be left rough to insure a better key 

 for the plaster. A 4 inch sanitary pipe drain is to be carried from 

 the lowest point of outlet from the house, receiving from a surface 

 blue brick channel from the scullery the slops, communicating 

 with a well-built securely trapped cesspool 18 x 18 in. and 2 feet 

 deep. All the rooms on the ground floor to be filled in to the depth 

 of one foot with well prepared lime concrete, on which must be 

 laid 6 inch quarries bedded in lias lime mortar. Slate chimney 

 pieces to be fixed in living room ; stone chimney-piece to be fixed 

 in scullery. 



"Joiner. "Roof: principal tie-beams to be 9 x 3, backs 7x3, 

 secured by |- round iron rod through centre of tie-beam, passing 

 through an iron plate, which clips the backs at the apex ; purlines, 

 7 inches x 3 inches ; wall plates, 4| inches x 3 inches ; ridge 5| x 

 Ij inches; spars 2j inches x 3 inches, not more than 16 inches 

 from centre to centre. Rafters to project 1 foot 2 inches, with facia 

 boards. Barge boards to be 11 inches by 1 inch, with 2 inch 

 moulding. Chamber floors to be made of 7 inches x 2^ inches, white 

 deal battens, grooved and tongued with l|-inch hoop-iron, the ends 

 resting on battens built into the walls, and supported in the centre by a 

 trussed beam. The floors are beaded in the under side, thus saving 

 the expense of a plaster ceiling. Ceiling-joists to bedrooms, 3x2 

 inches. Partitions, 2x4 inches, framed and braced. Stairs 

 to be Ij inches deal, steps and risers on strong carriages, blocked 

 and bracketed, with Ij plain deal wallstring outside. A 2-inch 

 deal moulded hand-rail, to be 2^-inch wide, sunk for 1-inch square- 

 bar uprights. Outside doors to be 1^-inch ledged, grooved and 

 tongued ; all inside doors to be square framed, deal beaded out and 

 i square. A 7-inch deal skirting to be planked round kitchen and 

 parlour windows. 



