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pipes and taps — Rough cast — Depeter work — Facing with tiles, &c. — 

 Smithies — Dressing rings — Isolation — Division walls — Fireproof build- 

 ings — Fireproof floors — Concrete floors — Mr. Hyatt's system — Wood 

 floors — Posts for lofts — Sills — Stables on upper floors — Ventilating 

 partitions — Roofs — Lean-to roofs — Common rafters — King-post roofs 

 — Queen-post roofs — Duties of tie-beams — Provisional strength of 

 members — Loft in roof — Open roofs — North London Tramway roofs — 

 Zinc roofs — Templates — Wrought-iron roofs — Roofs at Ponder's End — 

 Slating and Tiling — Covering for walls — Washable distemper — Pointing 

 — Tuck pointing — Colouring brickwork — Wells — Well at Ponder's 

 End — Abyssinian wells — Supply of water — Closets and urinals — 

 Trough closets — Slate urinals — Inclosure walls — Inclosure fences 



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CHAPTER IV. 



DRAINAGE. 



Drainage requirements — Open surface channels — Wrought iron surface 

 gutters — Open brick channels — Channel bricks and blocks — Drainage 

 of loose boxes — Outlets of gutters — Granite open gutters — Wrought 

 iron covered surface gutters — Drainage in relation to paving — Slope of 

 stalls — Steep inclines — Underground drainage — Jointing pipes in clay 

 — Cement joints — Filling in — Velocity in pipes — Manholes — Inspection 

 pits — Ventilation — Yard gullies — Iron syphon traps — Earthenware 

 traps — Drainage of omnibus and tramway stables — Disposal of sewage 

 — Cesspools — Manure-pit with cesspool — Surface drainage — Rain water 

 — Advantage of soft water 3S-49 



CHAPTER V. 



PAVING. 



Requirements of paving — Adamantine clinkers and paviors — Grooved 

 paviors — Tebbutt's "safety brick" — Vitrified bricks — Paving with 

 stocks — Examples of paving — Herring-bone paving — Height of floor — 

 Paving without concrete — Preparing ground — Laying — Composite 

 paving — Granite cubes — Advantages of good paving — Difi"ercnce in 

 cost — Omnibus stables — Various stone pitching — Cobble stones — , 

 Wood paving — Paving of smithy 50-59 



