34 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



Tuck point 

 ing. 



Colouring 

 brickwork. 



both of which can be washed without injury to the surface, and 

 are much less expensive than paint for inside work. The 

 Duresco will cover, in two coats, from 200 to 300 square yards, 

 and for outside surfaces (such, for instance, as the dado, shown 

 on Plate 42) from 100 to 200 square yards. 

 Pointing. The best description of pointing for all stable buildings is 



" a neat struck and ruled joint " for the outside work. Tne 

 internal walls, when prepared for whitewash only, to be finished 

 with what is called " a neat struck and fair joint," the walls 

 being well cleaned down and stopped. 



Tuck pointing for external work is not durable, and it is 

 better to confine this description of pointing to the arches of 

 doors and windows, and the decorative parts of cornices, where 

 coloured bricks are used, to quoins, &c., and where it can be 

 executed in putty. 



The custom of colouring brickwork has become objectionably 

 frequent, and is generally done to hide the inferior quality of 

 the bricks, or to conceal defects in the work ; it has also an evil 

 effect on the lime used in the pointing. 

 Wells. A great deal of importance is necessarily attached to the 



water supply of stables, which, if not supplied by a company, 

 is usually drawn from a well. There are often circumstances 

 in which it can be obtained from a reasonable depth, and free 

 from impregnation ; such an opportunity presented itself to the 

 author at Ponder's End. 

 Well at The water for these stables was drawn from a stratum of 



Ponder s End. gj-g^yel resting on the London clay. The well, which was situ- 

 ated between the New River and the River Lea, yielding a 

 constant and liberal supply of pure water (which had been well 

 filtered by its passage through 10 feet of gravel and sand), was 

 lined with rock concrete tubes. These tubes, shown on 

 Fig. 13, are silicated by the Victoria Stone Company's process, 

 are made of a dense cement concrete, and have been for many 

 years in use in the United States. They are manufactured by 

 Messrs. Sharp, Jones, & Co., for sewers from 12 to 36 inches in 



