50 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



CHAPTER V. 



PAVING. 



Requirements of paving — Adamantine clinkers and paviors — Tebbutt's 

 "safety brick" — Vitrified bricks — Paving with stocks — Examples of 

 paving — Herring-bone paving — Height of floor — Paving without con- 

 crete- — Preparing ground — Laying — Composite paving — Granite cubes 

 — Advantages of good paving — Difference in cost — Omnibus stables 

 — Various stone pitching — Cobble stones — Wood paving — Wood 

 flooring — Paving of smithy. 



Requirements All paving should fulfil the following requirements^ viz. it 

 o pavmg. should be watertight, easily cleaned, durable, and not slipper}'. 

 These conditions maybe said to be most nearly approached by 

 the use of the adamantine or Dutch clinker, when bedded on 

 concrete. Very few of the latter, which has been in use for 

 centuries in Holland, now find their way into England, mainly 

 owing to our improved manufacture of an article equal, if 

 not superior in quality, and much less in cost. 



The adamantine clinkers of the best quality, and in most 

 general use for first-class stables, causeways, yards, and pas- 

 sages, are 6 inches long, i j inch wide, and 

 Fig. 29. 2J inches deep. Laid flat it takes 70, on 



^ X edge 120, and in herring-bone pattern 136, 



to pave a yard super, and 1000 of this 



dimension weigh 18 cwt. For stables they 



are also made with chamfered edges as shown 



in Fig. 29. A plain orange adamantine clinker may be 



obtained, well suited for coach-houses, 6 inches by ij inch 



by 2f inches deep ; of these the same number per square 



Adamantine 

 clinkers and 

 paviors. 



