54 STABLE BUILDING ANDISTABLE FITTING. 



Paving with 

 " stocks." 



Examples of 

 paving. 



Hamblet, underwent a test by Mr. D. Kirkaldy, and were found 

 to offer a resistance to crushing of from 8,582 to 10,185 lbs. 

 per square inch ; they are, therefore, extremely hard and 

 durable 3 when broken they should be very dark in section, but 

 for first-class stables their sombre colour is somewhat against 

 them. An equally hard brick of a lighter colour would be 

 extensively used. 



Ordinary stock bricks are frequently used for paving, but 

 they are too soft for the purpose ; they wear in uneven hollows, 

 and absorb and retain moisture, rendering the stable damp and 

 unhealthy. If used, they should be carefully selected, laid to 

 break joint, and a grouting composed of two parts of washed 

 sand and one of Portland cement, made to about the consistency 

 of cream, should be well worked into the joints. 36 flat, and 52 

 on edge, will pave i yard super; 450 weigh one ton. 



Several methods of paving in brick, which may be either plain 

 or grooved, are illustrated on Plate 13. The loose boxes, 

 A, B, C, and D, are drained by a central syphon trap (Fig. 24), 

 to which the pavement, on each side, converges ; B having a 

 wrought-iron covered gutter, with a prolonged branch to carry 

 off the waste from the water-trough, which, in this instance, as 

 also in those of the stalls, a and d, form part of the mangers. 

 These two stalls are paved severally with transverse and diagonal 

 courses ; the former having a wrought-iron covered gutter, and 

 the latter, the open surface channel of wrought iron described 



