56 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



the concrete is set, the surface should be floated over with a 

 mixture of clean sharp sand and cement in equal proportions, 

 and levelled, with a straight-edge, to the thickness of about 

 \ of an inch, the bricks being thoroughly saturated with water 

 and laid in this state, allowance being made for embedding 

 them in the cement. 



Laying. The Author has before referred to the necessity of care in 



producing a uniform level, and regulating the joints, especially 

 of grooved and chamfered paviors ; and this can only be done 

 by separately adjusting them with a small trowel to a line 

 stretched along the proposed finished surface of the paving. 

 When the bricks are set, a mixture of pure cement, of about 

 the consistency of cream, should be spread over the pavement 

 and swept backwards and forwards with a broom, well into the 

 joints, being cleaned off at once with sawdust before it has 

 time to harden on the floor. 



Composite Stewart's metallic paving, and Wilkinson's, of Newcastle, are 



paving. practically of the same value as a paving, their chief ingredient 



being Portland cement, laid on 6 inches of cement concrete, 

 or on a layer of 6 or 9 inches of clean broken bricks. Roughed 

 with semi-circular grooves they form a good flooring, and 

 without the grooves, are particularly suitable for corn stores 

 and coach-houses. When used for a stable, as shown on Plate 6 

 and Plate 14 (Fig. 4), the grooves can be deepened to their 

 outfall after the floor is laid and set ; this can also be done when 

 clinkers are used, and although it adds to the cost, the surface 

 of the floor in this case can be made almost level, its fall being 

 divided with the grooves. Paving of this description should 

 be laid in two thicknesses, or it cracks and peels off, and if 

 laid on broken bricks must have an average thickness of 

 3J inches, to resist the effect of the constant stamping of the 

 horses. If properly laid it is very durable, hardens with age, 

 and wears with a sandy surface. 



Granite cubes. Jersey or Welsh granite cubes, as used in random paving for 

 yards, are equal to a paving of bricks, unless they are adaman- 



