December, 1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



411 



FIFTY SUGGESTIONS FOR 

 THE HOUSE 



22. The Size of Rooms 



The point of greatest hygienic importance 

 is, not how many rooms a person has, but how 

 much room. A small room may be over- 

 crowded with a single person in it, while a 

 large room is not overcrowded with four to six 

 persons in it. The question of the dimensions 

 of the room is of the greatest importance. 

 The minimum amount of cubic space allow- 

 able for sleeping- rooms per adult person is 10 

 cubic meters, though a room of 25 cubic meters 

 is far more desirable. It is evident that a 

 room 3 meters high is more easily ventilated 

 than one that is 10 meters high with the same 

 amount of air space. Sleeping-rooms should 

 be at least 2.75 meters high, though a height 

 much in excess of 3 meters is not desirable. 

 A room less than 2 meters in height is not suit- 

 able for a sleeping-room. The floor space of 

 a sleeping-room should be at least 3 square 

 meters. The living-rooms of a house should 

 possess a cubic space of at least 12 cubic meters 

 for each occupant, though an allowance of 30 

 cubic meters is preferable. — Dr. D. H. 

 Burgey. 



23. Ventilating the Billiard-room 



A billiard-room is very often difficult to 

 ventilate because of the large amount of glass 

 in the lantern which is necessary for lighting 

 the table, and the enormous quantity of gas 

 which is necessary for lighting. The first 

 thing which should be done, wherever possible, 

 is to substitute electricity for gas; this will 

 simplify matters considerably. In order to 

 prevent a down draught from the cold air 

 round the glass, a "lay-light," or horizontal 

 glass ceiling, may be placed below the lantern, 

 and the space thus formed warmed by a coil 

 of hot-water pipes, so as to rouse an up cur- 

 rent, which can be taken through an ordinary 

 extract ventilator. Fresh air should, of course, 

 be made to enter by means of ventilating radia- 

 tors from, if possible, the four corners of the 

 room. If hot- water heating is not desired a 

 ventilating grate may be used, the lay-light 

 made air-tight, several Sheringham inlets placed 

 in the walls, and the extract obtained by a 

 special foul-air flue in the chimney-breast, with 

 possibly a " pilot-light," or gas jet, to acceler- 

 ate the current. — B. F. and H. P. Fletcher. 



24. Concrete 



Concrete should be composed of pure 

 clean water, broken stones, or ballast or clean 

 pit gravel, with such a proportion of sharp 

 sand as will fill the voids between the stones or 

 gravel ; and this latter should not be larger 

 than such as will pass through a ring one and 

 three-quarter inches in diameter. The pro- 

 portion should never be less for Portland 

 cement than one to six parts of stones and 

 sand combined, and the concrete should be 

 thrown into position steadily and as evenly as 

 possible and tamped down in layers not more 

 than twelve inches thick. The concrete for 

 floors, pavements, roof-gardens, or roofs 

 should be made in the proportion of one part 

 Portland cement, four parts of broken brick, 

 slag or other porous aggregate, and should be 

 small enough to pass through a three-quarter 

 inch ring; but no sand should be used. Fine 

 ashes from the smith's forge make the best 

 material for this purpose, but it should not ex- 

 ceed in bulk one-third of the whole mass. 

 The concrete should be laid in position gradu- 

 ally and continually until the whole work is 

 done, and should be tamped concurrently as 

 laid in place. — Fred T. Hodgson. 



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