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the outside edge is 8 ft. (see fig. 65), made up of 18 in. of border (a), 

 with a slate edging (b) 1 in. thick, 5 ft. 9 in. of tesseUated pavement (c) 

 of hard tiles in simple pattern bedded on concrete, and finished off with 

 8 in. of stone curb (d) outside. 



The total height of any particular verandah must be governed by the 

 height of the windoAVS, but as a rough guide, the extreme height should 

 be about one foot above the windows of the ground-floor rooms. In my 

 own case the total height is 9 ft. 7 in., the last seven inches representing 

 the plate e resting on the iron bracket f. These iron brackets, of which 

 the details are shown on fig. 66, are let into the wall and set in cement 



Fig. 65. — Vertical Section of Vekaxd-ih. Fig. 66. — Detail of Bracket. 



at convenient distances, according to the contour of the house, but at 

 about six feet apart, and on them rests the plate e, which forms the 

 back of the whole framework of the roof of the verandah. It will be 

 noticed that this bracket keeps the plate e from coming back flat against 

 the house, and leaves an open air-space of four inches wide for creepers 

 to pass through, and for the heated air lying close under the glass to 

 escape by. The brackets are made of flat wrought iron | in. thick and 

 IJ inch wide, and consist of a horizontal main piece about one foot long, 

 the last three inches being split and turned out opposite ways to give a 

 good hold in the wall. They should project altogether 6^ inches from the 

 flat of the house, so as to leave the 4-inch space clear. An upright piece 

 of the same iron is riveted into the last mentioned at the width of the 

 plate — i.e. at 2^ inches from the front, to which the plate e is bolted 



