ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A VERANDAH. 



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top and bottom. The whole of this is further supported by a bracket 

 piece of f inch, round wrought iron, riveted into the horizontal main- 

 piece, and firmly screwed into a wood block cemented into the wall. A 

 great deal of the strength of the whole building depends on the con- 

 struction and firm fixing of these brackets. 



The next point to consider is the front supports of the roof. These, 

 as w^ill be seen in figs. 67 and 68, are mostly in the form of lattice work, 

 the main frame of which is made of wood 2 inches wide by 2J inches 

 deep, rabbited in the centre to ^ inch, in which is fitted the lattice work, 

 of J inch by 1 inch stuff, as shown in fig. 67 ; the total width of these 

 uprights is 15 inches. It will be noticed that the lower three feet con- 

 sists of two divisions with simple diagonal crossbits IJ inch square. 

 These uprights stand on stone blocks 6 inches high, 4 inches wide, and 

 164 inches long, the top edge being bevelled all round. The front plate, 

 resting on the top of these supports, is the same size as the back plate — 

 viz. 7 in. x 2i in., into which the rafters are mortised at 11^ inches from 



Fig. 67. — OrxLinE of Front Woodwork. 



edge to edge. In my own case, in order to lighten the appearance, I have 

 introduced one or two plain pillars of wood four inches square, instead of 

 always repeating the lattice ones, where from the span of the arches the 

 lattice supports would have come too close together. The spacing and 

 span of the arches must always depend on the look-out required from the 

 windows, the centres of the large arches or springs being kept opposite 

 the centres of the principal windows. 



The roof, as already mentioned, is made of rafters 11^ in. apart and 

 2 in. wide by 3J deep ; the heavy appearance of this depth is relieved 

 by the lower part being moulded. The whole is glazed with rolled glass, 

 each sheet being 1 ft. wide, and the whole length of the rafters from 

 back to front to avoid drip at joints. 



In order to guard against the possibility of rain getting through on to 

 the windows of the house, it might be as well to let a strip of sheet zinc 

 or lead into the wall exactly over the windows to cover the 4 in. air- 

 space, imless the creepers are sufficiently thick, as in my own case, to 

 make this unnecessary. 



