886 Lord mahon’s Method of 
The fhort pieces of common laths juft mentioned 
ought (in order to fill up the intervals between the joifts 
that fupport the floor) to be laid in the contrary direc- 
tion to the joifts, and clofe together in. a row, fo as to 
touch one another, as much as the want of ftraitnefs in 
the laths will poffibly allow, without the laths lapping 
over each other; their ends muft reft upon the fillets 
fpoken of above (§ 2.) and they ought to be well bedded 
in the rough plafter. It is not proper to ufe any nails to 
fallen down either thefe fhort pieces of laths, or thofe 
fhort pieces hereafter mentioned (§ 7.) 
§ 5. Thefe fhort pieces of laths ought then to be co- 
wered with one thick coat of the rough plafter fpoken of 
hereafter (§ 9.), which fliould be fpread all over them, 
and which fhould be brought, with a trowel, to be about 
level with the tops of the joifts, but not above them. 
This rough plafter in a day or two fhould be trowelled 
all over, clofe home to the lides of the joifts; but the 
tops of the joifts ought not to be any wife covered with 
it. 
§ 6. The method of double under-flooring is, in the 
flrft part of it, exactly the fame as the method juft de- 
fcribed. The fillets and the fhort pieces of laths are ap- 
plied in the fame manner; but the coat of rough plafter 
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