January, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
51 
sure pipe and the overflow to some con¬ 
venient waste; but a better way is to keep 
all moisture outside of the cellar by filling 
in back of the cellar walls and under the 
concrete of the cellar bottom with broken 
rock and through this broken rock run one 
or two lines of small tile pipe to an outside 
frost proof pit in which the cellar drainer 
may be located. 
The outside plumbing depends upon the 
size of the lawn, location of stable or 
garage, etc. For small lawns an attach¬ 
ment with stop and drain cock inside the 
frost line in cellar, so as to be closed off 
in winter, is sufficient; if the lawn is large 
there should be one or more lawn hydrants. 
The modern garage requires special at¬ 
tention in the matter of plumbing. The 
floor should slope gradually to a common 
point in the centre, side or corner where 
in a slight depression it should empty into 
a bell trap from which a four-inch pipe 
should lead to a settling basin and grease 
trap, the walls and bottom of which should 
be thoroughly covered both inside and out¬ 
side with portland cement. The accumula¬ 
tion of oil, grease and dirt may be removed 
from this trap whenever there is enough 
of either to necessitate taking it out. This 
catch basin is used to prevent the grease 
and dirt from stopping up the waste pipe 
and because it accomplishes just that desir¬ 
able end it is advisable to run the waste 
from the sink separately into this grease 
trap, or if too far, make one near the 
kitchen. 
If you feel that you must economize in 
the plumbing let the cutting be done in 
the number of fixtures or in the quality 
of the fixtures, but never in the waste and 
vent piping. On it depends sanitation. 
Also do not install inferior valves and 
tanks, for that would mean continuous 
trouble and expense. 
Syphon principle shown by onion stem 
Do not permit any iron or steel to come 
in contact with marble. If there is enough 
moisture about to cause the rusting of a 
nail head, against which a piece of marble 
is resting, the rust will in time penetrate 
through to the other side of the slab, even 
though it be an inch or two thick. This 
is what causes the rust colored spots often 
seen in marble slabs, not infrequently they 
come from wrought iron basin clamps 
which were used instead of brass ones. 
Do not change your mind at the last 
moment and put in some misfit (does not 
fit the roughing in) fixture such as the 
basin at the bottom of page 38, where the 
pipes have been offset outside the tiling to 
match a change and thus an otherwise 
beautiful, sanitary bathroom has been dis¬ 
figured. 
Do not install any fixture which creates 
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