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Good Floors 
(Continued from page 19) 
inally fastened together with nails, the benefits of having it are many 
Finally, the completed hardwood and obvious. Furthermore it is a 
floor must be cross-planed, scraped practical necessity that some sort of 
and diligently sandpapered to a a floor be laid upon which workmen 
smooth and uniform surface. It can perform their various tasks dur- 
should then be immediately turned ing the construction of the building, 
over to the painter to receive its pro- Herein lies the great advantage of 
tective and finishing coats of filler, a permanent sub-floor, namely, that 
oil, stain, wax, or varnish. If for the upper, or “finish” floor, need not 
any reason the latter operations are be laid until all other building 
“unavoidably delayed,” then the floors operations are completely finished, 
should be protected, meanwhile, by Only under the latter condition can a 
covering them with two layers of satisfactory floor be logically insisted 
heavy building paper; the two lay- upon. 
ers to “break joints,” and the joints The commonest and most inexpen- 
of the upper layer to be lapped and sive lumber may be used for the 
glued so as to entirely exclude dust sub-floor; the only requirements be- 
and grit. ing that it must be sound and well 
The Covered Floors seasoned, and mill-planed to a uni- 
Soft-wood flooring, when con- form width and thickness. The thick- 
cealed from view by carpeting or ness should be not less than for 
linoleum, should be square-edged, a span not exceeding 2' between 
not tongued-and-grooved. It should joists. The width of the boards 
be borne in mind that the only ob- should not exceed 6", and they 
ject of tonguing-and-grooving the should be laid diagonally across the 
edges of the upper boards of a dou- joists so as to allow of laying the 
ble floor is to provide for the con- finish-flooring on same in either di- 
cealment of the nails. There is a rection without paralleling the direc- 
somewhat prevalent opinion that “T tion of the sub-flooring. 
& G” flooring, as it is often called, 
makes a better floor than plain Deadening Sound 
square-edged boards. Such, however. Between the two layers of flooring, 
is not the case. Plain, narrow, a double thickness of waterproof 
square-edged spruce or pine flooring, building paper should be laid as a 
“backed-out” on the under side, protection to the “raw” under sur- 
nailed through the top, and laid over face of the finish flooring. Some- 
a sub-floor, answers all requirements times, however, it is desired to dead- 
for floors that are to be subsequently en a floor against the transmission 
completely covered with carpeting or of sound to the rooms below. Per- 
other wearing material. It is desir- feet insulation from sound waves can 
able that soft-wood flooring be also be accomplished only by absolutely 
“quarter - sawed.” Otherwise the severing the rigid connection be- 
boards are liable to warp or “cup tween floor and ceiling. This can be 
up,” thereby forming slight ridges done by employing two separate sets 
at the joints, which latter condition of joists; one set to carry the floor 
is not at all conducive to the wel- and one to carry the ceiling, as in¬ 
fare of the carpet or linoleum. In dicated at “A” in Sketch No. 3. This 
no case should spruce or pine floor- construction, although nearly ideal 
boards be more than 4" in width, nor for the purpose of absorbing sound 
less than in thickness. In laying waves, is highly conducive to the 
square-edged flooring for carpeted spread of fire which, once gaining 
or linoleum-covered floors, it is not access to the enclosed timbers, would 
necessary, or even advisable, that the sweep unobstructed throughout the 
endwise joints be staggered as re- floor-construction. Therefore this 
gards each individual board. Instead construction should never be tol- 
of laying one board at a time, as in erated unless the ceiling be plastered 
tongued-and-grooved flooring, it is on metal lath and a sheet of asbestos 
usual to lay several boards of even inserted between the two layers of 
length together, without nailing, then flooring. Also, all communication 
to strain this group into tight con- with the vertical air spaces of the 
tact, one with the other, by means of bearing walls should be absolutely 
flooring-clamps or wedges. Held cut off by solidly “blocking in” the 
thus, the boards are then nailed in ends of the joists over walls and 
place, the outermost board being partitions. A more common method 
nailed first. Adjacent groups, laid of partial deadening is illustrated at 
side by side, should break joints, one “B” in Sketch No. 3. This method 
with the other. The nails are driven is considerably less efficient than tin. 
through the top of the boards and other, but it is safer from fire and 
should be sunk slightly beneath the more economical. On top of the 
surface so as to allow of the boards sub-floor is laid a layer of heavy 
being planed down to an even sur- deadening felt or quilting, while on 
face. After the latter operation is top of the latter, and nailed through 
finished, the nail holes should be it into the joists, are laid the strips 
filled with putty and the floor im- that carry the finish-flooring. This 
mediately given a protective cover- method of floor construction also 
ing of lead and oil paint or other possesses other merits aside from 
suitable preservative. that of partial deadening. By using 
All floors that are to be laid on strips 1*4" in height, the resulting 
a wooden skeleton should invariably space between the two layers of floor- 
be composed of two layers; the low- ing will he sufficient to accommodate 
er layer, or “sub-floor,” being laid electric conduits, thus avoiding any 
directly on the joists, and the upper cutting of floor-joists that might 
layer, or “finish-floor,” being laid otherwise he necessary. Again, the 
over the sub-floor. The saving in convenience of laying piping on top 
cost, due to the omission of the sub- of the floor instead of on top of the 
floor is wholly insignificant, while ceiling, is evident. 
