Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 132
rolls stated. of the required widths, and is laid with great facility. The surface to receive melted asphalt should be 5. Ground air, particularly when very moist, is most carefully levelled off as smoothly as possible with mortar to economise materials, and where bricks with frogs in dangerous to… … shows a house situated apparently in a most delightful position looking down on to a stream. The foundations of the house are formed on good gravel with a subsoil of impervious clay. The river is subject to flood, the level rising as shown. The result of this is that the air contained in the gravel…
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