Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 136
e latter being buttressed by means of cross sleeper walls or tied by means of iron rods to the main wall. The construction of hearths in upper wooden floors is shown in Fig. 267, Chapter XVIII. Hearths may be of stone, brick, tile, or any other incombustible material. When of stone they are usually… … great care must be taken to prevent lime mortar coming in contact with them, or in fact with any marble work, as it causes dirty brown stains ; for which reason all the built-in parts of marble work are coated with a slip of plaster of Paris. Foundations of Chimneys. — The London Building Act says…
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