Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 154
Modern Buildings 136 be thoroughly soaked in water, to ensure the proper oakum and finally pointed, so that should the mortar adhesion of the two materials. at the outer surface become disintegrated and so The Mortar Joints are usually about \ inch wide, form a lodgment for water this cannot… … where its colour adds a pleasing relief to the grimy blocks, or upon the size of the blocks, which usually surroundings, while its property of reflecting light has amounts to the same thing. A weather-struck joint caused it to be used considerably for the facings of is usually employed, as it…
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