The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1873)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 252
Fig. 225. stnicted double, as at Fig. 225 ; and sometimes framed, as at FRAMING. 237 … Fig. 226; but these methods are seldom practised, inasmuchas either of these require more timber than the single floor.Where lathing and plastering is attached to the floor-beams tcform a ceiling below, the springing of the beams, by custo-mary use, is liable to crack the plastering. To obviate…
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