The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 286
, a second may bemade. 254.—The String of a Stairs. —The space required fortimber and plastering under the steps is about 5 inches forordinary stairs, or 6 inches if furred ; set a gauge, there-fore, at 5 or 6 inches, as the case requires, and run it on thelower edge of the plank, Tis ab {Fig.… … 248 STAIRS. and y, until the required number of risers shall be laid down.To insure accuracy, it is well to ascertain the theoreticalraking length of the pitch-board by computation, as in noteto Art. 536, by getting the square root of the sum of thesquares of the rise and run, and using this by…
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