Inside Out Library · Explore

The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 169

An illustration from The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry, 1852, leaf 169
upper edge,are closed by short pieces of boards, which rest on cleets nailedto the beam along its whole length. This forms a floor uponwhich mortar is laid to the depth of about 2 inches, leaving butabout half an inch from its upper surface to the under side of thefloor-plank. 272.—Double floors. A… … Fig. 203. are the principal support, and of course reach from wall to wall.The bridging-joists, which support the floor-plank, are laid uponthe binding-joists, to which they are nailed; sometimes they arenotched into the binding-joists, but they are sufliciently firmwhen well nailed. The…

Carpentry · Architecture

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry

More like this