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 171
. Thus,if the bearing is 6 feet, the depth will be 3 inches ; bearing 8feet, depth 4 inches, (fcc. 276.—Framed floors. When a good ceiling is required, andthe distance of bearing is great, the binding-joists, instead ofreaching from wall to wall, are framed into girders. These areheavy timbers, as… … Fig. 204. ing-joists in these, are the same as those in double floors justdescribed. The distinctive feature of this kind of floor is thegirder. 277.—Girders should be made as deep as the timber will allow :if their being increased in size should reduce the height of a storya few inches, it would…
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