The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 242
y oil colors before mixing the sand. GuTTEES AT THE EAVES. For all chcapcottages, barns, and outbuildings withprojecting roofs, much the simplest andbest gutter is formed by introducing apiece of copper, tin, or galvanized iron,«, Fig. 84, in the roof, directly over theperpendicular line of the… … 190 COUNTRY HOUSES. than the other, bo as to aftord a sufficient descent in its lengthto cany oft the water freely. It is not only the simplest andcheapest mode of forming a gutter, but it also pennits the leaderwater-pipe, c, to be carried do\m in a straight line, withoutany of those awlcward…
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