Building by a builder; practical and economical considerations for the man about to build (1914)
Howes, Benjamin A · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 142
arrangement of its water and air pumps andsafety valves that it is just about fool-proof. Thespecial advantage of the underground storage isthat if it blows up or springs a-leak the waterwont run down through the house, and beingunderground it wont freeze. But it is well to bearin mind that a… … FROM THE GROUND UP 121 that hydraulic rams and gasoline engines andseptic tanks have heretofore possessed for youonly a remote and shuddering interest; but afteryou have passed some hours tramping ankle-deepin mud with several superior persons, trying tolocate these mysteries, you will wish that…
Building · Dwellings
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