The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 380
different pieces together; c e are the slates; d d the nifters; and ethe gutter beam. The fall requisite to carry off the water is foundto be from a half to tliree quarters of an inch in the yard, andthis necessarily occasions the plane of the roof to rise towards thecentre of the building, as… … requires in slating or tiling is, to bring the upper edge of the lowercourse of tiles to a level, as indicated in the longitudinal sectiontlirough the gutter, Fig. 118; in which g is the gutter, A the lowercourse of tiles, i the gutter beam, and k hollow posts for supporiingthe gutter beam, and…
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