The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 242
r less prevented from reaching the floors. But of all precautions to prevent damp entering by the face of Ihe wall,Ihe best remedy is have an area, which, by keeping the soil at a distance,preclude its fatal ertijcts on the wall. There areas may be three or luorefeet wide, and may serve as a… … are called blind areas, with convex walls against the earth, the points ofcontact with the outer wall of the house being as small as possible, lodiminish the possibility of the communication of damp. Care must be taken to leave openings at A A A (fig. 2), 90 as to raainlain a draft or cireolation…
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