The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 262
h some free-dom and force. As a protection against fire, where a hose is to be used, this extraheight should be considerable (say two or three times the height of the house), aswater ejected from the nozzle of a hose depends for its carrying power on theamount of pressure back of it. In other… … 238 The Country House f. its water to an effective height. It is not desirable to use water from any smallstorage vessel for drinking purposes, as it becomes stale and often tastes of thevessel; such water is only fit for general household use. The reservoir, as we understand it in the ordinary use…
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