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 80
e walls iscomplete and any member out of linehas been braced or shored into properposition, the rough boarding is put on.This is usually of spruce or hemlockand should be of f stock, planed on one Portionol,old T^T VT^ Ma?sshowin8 the . overhang effected by the use of a large projecting girt side… … The Country House laid absolutely close. Rough boarding is seldom of absolutely straight edge, andif laid as it comes leaves more or less irregular joints. In the old work of the braced frame the boarding was laid horizontally. Thisis a good method, and saves both time and labour. The nature of the…
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