Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 213
r of which will be level, and the slope will start several feet awayfrom the platform. If the floor is framed in this way it means that there will haveto be a large number of posts in the space immediately beneath thefloor, so many in fact as to make it practically impossible to make 167 156… … m PI Fig. 221. Framing Plan for Bowled Floor of Longer Type than Fig. 220 the space below would also appear in rings parallel to each otherand only a comparatively small distance apart. It is not possibleto do away with absolutely all of these posts except as explained 168 CARPENTRY 157 above, by…
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