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The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house (1871)

Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806-1871 · London, J. C. Hotten · leaf 454

An illustration from The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house, 1871, leaf 454 — any kindof domestic chimney-flue is not a very difficult opera-tion. It is only necessary to take out the brickworkin front of a flue of a height of 4 to 5 feet, and thenintroduce the iron flue, gathering up the brickworkbeneath it; the section, fig. 25, supposes the iron fluesto be in an external… … Fig- -5-—Section of the flue iniltst, THE FIREPLACE. 449 draught of air in the chimney might expend itself inthe soot flue, and the smoke having passed the spraycoukl not return. The spray of water should be equalto the whole width of the flue, and proportioned instrength to the work it has to do ;…

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