Fire insurance and how to build; combining also a guide to insurance agents respecting fire prevention and extinction, special features of manufacturi (1903)
Moore, Francis C. (Francis Cruger), 1842- · New York, The Baker & Taylor Company · leaf 501
should be added to the insurancerate for omission of this precaution. The cost per 100running feet of three story wall would be less than $100,and this would be saved in time in the insurance rate, tosay nothing of life. The building law of New York requires that in all furredwalls the course of… … FIRE STOPS IN FLOORS AND PARTITIONS. A cheap fire stop could be constructed of ordinary slushmortar, filled in between the studs solidly to the top of themop-boards. (Lime mortar will not rot wood, in thisrespect being unlike cement or plaster of Paris, whichshould not be in contact with wood.)…
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