The American house-carpenter : a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs : together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1849)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 182
tends to injure the stability of the plaster- ing ; for, as the strength of the plastering depends, in a great mea- sure, upon its clinch, formed by pressing the mortar through the space between the laths, the narrower the surface, therefore, upon which the laths are nailed, the less will be the… … 283. — When the principal timbers of a partition require to be large for the purpose of greater strength, it is a good plan to omit the upright filling-in pieces, and in their stead, to place a few hori- zontal pieces ; in order, upon these and the principal timbers, to nail upright battens at the…
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