Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 56
titions. Quite recently the writernoted for the second time only, in a somewhatwide experience of construction, a very cuiiousand mistaken way of putting braces in a parti-tion. The carpenter had placed the head andsill in position, and then cut and nailed up allthe studs in position before the… … yvrong nay fii^hr maxf Fig. 17. Bracing a Partition. nearly so effective as if they had been fitted infirst in one piece, and the studs cut in after, asshown in the right-hand sketch in Fig. 17. By putting the braces in first, not only istheir full strength obtained, but the frame ofthe partition…
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