A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 448
er off as soon as it §9 CARPENTRY. 113 falls. For the same reason the boards of the floor arc laidacross the veranda, as shown, as the water would otherwiselodge in the joints and soon rot out the material. In order to run the floor boards in this direction, it isnecessary to provide means of… … Fig. 70. pier a girder b extends to the foundation wall of the house,where a stone templet g is built in to receive it; or, wherethe veranda is narrow, the girder simply rests on the brick-work without any templet. The veranda floor joists arethen framed into the girder, as shown at //, and…
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