A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 65
ce of the wall, will drip off,instead of running into the joints. 54 MASONRY. 105. The space between the outside of the foundation and the bank of the excavationshould be filled in with gravel orsand (preferably the former), wellpacked down. Thus in Fig. 38,a shows the space between thefoundation… … FOUNDATION >VAL,L,S PARTLY ON ROCK. 106. A very faulty construction sometimes met with isthat in which a portion of a ledge of rock projects into thefoundation wall, and thefoundation is built partlyon the rock and partly onthe footing course. This is shown in Fig. 39, a beingthe footing course;…
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