Building By a Builder Practical And Economical Considerations for the Man About
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'Keen- forced concrete throughout, except for tile par- titions; or local stone; or outside walls of eight inches of brick (two bricks thick) furred with two-inch terra-cotta furring blocks; or four inches of brick laid and bonded integrally with six-inch- thick terra-cotta building blocks used both for air spaces and for strength. With terra-cotta tile partitions and reenforced concrete floors with " fillers" of terra-cotta tile ("combination floors"), and asbestos shingle or slate roof, his $...9, 000 would give him a two-story-and-a-half house in any of these materials of about seven hundred and twenty feet ground area say, twenty-four by thirty feet, or twenty by thirty- six. This estimate would cover every scrap of household equipment that is fastened in place, together with decoration. 64 BUILDING: BY A BUILDER "That's not very large, is it?" was Carson's rather dismayed comment. "Well, then there's exterior plaster on hollow tile or metal lath, called stucco, you know, " went on the architect.
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