 | Daniel Harrison Jacques - Architecture, Domestic - 1868 - 184 pages
...walls, so as to cat off the walls of your honse with water-proof cement from all communieation wiih the moisture of the surrounding earth. Upon this foundation...to your fancy. Your lower floor will be perfectly dry—impenetrable to moisture and to vermin ; not a single animal cun get a lodgment in your lower... | |
 | E. L. T. Harrison, W. S. Godby - 1868 - 644 pages
...high as the surrounding soil. If filled up with any clean material a few inches above the eurronnding earth, it would be better. A proper foundation being...moisture and to vermin; not a single' animal can get a lodgment in your story. By adopting this plan, your house will be dry and cleanly; the atmosphere of... | |
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If filled up with any clean material a few inches above the eurronnding earth, it would be better. A proper foundation being prepared, make your first floor by a pavement of brick, laid in hydraulic cement upon the surface of the ground. Let the same... 