 | Medicine, Eclectic - 1853 - 614 pages
...Let the same be extended into your walls, so as to cut off the walls of your house with water proof cement, from all communication with the moisture of...to your fancy. Your lower floor will be perfectly dry—impenetrable to moisture, and to vermin ; not a single animal can get a lodging in your lower... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - Food - 1865 - 500 pages
...earth, it would bo better. A proper foundation being prepared, make your first floor by a pavenflhit of brick, laid in hydraulic cement, upon the surface...walls of your house with water-proof cement, from all (••>rimnmic,.ition with tho moisture of the surrounding earth. Upon this foundation build a'Tording... | |
 | 1855 - 1102 pages
...Let the same be extended into your walls, so as to cut off the walls of your house with water proof cement, from all communication with the moisture of the surrounding earth. Upon tins foundation, build according to your fancy. Your lower floor will be perfectly dry — impenetrable... | |
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... as the surrounding soil. If filled up with any clean material, a few inches above the surrounding 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... 