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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... the plasterer should use both the lengths alluded to, and in nailing them up, should so dispose them, that the joints be as much broken as possible, that they may have the stronger key or tie, and thereby strengthen the plastering with which they are to be covered. The thinnest laths are used in partitions, and the strongest for ceilings.-v Laths are also distinguished into heart and sap laths: the former should always be used in plain tiling; the latter, which are of inferior quality, are most frequently used by the plasterer. Laths should be as evenly split as possible. Those that are very crooked should not be used, or the crooked part should be cut out; and such as have a short concavity on the one side, and a convexity on the other, not very prominent, should be placed with the concave sides outwards. The following is the method of rending or splitting laths. The lath-cleavers having cut their timber into the required lengths, cleave each piece with wedges, into eight, twelve, or sixteen pieces, according to the scantling of the timber, called bolts; and then, with dowl-axes, in the direction of the felt-grain, termed felting, into sizes for the breadth of the laths; and, lastly, with the chit, clear them into thicknesses by the quarter grain. Having nailed the laths in their appropriate order, the plasterer's next business is to cover them with plaster, the most simple and common operation of which, is laying; 'that is, spreading a single coat of lime and hair over the whole celling, or partition; carefully observing to keep it smooth and even in every direction. This is the cheapest kind of plastering. Pricking up is performed in the same manner as the foregoing; but is only a preliminary to a more perfect kind of work. After the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230191621
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230191623
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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