Operative Masonry; Or, a Theoretical and Practical Treatise of Building; Containing a Scientific Account of Stones, Clays, Bricks, Mortars, Cements, &C.; A Description of Their Component Parts, with the Manner of Preparing and Using Them.
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Operative Masonry; Or, a Theoretical and Practical Treatise of Building; Containing a Scientific Account of Stones, Clays, Bricks, Mortars, Cements, &C.; A Description of Their Component Parts, with the Manner of Preparing and Using Them.

Operative Masonry; Or, a Theoretical and Practical Treatise of Building; Containing a Scientific Account of Stones, Clays, Bricks, Mortars, Cements, &C.; A Description of Their Component Parts, with the Manner of Preparing and Using Them.


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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. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... being dried on an iron plate or kiln, so as not to bum, thus the mortar would be discolored. When this is properly compounded, it should be put in small parcels against walls, or otherwise to mellow, as the workmen term it; reduced again to soft putty, or paste, and spread thin on the walls without any under coat, and well trowelled. A succeeding coat should be laid on, before the first is quite dry, which will prevent points of brick work appearing through it. Much depends on the workman giving sufficient labor, and trowelling it down. If this stucco, when dry, be laid over with boiling linseed oil, it will last a long time, and not be liable, when once hardened, to the accidents to which common stucco is liable. SECTION XV. Adam's Oil Cement, or Stucco, is prepared in the following manner. For the first coat, take twenty-one pounds of fine whiting, or oystershells, or any other sea-shells calcined, or plaster of Paris, or any calcareous material calcined and pounded, or any absorbent materials whatever, proper for the purpose; add white or red lead at pleasure; deducting from the other absorbent materials in proportion to the white or red lead added; to which put four quarts, beer measure, of oil; and mix them together with a grinding-mill or any levigating machine. And afterwards mix, and beat up the same well with twenty-eight pounds, beer measure, of any sand or gravel, or of both, mixed and sifted, or of marble or stone pounded, or of brick dust, or of any kind of metallic, or mineral powders, or of any solid material whatever, fit for the purpose. For the second coat, take sixteen pounds and a half of superfine whiting, or oyster-shells, or any sea-shells calcined, Sie., as for the first coat; add sixteen pounds and a half of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235750373
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123575037X
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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