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Brackeiiiig and cradling is usually, for coniices, coves, &c.,
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ineli thick; for enta-
blatures, circular sotites, and waggon-headed ceilings,
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to 2 inches thick.
All barers Id lie hxed and provided as shall be necessary.
Weather hoardiiig, ^-inch or 6 boards to a 3-inch yellow deal, wrought or wrought
and beidrd; or 1-inch or 4 boards to a 3-inch deal. Louvre or Lvffer
boarding
iif 1-inch deal, wrought two sides and splayed.
Warehouse 2)os(s must be described with their relation to the weight they are to carry
(see Beams and Pillars, 1635, et seq.), the caps 3 feet long, with splayed ends,
so that the posts may not press into the girders; and iron dowels should pass
through the girders to catch the bases of the posts in the floor above. Fir story
posts are usually about 9 inches square.
Water trunks are made from 4 to 6 inches or more squHre, of J-inch to l^^-inch
deal; to be pitched and fixed complete, with hopper heads and shoes, wall hooks<,
hold-fasts, &c.
Park paling is of the following varieties: 4-feet oak cUft pales, 2 arris rails and oak
posts; 6-feet oak cleft pales, &c. ; and 6 feet oak cleft pales, 3 arris rails and oak
posts. Described oak plank at the bottom, and oak capping at top, if required.
Floors.
|-inch white (or yellow) deal, rough, wiih edges shot. 1
These may be of battens
|-inch white (or yellow) deal, wrought, and laid folding./ for better floors,
l-inch white (or yellow) deal, rough, with edges shot.
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Akn f I 'it-
1-incli //(' (or yellow) deal, wrought, and laid folding.
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1-iuch white de\\\, wrought, and laid straight joint and splayed headings.
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1 j-inch white (or yellow) dt-al, rough, with edges shot. 1
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inch white (or yellow) deal, wrought, and laid folding.
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l|-inch !<'^^e (or yellow) deal, wrought, straight joint, anil splayed f
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headings.
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1^-inch white (or yellow) deal bittens, edge nailed, and tongued headings,
li-inch yellow deal batten (or clean batten), dowelled with oak dowels, wiih
mitred and glued borders.
Warehouse
floors.
l^-inch yellow deal, rough, edges shot. U-incli _^e/A/H' deal, wrought, and bud
folding. ] |-inch yellow deal, wrought, and straight joint and splayed headings
2-inch yellow deal, rough, edges shot, and 2-inch yellow deal, wrought, and laid
folding. 2-incli yellow deal, wi-ought, and laid straight joint, and splayed
headings
All these la.st may be ploughed, rebated, and feather-tongued.
Put to .... floors (or to the whole, if desired) sofZ /;oar(i?/;'<;r of f-inch
rough deal
fixed upon fillets, to receive the pugging. (See 2287.)
Floors of inlaid ov parquetry work to be specially described according to drawings.
In churches, the floors under the seats are usually of wood, and require rebated and
chamfered oak mar^iins, G inches by 4 inches, laid flatwse, where they abut upon
paved floors. These m;i2-gins are to be mortised or dowelled to receive bench ends,
and the wood floors to be kept 3 inches above the tile floors on whicli they abut.
ti'ee woodh-ock floors.
Skirtings.^-inch (or |--inch) deal square. |-inch (or 1-inch) de^l torus. l-inch
(or
l;f-inch) ileal square; or l-icch deal square skirting, rebated and backed
]ilinth, Avith fillet nailed to floor. l^-inch deal torus; or ly-inch deal torus
skirting, rebated and backed plinth, with fillet naded to floor. If any of these, ms
to stairs, are raking, and to be scribed to steps, they must be so described, and if
riimped or scribed to moulded nosings, or circular on plan.
Dado, nailed to ground:
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l-inch, and 1^-inch deal keyed.
1^ inch deal keyed,
ploughed and tongued, or feather-tongued, if required. JMention if they are to be
scribed to steps, circular on plan, and wreathed, or ramped. Dadoes are now made
of framed wainscot, in panels, &c., accoiding to drawings.
Wainscoting, with fascia and t-kirting.l-inch deal, square friuied
;
and perhaps
dwarf. Ij-inch deal, square framed; and perhaps dwarf. 1^-inch deal, bead
butt (or moulded), or bead flush. The number of panels high to be specified.
State if any to bD made raking, or to have a beaded or moulded c;ipping.
Partitions of deal for the division of rooms.
l-inch deal bonrd, and braced witli ^-iiich panels."]
l|-inch deal, braced with |-inch panels.
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The.-e ;ire seldom made.
1^- inch deal, rough, and ledged edges shot.
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1^-inch deal, wrought both sides, and ploughed
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cr tongued and beaded.
Ij-inch, or 1^-inch, square framed.
l|-inch, bead butt, moulded and .'quare ; or bead flush and square or moulded
both sides.