Palliser's New Cottage Homes

Palliser & Co.

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486148038
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Histoire de l'architecture

Meticulous reproduction of the now-rare catalog — originally issued in 1887 — includes 1, 500 detailed drawings of floor plans, elevations, perspective views, architectural details, and interior ornamentation; designs for villas, farmhouses, town and country places, barns, and city brick block houses; and fine-lined illustrations of windows, eaves, and other architectural elements.

SPECIFICATIONS (Written to go with Working and Detail Drawings).

Of the works and materials required in the erection, construction and completion of Design No. 10, Plate 4.

DIMENSIONS.—The drawings and details must be accurately followed according to their scale, and in all cases’preference must be given to figured dimensions over scale. The building to be in size as shown on plars (figured on drawings). Cellar, 6ft. 6in. ; first floor, 9ft. 0in. ; second floor, 8ft. 6in. in the clear, divided, subdivided, and built in exact accordance with plans and specifications.

MASON WORK.

Excavations.—Do all necessary excavating required for cellar, area and all foundations, to firm and solid ground, and all to be in depth so that foundations will be clear of frost, also excavate for cesspools and dig out space where shown three feet deeper than cellar bottom for cistern. Fill in around all walls and grade off the grourd at completion, and remove any surplus earth.

Foundation Work.—Build the foundation walls of good flat building stone. of firm bed, well bonded through the wall, laid up in clean, sharp sand lime and cement mortar, in parts of one of cement to two of lime, laid by and full to a line on the inner face, and flushed and pointed at completion. These walls to be 1ft. 4 in. thick. Put down in like manner foundations under all piers, chimneys and exterior steps, all to be clear of frost.

Underpinning.—From the top of foundation wall, at grade level extend up 2 ft. 4 in. in height, with stone wall 1 ft. 4 in. thick, laid up with good even colored gray underpinning stone, rock faced, beds and joints worked off with stone hammer to level and plumb and cleaned down and pointed at completion —window sills of blue stone.

Piers.—Build piers in cellar also for support of Porches, as shown, of best Lard-burned brick.

Chimneys and Fire Places.—Build the chimneys as shown, using hard-burned brick, the flues to have all mortar joints flushed up close and smooth, and plaster over the brick work in rooms before studding or furring is done—with one good coat. Open fire places to bo faced up with buff brick laid in buff mortar. Turn trimmer arches to fire places under hearths, hearths to be of smooth slate properly bedded. Top out the chimneys above the roof, as shown, with selected brick of even color.

Hatchway.—Build the hatchway to cellar as shown on plan, treads of stone walled in, on each end, risers of hard brick, jambs to be of same material as cellar walls and coped with stone on which to secure frame and doors.

Lathing.—All stud partitions, ceilings and work that is furred off, on first and second floors, to be lathed with sound spruce lath and joints broken every tenth lath.

Plastering.—All walls, partitions and ceilings, throughout first and second floors, to be plastered one good coat of brown well-haired mortar, and finish with a coat of soapstone finish. All walls to be finished straight and plumb ; all angles to be maintained sharp and regular in form, and the plastering, in all cases, to extend clear down to the floor.

Whitewashing.—Stop, point and lime whiten twice the whole of mason work in cellar, also whitewash floor joist and timber work overhead.

Cellar Bottom.—Level off the cellar bottom, settle it thoroughly and cover it flush and smooth throughout with cement concrete, three parts of clean, coarse gravel, and one of good cement 2 in. deep and finish with an even surface.

Drains.—To carry off wastes from plumbing, to be of vitrified pipe, size ; as marked, and to run 60 ft. to rear of house and there connect with cesspools to be properly graded and all joints made tight.

Cistern.—Build a cistern as shown under pantry 6 ft. deep, 8 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, inside measurement, lay the walls of hard brick, 8 in. thick, bottom to be laid in two courses of brick laid flat, the whole laid in and smoothly coated on the inside with cement. Connect the cistern with house leaders through 6 in. vitrified pipe. Lay a 6 in. drain overflow connected closely with the cistern near its top, trap it and connect with drain to cesspool.

Cesspools.—Construct a cesspool 5 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. deep in the clear, draw in on top in a substantial manner, leave manhole with cover of flag stone. Build a separate cesspool for overflow from cistern—with stone walls laid dry and 3 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. Cesspools to be located 60 ft. from house.

CARPENTER.

Timber.—All timber not otherwise specified, to be of good seasoned spruce and put together in the most substantial and thoroughly workmanlike manner known to the trade.

Framing.—The frame to be what is known as a balloon frame, well nailed together ; second floor girts to be notched into and well spiked to studs. Do all necessary framing around stairways and chimneys properly mortised and tenoned together.

Frame Timber.—Girders, 6x6 in.; sills, 3x7 in.; posts, 4x5 in ; girts of yellow pine, 1x4 in.; plates, 2x4 in., double and well spiked into ends of studding. First floor timbers, 2x9 in.; second floor, 2x8 in.—16 in. centres ; header and trimmer beams, 3 in. thick ; roof rafters, 2x5 in.—2 ft. centres ; door and window studs, 3x4 in. intermediate studding, 2x4 in.—16 in. centres ; studding in partitions, 2x4 in.—16 in. centres. Porch sills and cross sills, 3x6 in.; floor timbers, 2x6 in.—20 in. centres.

Bridging.—Bridge the floor timbers through centres with 1x2 in. cross-bridging, properly cut in between timbers, and nailed at each end with two 10d. nails.

Furring.—Furr overhead on rafters, using 2x3 in. stuff for ceilings of rooms on second floor, and do any other furring required ; also furnish any other timber, as required by the design, of the requisite sizes and quality.

Sheathing.—Cover all sides of frame with tongued and grooved boards, not to exceed 8 in. in width, nailed through each edge to every stud with 10d. nails.

Lumber.—The lumber to be of white pine, unless otherwise specified, free from knots, shakes and other imperfections impairing its durability and strength.

Water Table to be

in. thick, beveled and rabbeted for clapboards.

Corner Boards, casings and bands to be

in.; bands to be rabbeted top and bottom for clapboards and beveled on top.

Shingling on sides of second story to be as shown, using shingle 6 in. wide and laid 6 in. to the weather and all laid close and made tight at angles and corners, each shingle nailed with two nails.

Clapboarding.—Cover first story with clear pine clapboards

in. wide, put on with 8d. box nails, to have not less than

in. lap and underlaid with rosin-sized, waterproof sheathing felt, which, also, place under all covering, casings, watertable, etc., so as to lap and make tight job.

Cornices to be formed as shown, gutter formed on same and lined with tin, so as to shed water to points indicated on plan ; all as per detail drawings.

Window Frames to be made as shown ; cellar frames of 2 in. plank rabbeted for sash ; Sash hinged to top, and to have suitable fasteners to keep open or shut; all other sashes to be double hung with braided cotton cord and cast-iron weights, and to be glazed with best American sheet glass all sashes

in. thick, of seasoned pine, window sills 2 in. thick.

in.

Blinds.—Outside blinds to all windows, except cellar, hang in two folds, properly secured.

Door Frames.—Outside door frames of plank, rabbeted, with 2 in. oak sills.

Porches to be constructed as shown by the detail drawings ; steps

in. thick,

in. risers, to have cove under nosings; lay floors with

in. flooring, blind nailed to beams, and to have white lead joints ; ceiling ceiled with narrow beaded battens of even width and molded in angles. Columns, rails, newels, panels, etc., all as per detail drawings.

Roofing.—All roofs to be covered with 18 in. sawed pine shingles, laid on 1 x 2 in. strips, nailed to rafters with 10d. nails ; each shingle to be nailed with two 4d. nails, to be weil laid, joints properly broken and made tight ; valleys to be lined with tin 20 inches wide and well painted both sides. Put small sent-tle in roof and step ladder to same.

Floors.—Lay the floors throughout with

in. flooring, not to exceed 6 in. in width, to be well laid, joints broken, and well nailed to every timber ; the best to be selected and laid on first floor.

Partitions.—Set partitions as marked on ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PALLISER’S
• PREFATORY.
• INTRODUCTORY.
• PLATE I.
• PLATE 2.
• PLATE 3.
• PLATE 4.
• PLATE 5.
• PLATE 6.
• PLATE 7.
• PLATE 8.
• PLATE 9.
• PLATE 10.
• PLATE 11.
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• PLATE 27.
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• PLATE 29
• PLATE 30.
• PLATE 31 AND 32.
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• PLATE 58.
• PLATE 59.
• PLATE 60.
• PLATE 61.
• PLATE 62.
• PLATE 63.
• PLATE 64
• PLATE 65
• SPECIFICATIONS (Written to go with Working and Detail Drawings).
• SPECIFICATIONS.