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Building | construction W.B.McKay METRIC - VOLUME 1 PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION Iw this edition the various units have been converted to metric terms, Since the first appearance of this volume in 1938, the materials of construction for simple two-storey structures have hardly changed although techniques have been modified. 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Brack Wala, FOUNDATIONS. : 5 ctialsBonding—Stopped. Ende~Junctions and Quoins-—Piers—Jambs—-Caviry Walls—Foundations-—Dasnp Coarnee Sue Concrete Offsets ai Corbels—Lintele—Archer—Window Sill—Thresholds—Copings— 1+—Tools, Construction, Jointing snd Pointing—Plastered Walls ner Quarrying —Preparation—Defects—Walling—Rubble Werk—Ashlar—Arches Window ice String, Courses Copings—Masonry Joints—Mortar Jointing—Lafting Appliances soning, Preservation, Conversion, Defects and Classification of Tunber—Floon— ‘reused Hatter end Framed Roofs Trench Timbering—Centering IV, Doors, Winpows, Stas. : Ledged Braced und Battened, Framed Ledged Braced and Battened, Panelled and Flush Doore—Timber Casement, Cased Frame, Pivoted and Yorkshire Windows, Metal Windows—Hardware—Arehitraves, Skitings, Piture Rails and Angle BeadsStairs—Nails, Serews and Fasteners—Tools. V, Roor Covenines : es ¢ oe : Formation, Quarrving, Conversion, Preparation and Charactersties of Slates—Centre-naled and Head-naled ‘lating Details--Naile--Ridges-Higa—Valleyy—Toole—Plain and toueriocking Tiina theraterstca of Yead—Lend Rolls, Drips, Flashings and Soskers—Detoils of Leadwork at Gut ‘Stacks, Ridccs, Hips and Valleye—Leend and Copper Pipe Joints—Eaves Gutter—Down- ‘VIL Mun Stet Srevions, Botts aNo Rivers HOMEWORK PROGRAMME. INDEX . & 131 - 158 - 163 am vonuodoxd sodoud ur sjeuaveus ayp ‘pasn sf su1ypews auip asinine: uiosied © UO au0p 3 shea 241 fo yiBuoue ous topos Sigopurs lyocs foo 2 24 aana (sjasoys Bursn kg) kip 40s0 pavamy uo, oxi pur uuopieed papseog uo paoerd 91 ‘puey Aq poxyus 3] -Gaunypew Aq 20 pury fq, s34%9 2u0p tenon ious at sts te unovy woo pinby, yom e or paomper uasq 81 puns ayJ, “pues £ :auows> 1 jo aun © st sm ——FEHIONY poxsu: 99 p]noys wa1yy Suspuu¥ pur Sunnie: ay) “anoyBnoy umoprun 2q freys feuzarets 242 so Aasuap 243 vey> 21nsU2 OF $e OF Burpyng 242 uo painbos a:2ym porsodap Aynjaiea aq pinoys 21919009 94,1, ‘AqyBnouoyn a1e pues pur aun ayy ‘qs Bnd #1 poxn 001 zayirau “Kouarsisuos YB 242 jo Summ “poonpas Aqasoys qnSuasis pur aunge aq On oye ‘uw gf # yfnonp js 0380 a1 won 9ai309 24) "wos ST1VM ADIN ‘aves zapun Bumas yo Gusdosd ayy amy aL “ansrjd 01 20u yr 18 panunuos uonesado BONDING BONDING, SOLID BRICK WALLS of the bricklayer is concerned with embedding bricks in mortar rranging them so that the mass, called brickwork, conforms with during the const ‘wasted if a consignment contains bricks of varying siz is required to make a selection as the work proceeds. ‘The length of a brick should be twice its width int in order that @ proper bond may be Bricks in common use vary in size ‘OF A BONDED WALL & WEAKNESS. OF AN UNBONDED WALL makes a format of 200 by 120 by 75 mm. 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