Foundations and Foundation Walls,: For All Classes of Buildings, Pile Driving, Building Stones and Bricks, Pier and Wall Construction, Mortars, Limes, Cements, Concretes, Stuccos, Etc...To which is Added a Treatise on Foundations, with Practical Illustrations of the Method of Isolated Piers, as Followed in Chicago, by Frederick Bauman [i.e. Baumann] ...W.T. Comstock, 1888 - 166 pages |
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Foundations and Foundation Walls,: For All Classes of Buildings, Pile ... Frederick Baumann,George T Powell No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 87 - Buildings, may bring and maintain an action against the person or persons last herein referred to, to recover the value of the work done and materials furnished in and about the said premises in the same manner as if he had been employed to do the said work by the said person or persons.
Page 88 - Portland cement concrete, they shall be at least eight inches thicker than the wall next above them to a depth of twelve feet below the curb level ; and for every additional ten feet, or part thereof, deeper, they shall be increased four inches in thickness. If built of brick, they shall be at least four inches thicker than the wall...
Page 93 - The ends of wood beams resting upon girders shall be butted together end to end and strapped by wrought-iron straps of the same size and distance apart, and in the same beam as the wall anchors, and shall be fastened in the same manner as said wall anchors.
Page 91 - ... brick, and putting in diagonal headers behind the same, or by splitting face brick in half, and backing the same by a continuous row of headers. In all walls which are faced with thin ashlar, anchored to the backing, or in which the ashlar has not either alternate headers and stretchers in each course, or...
Page 74 - ... in the proportion of one part of cement, two parts of sand and four parts of stone or gravel, or in such proportion as to produce a maximum density.
Page 91 - All stone walls twenty-four inches or less in thickness shall have at least one header extending through the wall in every three feet in height from the bottom of the wall, and in every three feet in length, and if over twenty-four inches in thickness, shall have one header for every six superficial feet on both sides of the wall, laid on top of each other to bond together, and running into the wall at least two feet.
Page 93 - In no case shall any wall or walls of any building be carried up more than two stories in advance of any other wall, except by permission of the Commissioner of Buildings having jurisdiction, but this prohibition shall not include the inclosure walls for skeleton buildings.
Page 91 - Every temporary support placed under any structure, wall, girder, or beam, during the erection, finishing, alteration, or repairing of any building, or part thereof, shall be equal in strength to the permanent support required for such structure, wall, girder, or beam. And the walls of every building shall be strongly braced from the beams of each story until the building is...
Page 87 - ... not be less than two by three feet, and at least eight inches in thickness for walls; and not less than ten inches in thickness If under piers, columns or posts...
Page 92 - No swelled or refuse brick shall be allowed in any wall or pier ; and all brick used in the construction, alteration or repair of any building or part thereof, shall be good, hard, well-burnt brick...