Part 9 (2/2)
”The necessary plant will consist of--2 wooden rammers, 1 iron shod rammer, 2 straight boxes, 2 angle boxes, 3 casings for blocking up the ends of boxes, bolts and keys for same, 12 gauge rods, washers--a liberal supply of -in. washers, 2 shovels, 1 spade, a horse and dray or other means for transporting the material to the building (if required).”
The following detailed instructions are taken from the same authority:
[Headnote: Pise in New Zealand]
SPECIFICATION CLAUSES FOR A PISe HOUSE (NEW ZEALAND)
_Excavator._--Remove the turf to make footings, but not deeper at any place than 3 in. Step where required.
_Pise-Builder_
_Walls._--Erect the walls as shown on plan, external walls 18 in., internal walls 15 in., carried up plumb and true, with all cross walls properly bonded by continuing the pise-boxes around all angles; when necessary, the material for the walls is to be properly tempered with sufficient water. All sticks and vegetable matter are to be removed.
_Suitable material_: to be a pipeclay loam, with a trace of small gravel evenly distributed through it.[8] The boxes to be filled in thin layers of 4 in. at a time, and well rammed until solid; the workmen are not to use their rammers in unison.
[Footnote 8: This was specified because it was the best material near the site.]
The whole of the internal angles, also door and window jambs, to be neatly splayed.
_Floating._--Moisten well the outside and inside walls before the floors are laid, and float same to even smooth surface with wooden hand-float, using weak plaster, where required.
_Bolts._--To hold down wall-plates, provide and build in in. bolts, not less than 15 in. long, and s.p.a.ced not more than 6 ft. apart.
_Damp-course._--Below all walls lay a three-ply Ruberoid damp-course the full width of walls, to lap at ends at least 4 in.
_Ventilators._--Insert below floors, where directed, four 9 in. by 6 in.
galvanised iron air gratings, in wooden frames 1 in. thick by full width of walls; also insert at about 18 in. below ceiling similar air gratings and frames.
_Plugs._--Insert plugs 3 ft. apart for skirting, chair and picture-rail, at the heights directed.
_Frames._--Set all frames plumb and true, and secured in wall before removing head. Lintels and heads must be well and solidly bedded in mortar, at proper heights. The whole of the work to be done in a proper workmanlike manner.
_Fillet._--Finish against intersection of floor and wall with neat 1 in. quarter-round fillet, scribed to wall and floor and nailed to floors.
The pise-builder will require to build into wall at all window and door openings 3 in. by 3 in. shaped plugs, s.p.a.ced not more than 3 ft. apart to secure architraves.
_Lintels._--For all door and window openings provide 6 in. by 4 in.
well-seasoned pine lintels, to extend 12 in. into pise-work on each side of opening.
_Skirting._--Provide and fix in all rooms, to plugs about 3 ft. apart, 6-in. skirting, neatly scribed to floors, mitred at angles as required.
_Picture-rail._--Provide 3 in. by 1 in. picture-rail to all rooms.
_Plugs._--Prepare and tar for pise-builder 3 in. by 1 in. well-seasoned softwood plugs, 15 in. long, as per detail, for skirtings, picture- and chair-rail, to be inserted 3 ft. apart.
STUDDING, WIRE-NETTING, AND PISe
”This is a modification of Pise, which provides a settler in a district where poles and saplings are available with a quick method of providing himself with a comfortable temporary residence without the expenditure of much cash. To construct buildings of this character, a framework of saplings or poles, at intervals of 3 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. apart, is first erected; this framework is covered on both sides with 1 in. mesh wire-netting. The two sections of netting are held together, strengthened, and prevented from stretching and bulging between the posts by means of wire hooks or loops, which are as long as the posts are wide. The s.p.a.ces thus enclosed by the netting and the poles are then filled with earth, which is well rammed, thus making a solid wall 4 in.
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