Part 11 (2/2)
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Where lintels occur, they are to be tailed in at least 9 in on each side the opening
Provide plain picture-rail round all roo where necessary
Secure to floor round all boarded roo
(10) The sive good key to the plaster
Before rendering or plastering walls, any loose earth or dust to be removed with a stiff brush and the wall surface evenly wetted
[Illustration: NEWLANDS CORNER PISe HOUSE THE PLAN]
The rendering to be carried evenly round the walls--the hly chipped down first so as to obviate sharp corners
The main corners of the house are ready-rounded off to a 9-in radius by the special corner mould
(11) Bond brick and slab work to pise walls by driving iron spikes into the latter every few courses at joint level and bedding in
(12) Colour-alls with tallow li of pitch, applied hot, to for
[Illustration: +Newlands The Backyard, showing Barn with Pise Pillars+]
[Illustration: +Newlands Fra the Roof+]
[Illustration: +Newlands An Interior, showing Fire-brick Hearth Fire+]
NB--The exterior of the walls of the Newlands Corner house have been finished in several different ith a view to deter the most durable and econo has stood for four years without any external protection whatever It has suffered no darows continually harder For the sake of appearances, however, and for the better preservation of the wall fro of some sort may be deemed necessary
[Headnote: A Swedish Contribution]
THE THEORY OF PISe
The Swedish scientist, Mr Karl Ellington, of Nossebro, who is basing a book on pise (in his own tongue) upon the frail foundation of the present volume, has, in the course of a letter to the author, uesses at the truth”
”I a to use an hydraulic raood deal about this pressure business I a fro to trace out how Nature makes rock That helps us to understand pise Nature made all the stratified rocks out of as once fine loose earth and nawed the shores and got down some more stuff The tides went forth and back and shovelled and levelled at the sea-bottom Some more mud on top of that, and a few hundred or thousand feet of the heavy water on top of that--and Nature's pise was in its ether for ever even after that stratuh above the sea and the pressure is discontinued? That is the counterpoint of the whole problenetic or electric energy? We don't know Do particles of ether close enough to be united by soy? Or do the particles only get a 'rip on each other? However that rip by bringing theether It would see as iven cubic space as we possibly can; that is, we must have as little of 'holes,' 'empty spaces,' pores and channels as possible in the mass, in the pressed wall This, then, would in turn make it important that plenty of very fine (small) particlesthe coarser particles as to be on hand close by wherever there can be one more chance for a small particle to fill a little chae over We can think of hoell Nature was fitted for this work of shuffling over all the particles at the sea-bottoot every particle into the niche where it would exactly fit She used waves, tides, and gulf streams as shovels and mixers and packers, and the water above as 'hydraulic ra at the pise _ and the _shuffling_ are of vital i' I er particles get a chance to shi+ft over a little during the process of pressing the earth together to hardness, so that the pressure ht doard direction, but in a sort of wavy zigzag direction as well--ravel a little forth and back at the sareat respect for old tools which are the outco-time experience and handed-doisdom
I suspect the presence of some of that sort of experience in the rammer described in your book, p 59 That tool would do the necessary shi+fting while attending to its _ether doards Now for your hydraulic ramht line doard? Maybe there ought to be two or three kinds of strokes alternating--one stroke with a rifled or wavy surface under the rammer--and the next stroke with a _plane_ surfaceWhat sort of witchcraft enters into the effect of _high frequency blows_ as coer intervals between? Do the strokes create also sonetic' effect in the pounded earth-mass which helps to fasten the particles to each other? And does this e or friction heat, or whatever it is, actthe iron while hot,'
instead of letting the charge 'evaporate' and sneak away between strokes? Two or three of rey over these questions alone You coht stumble across some fruitful idea for the forms or boxes if I speculate a littlewon't leave ht out several foolish variations and rejected them too But the last one seems to have a little more vitality, so if it will live till I write my next letter I will tell you about it One is so apt to follow the te away fro it cheap, sirown ripe in ht to write out a little book on the pise proble ought to be doneI have to ask you kindly to permit me to make use of the data contained in your book To this I will have to add what special precautions we must observe as to foundations in a climate like ours I intend to treat only the pise method Cob and chalk methods are not applicable here, as we have such ton has long been an adh to regard his country as indebted to ours for the introduction of pise-building:
”Letme now--not me, but my nation--ork as an additional bond that draws us more closely towards each otherSome of our people here have always looked too much towards the South and too little towards the West”
[Headnote: A Pise-Builder's School]