Carpentry and Contracting; A Practical Reference Work on Carpentry, Building Superintendence, Etc Volume 3 - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1230182381 ISBN 13: 9781230182384

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...are not subjected to hard wear, a plain glazed tile makes a clean and satisfactory job, but where much wear will come, the hard, vitreous, unglazed tiles give a better wearing surface. The foundation for tiles should be prepared from the best Portland cement; it should be perfectly level and allowed to harden thoroughly before the tiles are laid. The foundation for both floor and wall tiles should be carefully brushed, to remove all dust and other foreign substance, and then well wet before the cement bedding is applied. Portland cement should be used for setting floor or wall tiles, and for grouting the floors, and the best Keene's cement for filling the joints in wall tiling. Clean sharp sand, well screened, should be used in equal parts with the cement for floors, and with 2 parts sand to 1 of cement for walls. The tiles must be thoroughly soaked in water before setting. Floor tiles are set by being firmly pressed into the mortar bed and then tamped until perfectly level. When the bed is sufficiently set, the joints are grouted with pure cement and cleaned off with sawdust or fine shavings. Wall tiles are set by two methods, called floating and buttering. In floating the tiles, a portion of the bed is spread on the wall, and the tiles placed in position and tamped until firmly united. Buttering consists in spreading the mortar on the back of each tile, which is then placed against the prepared wall and tapped gently until it is united with the bed. When the tiles are all set, by either process, the joints are carefully washed out and filled with cement. When fixtures are to be secured to the walls, as for plumbing, etc., a wooden piece should be fastened to the wall, flush with the rough bed, and the tiles laid over it, to be bored for...

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• ISBN 10: 1230182381
• ISBN 13: 9781230182384
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch