The Paper-hanger's Companion: A Treatise on Paper-hanging; in which the Practical Operations of the Trade are Systematically Laid Down with Copious Directions Preparatory to Papering; Preventions Against the Effect of Damp on Walls; the Various Cements and Pastes Adapted to the Trade; Observations and Directions for the Panelling and Ornamenting of Rooms, &cH.C. Baird, 1852 - 108 páginas |
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Página 1 - Paper-Hanger's Companion : A Treatise in which the Practical Operations of the Trade are Systematically laid down: with Copious Directions Preparatory to Papering; Preventives against the Effect of Damp on Walls; the various Cements and Pastes Adapted to the Several Purposes 01 the Trade ; Observations and Directions for the Panelling and Ornamenting of Rooms, etc.
Página 45 - ... and thus the juices had an opportunity of drying up gradually. In 1827, on making some alterations in a passage, I put down and painted a new plinth, made of the best, and apparently, well-seasoned foreign deal. The stone wall was faced with wood and laths; and the plaster was so well worked to the plinth, that it might be said to have been air-tight. In about four months, a yellow fungus was perceived to ooze out between the bottom of the plinth and the flags; and on taking up the plinth, both...
Página 46 - A new plinth was immediately put down; and holes, 1-V inches in diameter, at every yard, were bored through it. This admitted a free circulation of air; and to this day the wood is as sound and good as the day on which it was first put down. The same year, I reared up, in the end of a neglected and notoriously damp barn, a lot of newly felled larch poles; and I placed another lot of larch poles against the wall on the outside of the same barn. These are now good and well seasoned: those within became...
Página 45 - Put another piece of the same tree into a ship, or into a house, where there is no access to the fresh air, and ere long it will be decomposed. But should you have painted the piece of wood which you placed in an upright position, it will not last long ; because, the paint having stopped up its pores, the incarcerated juices have become vitiated, and have caused the wood to rot. Nine times in ten, wood is painted too soon. The upright unpainted posts, in the houses of our ancestors, though exposed...
Página 44 - Dry rot is a misnomer. This disease in timber ought to be designated a decomposition of wood by its own internal juices, which have become vitiated for want of a free circulation of air. If you rear a piece of timber, newly cut down, in an upright position in the open air, it will last forages.
Página 45 - Nine times in ten is wood painted too soon. The upright unpainted posts in the houses of our ancestors, though exposed to the heats of summer and the blasts of winter, have lasted for centuries ; because the pores of the wood were not closed by any external application of tar or paint, and thus the juices had an opportunity of drying up gradually. If, then, you admit a free circulation of the air to the timber which is used in a house, (no difficult matter,) and abstain from painting timber till...
Página 47 - I placed another lot of larch poles against the wall on the outside of the same barn. These are now good and well seasoned : those within became tainted, the first year, with what is called dry rot, and were used for firewood. If, then, you admit a free circulation of air to the timber which is used in a house (no difficult matter), and abstain from painting that timber till it be perfectly seasoned, you will never suffer from what is called dry rot. And if the naval architect, by means of air-holes...
Página 44 - ... a free circulation of air. If you rear a piece of timber, newly cut down, in an upright position in the open air, it will last for ages. Put another piece of the same tree into a ship, or into a house, where there is no access to the fresh air, and ere long it will be decomposed. But, should you have painted the piece of wood which you placed in an upright position, it will not last long ; because, the paint having stopped up its pores, the incarcerated juices have become vitiated, and have caused...
Página 47 - I applied the solution of corrosive sublimate to a large quantity of these arrows. At this hour they are perfectly sound, and show no appearance that the worm has ever tried to feed upon them.
Página 88 - For this room few ornaments are requisite, beyond the display on the sideboard, the walls coloured in distemper, or painted flat in oil, of a warm colour, with gold or japanned mouldings: panelling in imitation of oak is also appropriate ; the curtains claret or crimson cloth, trimmed with...