Healthy Houses: A Handbook to the History, Defects, and Remedies of Drainage, Ventilation, Warming, and Kindred Subjects. With Estimates for the Best Systems in Use, and Upwards of 300 IllustrationsD. Appleton, 1872 - 228 Seiten |
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Seite 30 - Take a clean, water-tight barrel or other suitable cask, and put into it half a bushel of lime. Slack it by pouring water over it, boiling hot, and in sufficient quantity to cover it five inches deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly slaked. When the slaking has been effected, dissolve it in water, and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc, and one of common salt. These will cause the wash to...
Seite 199 - ... be erected, it ought not to be introduced as an after-thought. " It should be remembered, that as its complete success, and its economical character, depend, in a great measure, upon due consideration of its benefits being given at the commencement of a building, so it ought, in future, to engage the primary consideration of the architect and builder.
Seite 127 - contamination of water, both hard and soft, impure and pure, by lead, is, in all parts of the kingdom and under every variety of circumstances, the cause or...