I just noticed that my favorite Architecture book is now available for free.
Here is a link to a digitized version…. Mr Hand on page 9 is kinda funny…but what the Hey this book is free!
I just noticed that my favorite Architecture book is now available for free.
Here is a link to a digitized version…. Mr Hand on page 9 is kinda funny…but what the Hey this book is free!
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Check out the early "mooney wall" on Page 99
http://books.google.com/books?id=plY1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167&dq=William+a+radford+old+house+tin+drawings#PPA99,M1
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Not really a Mooney wall. It is really a vent skin wall.
Not unlike the modern vent skin walls for siding but is utilized a bit differently.
Tore down an old ice house here built with that construction.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Dovetail,
that was me comparing it to a mooney wall.
Similar in that the furring strips are reducing thermal bridging.
I noticed that they used sawdust to pack the walls.
Some of the other details in the book showed 2 layers of 2 inch cork.
I am not familiar with vent skin walls.
Can you describe the vent skin wall a little more?
Edited 5/10/2009 5:22 pm by homedesign
Rain Screen/ Vent Skin. Siding is hung on furring strips so that there is air/water passage behind it. Utilizes the same thermal "chimney" concept for heat reduction.
Keeping the siding off the sheathing helps reduce heat gain and also allows a passage for water to drain out.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
homedesign,
You are a champ.
Thank you for that link.
I have the "Complete Cyclopedia of Construction"
Same company , 9 or 10 books IIRC
Good reading.
Very cool. I noticed on page 56 they show a metal joist hangar (although it's made of wrought iron instead of galvanized steel.) I didn't realize they were using joist hangars back then.
http://books.google.com/books?id=plY1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167&dq=William+a+radford+old+house+tin+drawings#PPA186,M1
Page 186 ....
does anyone know what a fireless cooker is?
What is excelsior?
excelsior is what Marvel Comics' editor-in-chief used in his 1960s-70s salutation when signing out of his monthly 'Marvel Bullpen' comments on the readers page.
Excelsior is a packing or insulation material.
Wood shredded into long fibers is what I think of . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_wool I am guessing that the idea of that box is that a kettle is
pre-heated and set in the insulated chambers to finish cooking or the galvanized liners are to hold hot water.
Edited 5/10/2009 3:50 pm by dovetail97128
Remember you teenage architecture hounds. Practice safe page turning.
Always put a widget on your digit.
Thanks for the link. Like how those risers are rabbeted into the treads.
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