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Rural Building Course Volume 3
Construction
Series: Rural Building Course
Published: 1995
Pages: 312
eBook: 9781780444697
Paperback: 9781853393204
From foundations, walls, doors and windows, to roofs, plaster and render, locks and painting.
| BUILDING PRELIMINARIES 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| - Site selection / Location plan / Working drawings / Plot and | |||
| site clearing / Site organization / Water supply | |||
| SETTING OUT 7 | |||
| - Interfering objects / Uneven ground / Sloping sites / Profiles | |||
| FOUNDATIONS 15 | |||
| - Types of foundations / Functions of the foundation / Dimensions | |||
| for strip foundations | |||
| NON-CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS 17 | |||
| - Rubble and boulder foundations / Ashlar masonry foundations / | |||
| Bonding principles / Laterite rock foundations / Artificial | |||
| stone foundations | |||
| CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS 29 | |||
| - Excavating the foundation trenches / Measurements of stepped | |||
| foundations / Levelling the trenches and marking the foundation | |||
| depth / Mix proportions / Preparations before casting / | |||
| Casting / Levelling the foundations / Curing | |||
| FOOTINGS 43 | |||
| - Functions of the footings / Materials and measurements | |||
| SPECIAL BONDS 45 | |||
| - Different wall thicknesses at a quoin / Different wall thicknesses | |||
| at a T-junction / Different wall thicknesses at a cross junction | |||
| HARDCORE FILLING 59 | |||
| - Functions of the hardcore filling / Materials and arrangement / | |||
| Compaction of the hardcore | |||
| PLINTH COURSE 60 | |||
| POSITIONS OF DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES 61 | |||
| DOOR FRAMES 63 | |||
| - Types of door frames / Joints for door frames / Heads of | |||
| door frames / Measurements for door frames / Concrete shoe / | |||
| Installing door frames | |||
| WINDOW FRAMES 77 | |||
| - Types of window frames / Measurements of window frames / | |||
| Steel cramps / Joints for window frames / Cills of window | |||
| frames / Heads of window frames / Installing window frames | |||
| WALLING UP BETWEEN FRAMES 87 | |||
| MOSQUITO PROOFING 87 | |||
| BURGLAR PROOFING 89 | |||
| - Types of burglar of burglar proofing for windows | |||
| DOORS 91 | |||
| - Types of doors / Sizes of doors / Position of the door / | |||
| Finishing treatment of the door / Ledged and battened doors / | |||
| Ledged, braced and battened doors / Panelled doors / Flush | |||
| doors / Large doors | |||
| WINDOWS 109 | |||
| - Types of casements / Battened casements / Panelled casements / | |||
| Glazed casements / Flush casements / Joints / Louvre windows | |||
| WORKING SCAFFOLDS 117 | |||
| - Jack scaffold / Blocklayers scaffold / Ladder scaffold / | |||
| Independent scaffold | |||
| SUPPORTING SCAFFOLD 125 | |||
| PROTECTIVE SCAFFOLDING 127 | |||
| ARCHES 128 | |||
| - Technical terms / Stability of arches / The segmental arch / | |||
| Types of centring / Setting out the turning piece / Positions of | |||
| the archstones / Setting up the centring / Skewback template / | |||
| Laying the archblocks | |||
| REINFORCED CONCRETE LINTELS 145 | |||
| - Formwork / Reinforcement / Reinforcement systems / | |||
| Corrosion in reinforced concrete | |||
| WALLING ABOVE FRAMES 155 | |||
| FORMWORK SYSTEM FOR RING BEAM 155 | |||
| ROOFS IN GENERAL 157 | |||
| - Roof types / Size of the roof / Roof pitch / Effective length | |||
| of the sheets / Outline design / Loads | |||
| LIGHT-WEIGHT STRUCTURES 165 | |||
| - Basic shape of the roof construction / Technical terms | |||
| LENGTHENING JOINTS FOR LIGHT-WEIGHT STRUCTURES 169 | |||
| - Where to place a lengthening joint / Fish joints / Other | |||
| lengthening joints | |||
| CONSTRUCTION DETAILS 175 | |||
| - Lean-to roof / Pent roofs / Gable roof / Designing built-up | |||
| trusses / Joints for the truss / Marking out built-up trusses / | |||
| Assembly of built-up trusses / Erecting a roof structure for | |||
| a gable roof / Purlins / Fascia boards / Verandahs / Anchorage | |||
| ROOF COVERING 201 | |||
| - Alignment of the sheets / Sidelaps / Ridge caps / Helpful hints | |||
| for roof covering | |||
| HEAT PENETRATION - INSULATION 207 | |||
| LIGHTENING 207 | |||
| HIP ROOFS 209 | |||
| - Setting out and constructing the half truss / Position and | |||
| measurements of the hip truss / Constructing the hip truss / | |||
| Erecting the hip of the roof / Covering a hip roof | |||
| HIP AND VALLEY ROOF 219 | |||
| - Position and measurements of the hip and valley roof / | |||
| Construction of a hip and valley truss / Covering a hip and | |||
| valley roof | |||
| PLASTER AND RENDER 225 | |||
| - Composition of plaster or render / Preparing the wall for | |||
| plastering / Application techniques / Sequence of operations | |||
| for plastering a straight wall / Positions of edge boards for | |||
| plastering corners / Positions of edge boards for plastering | |||
| around frames / Positions of edge boards for plastering the | |||
| tops of gables / Positions of edge boards for plastering the | |||
| top of a parapetted pent roof / Positions of the edge boards | |||
| for plastering openings | |||
| FLOOR CONSTRUCTION 241 | |||
| - Sequence of operations for one-course work / Verandah floors | |||
| STAIRS 249 | |||
| - Requirements | |||
| FORMWORK 251 | |||
| - Formwork for coping / Formwork for pillars / Formwork for | |||
| slabs / General hints for formwork | |||
| REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS 255 | |||
| - Construction | |||
| HANGING DOORS AND WINDOWS | |||
| - Hanging a door with butt hinges | |||
| LOCKS AND FITTINGS | |||
| - Mortice lock / Rim lock | |||
| CEILINGS | |||
| - Construction, parts and sizes of plywood ceilings | |||
| PAINTING | |||
| - Preparation of surfaces for painting / How to paint / How to | |||
| apply timber preservatives | |||
| APPENDIX | |||
| WATER PURIFICATION | |||
| - Small water filter / Large water filter | |||
| HAND-DUG WELLS | |||
| - Lining wells / Tools and materials needed / Construction | |||
| GRAIN STORAGE SILO | |||
| - Construction of a silo / Using the silo / Circular masonry | |||
| work / Sequence of operations | |||
| PIT LATRINE | |||
| - Capacity / Location / Design and construction of the squatting | |||
| slab / Construction / Toilet room / Toilet partitions / | |||
| Permanent latrine | |||
| BUCKET LATRINE | |||
| AQUA PRIVY SYSTEMS | |||
| SOAKAWAYS | |||
| MANHOLES | |||
| SEPTIC TANKS |
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