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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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