Identifier: woodworkingforbe00whee (find matches)
Title: Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, Charles G. (Charles Gardner), 1855-1946
Subjects: Carpentry Woodwork
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d by their neat, trim, inviting appear-ance, and wishes to enter. Houses of this character can easily be made by two ormore boys working together; and by the united forces of anumber of boys a very attractive little village can be built(and much simple carpentry be learned at the same time),in which many pleasant hours can be spent. Such houses as these can be framed and put together Obtained through the courtesy of Mr. Charles H. Bradley, Superintendentof the admirable Farm School on Thomi)sons Island, in Boston Harbour,where this little village was built, 271 / - Wood-Workinjj- foi- P)c<iniicrs without difficulty by the methods already shown. It willnot add vcr\ much to the expense to have the parts of theframe which show on the inside of the house planed bymachine, and this will much improve the appearance of theinterior. Shinglinir the roofs, putting casing aiound thewindows and doors and at the corners of the houses, andclapboarding or shingling the sides, adds much to the at-
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tractiveness of such small structures, as you can see fromthe illustrations. The windows and casings you can buy ready-made, or thelatter you can make yourself. The doors and casings youcan also buy, or make. The door-casings and window-casings should be nailed in place before the sides are clap-boarded. The tops of these casings should always beprotected by strips of sheet lead, the upper edges of which Simple Summer Cottages ^n are slipped up under the clapboarding (Fig. 390a), thuscovering the crack where the casing joins the side of thebuilding and shedding the water—on the same principle asshown in Figs. 384 and 385. This is important, as the rainwill drive through such cracks, even thoughthey seem very tight. Tonguing and groovingcan be used in such cases, but flashing withlead is a simpler process. The same precau-tion should always be taken where roofs orattachments join a building in such a way asto expose a crack through which the watercan leak. Zinc, or even tin, can be u

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