. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. AUGUST: FOURTH WEEK 2IS Material Required for a 20 x lo Lean-to House Let us figure out just what is needed for a lean-to house, twenty feet long and approximately ten wide. Suppose we can get 7 feet of headroom on the wall against which we wish to build. Then we can figure on a height of four feet for the front wall, which will require 6-foot posts, as they should be set at least two feet into the soil. For the front wall then we will
. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. AUGUST: FOURTH WEEK 2IS Material Required for a 20 x lo Lean-to House Let us figure out just what is needed for a lean-to house, twenty feet long and approximately ten wide. Suppose we can get 7 feet of headroom on the wall against which we wish to build. Then we can figure on a height of four feet for the front wall, which will require 6-foot posts, as they should be set at least two feet into the soil. For the front wall then we will require five 6-foot posts; double boarding enough to go from a foot below the surface to 2j^ feet up the posts (twice 33^2 feet x 20 feet), or 140 feet;. Ground plan of 10 x 20 lean-to house. 20 feet each of 2 x 4" eave-plate and 2 x 6" sill; and ten lights of 16 x 24" double-thick glass. For the ends there will be required 4 9-foot posts; approximately the same amount of boarding as for the front wall; 20 feet of 2 x 4" sill; 50 feet of "side bars" (to hold the glass); and 60 square feet of glass. It is usually possible to pick up a secondhand door of some local contractor, at a very low price; or one may readily be constructed of boards and roofing paper or shin- gles. For the roof there will be required 20 feet of ridge, 13 lo-foot sash bars, 2 lo-foot end bars; and 3 ventilating sash. A little may be saved on the ridge by having it sawed in two vertically, as it will support the sash bars just as well and fit more snugly against the side of the house. Get the style of sash bars known as "drip" bars—which means that they do not drip! If you get the ventilating sash made the right size you can easily put the glass in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the orig
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