The acme magazine . geenough to admit plenty of light and seldom receive as much atten-tion when building as they should. Thecellar wall is one of the most impor-tant features of the house, and yet weso often see walls thrown together with badly shaped stone and very poor sandymortar. You can dig the mortar outfrom between the stone of some wallswith a stick, and a green one at each heavy rain, water from thesaturated ground percolates throughsuch a wall and the cellar remains dampduring the greater part of the the wall extends above grade ma-sons usually take
The acme magazine . geenough to admit plenty of light and seldom receive as much atten-tion when building as they should. Thecellar wall is one of the most impor-tant features of the house, and yet weso often see walls thrown together with badly shaped stone and very poor sandymortar. You can dig the mortar outfrom between the stone of some wallswith a stick, and a green one at each heavy rain, water from thesaturated ground percolates throughsuch a wall and the cellar remains dampduring the greater part of the the wall extends above grade ma-sons usually take a little more pains withit, especially in pointing the outside, butthe stone work that is covered up veryoften is poor enough. It is worth allthe extra cost of carrying the wall wellup above the ground just to get a bet-ter quality of work and to secure a bet-ter foundation for the house, but thereis a great deal more to a cellar thanthis. In order to keep the frost out of thecellar in the winter it has been custom-. 76 LOW COST HOMES. ary to put nearly the whole cellar under-ground, but a good, thick wall, wellmade, will turn frost pretty well, espe-cially when the sills are well embeddedin soft plaster in such a way as to make
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