The farmer his own builder : a guide and reference book for the construction of dwellings, barns and other farm buildings, together with their utilities, describing reliable methods, offering practical suggestions, presenting numerous details and formulas, and explaining simple rules for estimating the labor and materials required With special reference to concrete and carpentry . plan to have this great amount ofwater pass into the cesspool or sewage disposal plant, youshould lead it away from the bottoms of the rain-waterconductors by means of agricultural tile or sewer pipeto dry wells. The
The farmer his own builder : a guide and reference book for the construction of dwellings, barns and other farm buildings, together with their utilities, describing reliable methods, offering practical suggestions, presenting numerous details and formulas, and explaining simple rules for estimating the labor and materials required With special reference to concrete and carpentry . plan to have this great amount ofwater pass into the cesspool or sewage disposal plant, youshould lead it away from the bottoms of the rain-waterconductors by means of agricultural tile or sewer pipeto dry wells. These are excavations some 5 or 6 feetin diameter, and as deep as the case requires, with wallsbuilt of dry rubble masonry—that is, stonework laidwithout mortar, through which water quickly type of dry well is built after the manner of aFrench drain, which consists of an excavation filled withloose stones, which are piled around the end of the in-flowing drain pipe and the whole covered with grading. FOUNDATIONS 77 The point that I wish to bring out—these same drywells or French drains can be utilized to dispose of thewater from basement floors, areaways, and other sourceswhere the water is of a comparatively clear must not be used for sewage. And the drainagefrom stable floors should be collected in a special cisternor watertight manure 4- Tl LE Fig. 32.—Method of safeguarding cellar walls against surface water. Another practical method for safeguarding cellarsagainst surface water, one that is employed by the fore-most architects and builders, is to create a French drainof broken stone at the bottom of the walls and footings,and to carry off the water in open-jointed terra-cottatile. The tile and stone are laid as soon as the walls arecompleted, and really constitute a part of the back-filling. If the stone is available on the premises, this 78 THE FARMER HIS OWN BUILDER method is quite economical, for the tile can be purchasedfor about
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