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 . the drawings bydescribing those points which cannot be readily ex-pressed by diagrams or figures. It matters little whether the specification has anyliterary quality, any more than it should deal fully,concisely, and
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 . the drawings bydescribing those points which cannot be readily ex-pressed by diagrams or figures. It matters little whether the specification has anyliterary quality, any more than it should deal fully,concisely, and clearly with each part of the work, inproper sequence, which is to say, that it shall commencewith the first part of the work, such as the excavation,or general conditions preliminary to the excavation,and pursue the other branches of the work as theywould be performed in practice. Remarks referringfirst to one subject and then to another, without rela- PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 17 tionship, should be avoided. They tend to confuserather than to elucidate. If there is to be a general contractor and under himsub-contractors, then it shall be one of the functions ofthe specification to define the relations between thedifferent parties, the scope of each class of work, theconditions under which the work is to be done, and thematerials employed for every purpose. Specification:. -m 11 Fig. 3.—Ideal hog house arranged to secure the maximum amount of sunlight. should never impose conditions on the contractor thatare likely to involve him in unlooked-for expense, andthey should not be written in a spirit that tends to de-stroy a feeling of co-operation. The contractor, likeourselves, is a human being and has a living to is rare that a satisfactory result can be obtained froma contractor who is losing money on the writing specifications words should be used in 18 THE FARMER HIS OWN BUILDER their most common sense, and the language should beintelligible to all persons co
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