. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . nt decomposition, andan ice fruit-house to secure this benefit was invented by Mr. Parkersome years ago, a section of which we give at Fig. 240. It is built ofwood, and the space between the outside and inside linings is filledwith sawdust, or some other non-conductor. The ice-chamber isbelow the floor, and this floor is not a close-boarded, but an open-battened one. At the top of th
. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . nt decomposition, andan ice fruit-house to secure this benefit was invented by Mr. Parkersome years ago, a section of which we give at Fig. 240. It is built ofwood, and the space between the outside and inside linings is filledwith sawdust, or some other non-conductor. The ice-chamber isbelow the floor, and this floor is not a close-boarded, but an open-battened one. At the top of the house, and forming a Y-shapedceiling, is a double inclined floor, and under this is a wire screen, aspace being maintained between the screen and the floor. On thehighest part of this upper floor sits a narrow piece of flooring, with up-right sides, and holes or traps occasionally formed in the same, throughwhich the fruit is let down and hauled up again. Ice is, moreover,packed on the top of this upper floor. The only extra care requiredto be taken is, not to open the trap-doors in the gable passage withoutpreviously closing the outside door, which admits the fruit-man. Continental Ice Home, &c. 219. 2 43 At Fig. 241 may be noticed an ice-house which is said to be muchappreciated on the Continent. Several sleepers, resting upon a well-rammed bed of tan or coal-dust, support several planks crossed abovethem, but with sufficient spaces between for the water to run standards are about four inches square, and form the framework,and these are cased inside and outside with oak planks. A quantityof charcoal powder is well pressed down between the studding-,and a straw lining1 is also secured to the inside boarding of the house,as shown. A second wall is then built around this structure, whichis also lined outside and inside with oak planking, and similarlystuffed with powdered charcoal. The entrance is at the roof, and leadsto a passage with two doors, the inner one being s
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