. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 308—FRONT VIEW OF COMBINED OVEN AND SMOKE HOUSE placed upon them. Dry sand is thrown upon the mortar,and the whole bed is beaten with a mallet until it is madehard and compact. Dry sifted coal, or wood ashes, orsand, is then laid upon this bed to a depth of six inchesand smoothed dowm. Upon this non-conducting floorthe oven hearth is placed. The best, smoothest and hard- mn BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS est bricks are chosen for this. The bricks are laid veryevenly and closely together, with mortar, in which a goodproportion of wood ashes is mingled. When the
. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 308—FRONT VIEW OF COMBINED OVEN AND SMOKE HOUSE placed upon them. Dry sand is thrown upon the mortar,and the whole bed is beaten with a mallet until it is madehard and compact. Dry sifted coal, or wood ashes, orsand, is then laid upon this bed to a depth of six inchesand smoothed dowm. Upon this non-conducting floorthe oven hearth is placed. The best, smoothest and hard- mn BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS est bricks are chosen for this. The bricks are laid veryevenly and closely together, with mortar, in which a goodproportion of wood ashes is mingled. When the floor issecured the walls are built in the same manner with bricksplaced endwise from the inside to the outside. Whenthe walls are about a foot high the frames for the centerare fixed in their proper places. These are cut out of. REAR VIEW OF COMBINED OVEN AND SMOKE HOUSE common inch boards of the shape to fit the arched rise of the arch is about eight inches, giving a totalhight in the middle of the oven of twenty inclies, andtwelve inches at the sides. The boards should be cut intwo through the middle and lightly tacked together, sothat they can be readily knocked apart and removed from COMBINED SMOKE HOUSE AND OVEN 309 the door wlien the arch is dry. The wall around the ovenand the arched roof should be well bound together, andbrick work placed around the outside of the top of thearch, so as to make the connection between the walls andarch firm and solid. The inside of the oven will thenconsist of a solid nine-inch wall of brick laid with theends toward the middle of the oven, or nearly so. Thiswill serve to retain the heat a long time, and will make ayery serviceable oven. The outside wall should be carried
Size: 1642px × 1522px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectarchitecturedomestic
