Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-04-01
THURSDAY, APRIL l, 1852.

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Hence the builders first attention should
be directed 10 the place of his mortar-bed
aud the essential point here is so to locate il
that the material lime. gravel. stone, and
water---can be empied from the wagon or
cart close along side ofthe mortar-bed aud
also, so that the stuff can be readily wheel
ed IN barrows from this mnrtar-bed to the
wall In general IL should be placed inside
of the house, and near an outside door or
window, so that the team can deposit it inst
outside of the house 10 be shoyeled or wheel
ed through the window into the bed.
Ia general, also one of the lower rooms
can easily be made moiiar-bed 10y simply
LAYING down some boards level, so that the
shovel will work easily upon them. In MA
ny cases the walls ofthe room ~ which the
neriar-bed is, can be made to serve the
purpose of sde-boards, aud the doors aud
windows of the room serve to convey the
materials to aud from the bed. The bull
der can hardly bestow thought, invention
conirivance, aud adoption Of ways and
means to ends, to better advantage than ~
the placing and arrangements of the NOR
tar-bed, SO that the materials shall work ca.
silly 10 aud from H. ne
A second point of prynd house where
should he w9touug, let that be the first thing
done, even before the foundation Of the
house is laid, and the more easy the con-
yeyancc of the wafer to The bed the better
for large quantities Of 1t will be wanted /,
hence If the water cannot be brought d.
recly to the bed from the pump in troughs,
let barrels he stationed Just inside or out
side the bed, aud easy OF access, both to
I'll aud empty If the water isto be brough,
from some distance m barrels--noi a very
unhandy way of getting Iilet barrels en-
ough Re stationed near the bed TO hold a
load, and bring al once M another set oi
barrels as much as eau well be drawn. But
see TO 1t that d supply Is always GA hand.
The next point OF consideration should
be the place for depositing the gravel. Il
matters less whether the lime Is handy TO
the he'd or not, for as bui htle Is required
1t makes hlte difference but since the
great staple Of the wall Is gravel aud stones,
arrange II SO that they eau be easily con-
veyed into the bed.
la many localities the cellar itself vail
furnish the very gravel required FOR the wall
50 that all you have To do Is to shovel II cut
of the cellar into the mortar-bed, thence
into the walls. In such localities the mode
OF procedure is this. FIRST take off the
top soil and dirt, such as is not fit 10 be in-
corporated into the wall, leaving your grav-
cl as clean as nav be. Then Dig trench
the width you wish your foundation wall,
aud as low down rs you wish your cellar,
perhaps a little lower, SO as Ia keep out rats,
and make 1t a few inches wider below the
bottom of the cellar than above, so that
when rats would Dig ia or out, they will iind
a hard substance To prevent them. They
naturally Oegiu Ciusc "a unc wall. ,hat ~
the wall IS wider below the cellar bottom
Than above, they Will never work through
Observe, too, that tins extra wIdih should
be ou both sides. A few hours labor here
will forever keep rats out Of YOUR building.
II your gravel or Dalerial will enable you
to dig your trench the shape you have your
wall, all YOU have tn do Is To Dag out the
loose dirt. and throw ia the compound To b.
described hereafter using cement instead
of lime. BuI ST your soil or gravel caves
"a, YOU will be obliged to Dig a lrench wide
enough To allow boards to he put up for box
e. IN the manner to be shown hereafter.
Meanwhile, leave the inside part O
your cellar undug, aud as you wish gray'
e, shovel IT right uuI of your cellar rooms
into mortar-beds. Thus YOU will dig YOU
cellar as you build your house, " killing
Two birds with one stone, and making one
hand wash the other" besides saving all The
carlng of material, aud where such a "a
ci'ily for building exists, 1t may be cheaper
than was stated IN our last arIicle.
We have said that the morlar-bed shoult
be placed where the material could be 60
from II to the wall haudily. The wheel
barrow is the best means for accomplishing
this end and Two or three barrows, will b'
found to save ia the structure OF common
house enough to pay for themselves serera
times over, because stuff can be wheeled ~
much easier than backed To render thi
wheeling easy, you require tracks aud scat
folds of board on which to pass and repass
and found II most important point 10 ~
permanent scatinlds, instead of rigging
scafold for one side, then taking 1t dow
and moving to another, as at first did
Hence 1t will be well, generally, rig you
scaifnlds on the inside, though the outsld
will DO, provided your moriar-bed IS outside
the only difference being that you viii hav
to 90 much farther with the barrow on tn
outside of the house than il inside. BE
sides, YOU require 10 have the wheel-ha
) rows pass each other, aud by mixing tb
stuff inside, and having sci OF scaiiudn
around the outer wall, the barrows may pa'
and repass easily. If your walls are NJ
more than ten feet high, you may even dr
pense with scahulds entirely, because ma
? stands some SIX feet, aud can without muc
trouble shovel four feet above his head. II
will however, save considerable time on ii
upper part of the wall by having the sea
folding, aud even on the lower, because /
o first placing the boxes, aud then erectln
4 the scatfold, he can wheel his stuff on Il
scaliold and dump it from the barrow rlgl
into the boxes, thus empllng barrow IN
second, aud save shoyelIng. These sea
folds are easily made floor timbers yo
must have, and by getting them on II
ground 10 begin with the main materials f
scafiolds is ready. All you now require
y horses, (benches, which are made aud pl
ced some twelve or fifteen feet apart. B
with these suggestions the reader will :
5, his own Causality al work to conlrIye wh'
s. ever labor-saylng Improvements he can
I My own experience Is, that these scatiul
ii will many times over save the cost Of the