The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-03

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II any horizontal section of any part of any
bearing wall in any building shows more than
twenty-five per cent. area Of fues and open
inches In thickness for every ten per cent,
or fraction thereof, of fue or opening area in
RECESS.
Sec. AZ. No recess for water, sewer or other
pipes shall be made in any wall more than
around said pipes shall be filed up with
solid masonry for the space of one foot at the
top and bottom of each story.
ROOMS.
Sec. 4S. The height of any basement used for
dwelling PURPOSES, or for sleeping apartments
to be not less than eight feet, and the height
Of ceiling Of same above grade to be not less
NO room in any dwelling, lodging or tene-
ment hereafter built shall be considered hab-
liable, or used as a habitation, unless it is
at least eight feet six inches in height in
CEILINGS OF EASEMENTS.
Sec. 49, Ceilings in Easements or cellars in
all buildings shall be lathed with wire lath-
ing and piastered three coats with f~re-proof
material, approved of by the Inspector OF
WOODED BEAMS
Sec. 50. All wooden beams shall be trim
med away from the fiues whether the same
mer to be at least eight inches from the in
side face of a nue, and the header two inches
from the outside face of the wall. Ends of all
wooden floor or roof beams shall enter the wall
to a depth of four inches, unless the wall is
properly corbeied out four inches, in which
case brick work is TO extend to top of beams.
The ends Of all beams shall be so shaped that
in case of any detection, or breaking, they
may fall out without doing much injury to
the brick vail All beams entering any stone
or brick wall, shall be splayed one-quarter
inch to one inch shorter at top edge
All wooden floor or roof beams shall be
properly bridged with cross bridging, and the
distance between bridging or b~ridgings and
wall shall not be more than eight feet.
Each tier of beams shall be anchored to the
side, front, rear or party walls at intervals
strong wrought iron anchors. The ends Of
all beams resting on iron girders shall be but
ted together, TO end with wrought iron straps.
They may lap each other at least twelve
inches, and be well spiked or bolted together
when Tapped.
shall be well anchored to the beams with
wrought iron anchors, which anchors shall
hook on the second beam. Floor or roof
not be less than three inches by eight inches.
Corner and centre posts Of al frame buildings
frame, shall not be less than four inches by
Yen STRENGTH OF FLOORS AND ROOFS.
Sec. 50. Floors shall be of sufficient
strength in all their parts to carry the fol-
weight Of the materials of which they are
composed, viz, per square foot:-
Dwellings. tenement houses, lodging houses,
apsrtment houses and hotels, 70 pounds loads,
On schoolhouses, rs pounds. floor and roof.
ON. office buildings. 20 pounds. floor and
On churches and theatres, so pounds, floor
On public halls. stores and factories, 100 to
$50 pounds, floor and roof.
On drill rooms and riding schools, 200 to ESQ
pounds, floor and roof.
Floors Of warehouses and storage houses
shall be proportional TO the load they are to
carry. Ia,
toned to bear safely thirty pounds upon every
superficial foot of their surface in addition TO
the weight Of the materials composing the
BRAcING OF WALLS AND SKELETON
FRAMES.
sec. So. The walls and skeleton frame work
of every building during the erection or al
teration thereof, shall be strongly braced from
the beams of every story and when required
shall also be hraced from the outside until
the building is enclosed. In no case shall any
wall or walls of any building be carried up
more than two stories in advance of any other
wall except by permission from the inspector
OF TEMPORARY
Sec. 81. Every temporary support placed UNI
der any structure wall. girder or beam during
Of any building or structure, or any part there
Of, shall be or sufficient strength TO safely
carry the load to e 3 P9sfSas thereon
Sec. IS. In all buildings hereafter erected or
altered, where any iron or steel column or
columns are used to support a wall or part
thereof. whether the same be an exterior or
interior wall. the said column or columns shah
Sc 50 constructed as may be approved by the
inspector Of buildings. Iron posts or columns,
with one or more open sides or backs, shall
have solid iron plates on top Of each. to pre-
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them, from one story to ~another; except where
pierced for the passage of pipes. All cost iron.
wrought iron and steel columns shall have
their bearings faced smooth and straight angles
to the axis Of the columns. and when one
column rests upon another column they shall
be securely bolted together. Wooden columns
supporting wooden girders and wooden floor
and roof beams, in all buildings more than two
stories high. shall have iron caps and base
plates not less than one inch thick. or iron
LINTELs N GIRDERs.
Sec. Sc. Cast iron used in the shape of lintels
or brackets shall be so proportional that the
compression stress upon the same shall not ex-
coed 10, 500 pounds per square inch, and that
the tensil stress shall not exceed 5000 pounds
per square inch.
Sec. 81. All girders, beams, brackets and
trusses, made of steel. shall be so proportioned
that the maximum hbre stress will not exceed
16. 600 pounds per square inch, or that. if made
of iron, the maximum fibre stress shall not ex-
coed Y, 900 pounds per square inch.
TANKS ON 0DFS
Sec. IS. Any person or persons placing water
tanks Of iron or other material on the roof of
any building, where said tanks are to hold
more than Ave hundred gallons OF water. for
Ore protection or other purposes, such person