The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-04

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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
ings, the said wall shall be increased four
inches in thickness for every ten per cent.
or fraction thereof, of flue or opening area in
excess OF .twenty-4y Sscg per cent.
Sec. AZ. No recess for water, sewer or other
pipes shall be made in any wall more than
around said pipes shall be filled up with
solid masonry for the space of one foot at the
HEIGHT OF BASEMENT AND UPPER
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-
rnent hereafter built shall be considered hab-
at least eight feet six inches in height in
CEILINGS OF EASEMENTS.
Sec. 40. Ceilings in Easements or cellars in
all buildings shall be lathed with wire lath-
ing and ~plastered three coats with fre-proof
material, approved of by the Inspector of
WOODEN BEANS.
Sec. so. All wooden beams shall be trim
med away from the fiues whether the same
be a smoke, air or any other fue, the trim
mer to be at least eight inches from the in
side face of a fue, 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 corbeled 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
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 bridgings and
Each tier of beams shall be anchored to the
side, front, rear or party walls at intervals
Of not more than eight feet apart, with good,
strong wrought iron anchors. The ends of
all beams resting on iron girders shall be but
ted together, to end with wrought, iron straps.
inches, and be we'll spiked or polted together
Sec. 81. Every pier and wall, front or rear,
shall be we'll 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 all frame buildings
over two stories in height, unless balloon
Frame, shall not be less than four inches by
srRENcrH5 or FLOORS LOO !. AND IE;s,.n
strength in all their parts to carry the fol-
lowing superlmposed loads, in addition to the
weight of the materials Of which ethey are
composed, viz, per square foot.
Dwellings, tenement houses, lodging. houses,
APP rtnent houses and hotels, 70 pounds loads,
On office buildings, 70 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 sehos4Ss 800 - 81
pounds. floor and roof
Floors of warehouses and storage houses
shall be proportioned Z Ae lesd they ar q
carry.
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. 53. The walls and skeleton frame work
of every building during the erection or al
~teratlon thereof, shall be strongly braced from
the beams of every story and when required
sbalI also be braced from the outside until
the building is enclosed. In no case shall any
wall or walls Of any building be earned up
wall except by permission from the Inspector
OF buiiain1 TEMPORARY SUPPORTS.
sec. 81. Every temporary support placed un-
der any structure wall, girder or beam during
Of any building or structure, or any part there
of, shall be of sufficient strength to safely
carry the load to d ss PlsMfSes thereon.
seeN rs. 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 shall
be SO constructed as may be approved by the
Insneetor al Buildings. Iron posts or columns,
with one or more open sides or backs, shall
have solid iron plates on top of each, tonpre7
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them. from one story to another; except where
pierced for the passage of pipes. All cost iron,
their bearings faced smooth and straight angles
to the axis of the columns, and when one
cosumn 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
post caps.
Sec. So. Cast iron used in the shape Of nntels
or brackets shall be so proportioned that the
compression stress upon the same shall not ex-
ceed 1S, 500 pounds per square inch, and that
the tensil stress shall not exceed 5000 pounds
per square inch.
See. 81. All Orders, beams, brackets and
trusses, made Of steel, shall be so proportioned
that the maximum fibre stress will not exceed
5000 pounds per square inch, or that, If made
of iron. the maximum fibre stress shall not eS-
coed IL. 200 pounds per square inch.
TANKS ON ROOFS.
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 five hundred gallons OF water, for
IRE protection or other purposes, such person