Montpelier examiner., 1911-02-10
Floor Plan OF Milk House.

This milk house is 14x20 feet in size
and eight feet high to the caves. The
roof has a two-foot rise to the peak
and is also built of concrete.
The following is description of the
material used and method of erecting
this building. The owner did all the
excavating and furnished the gravel
for the concrete, and the lumber
used for the concrete forms and scat
fold, writes R. G. Angevine in Hoard's
DairymHn. The contractor furnished
the cement. the doors and windows
complete, the steel for reinforcing
the concrete and performed all the
other labor of construction not men
toned as furnished by the owner.
There was detailed contract signed
by both parties which was carried out
to the satisfaction of the parties con-
cerned. Such contract will almost
entirely guarantee well-carried out
job of work. The work was carried
on as follows:
The ground was staked off in the
proper manner for the location of the
building, and leveled by removing the
sod to a point four inches below the
finished floor line. The trenches were
dug IA inches wide, 80 inches deep
and at the bottom were cut out wider,
making them about 28 inches wide for
a footing. A cross trench for foot.
ing for a partition was 16 inches wide
and IL inches deep. These trenches
were filled with concrete, mixed one
part cement to eight parts gravel, and
to the proper grade line The walls
above grade line were hollow, con
structed with 24-inch walls SPACED
three inches apart and tied together
at intervals by steel ties made of
three-eighths inch rods. These walls
were cast monolythic by the use of
set of forms "a inches high, reaching
entirely around the building. These
forms were set In place and held In
place by bolts and guides, and then
filled with concrete, which was mixed
quite wet and in proportion of one of
cement to six of gravel. These forms
were raised and filled each day till
the desired height was reached.
There were strands of No. gage
wire put in the concrete once every
foot around, and around the building
with an extra allowance over windows
and doors. Also at the top of the wall
q double strand Of wire was put in all
the way around in each four-incb
wall. The window and door frames
were set in place in the forms at
their proper locations and the con-
crete placed snugly about them.
When the side walls and partition
wall had been finished, false wooden
roof of the proper design was put on
with a corniee projection, but all was
constructed In such a way as to he
taken out entirely after concrete
roof had been put on and hardened.
Over this false work the reinforcing
steel was placed and wired together
to hold 1t in proper place and then
the whole thing covered with az
inches of concrete. mixed one to four.
and this was surfaced with a troweI
finish of rich mortar one-half inch
thick.
The reinforcing steel for this roof
consisted of three-eighth inch steel
rods 12 feet long which were spaced
eight inches apart and extended from
the caves up over the peak and they
were bent at each end to fit down
over the roof form. These rods were
crossed once each ten inches by No.
wire running lengthwise of the
roof and at each place of contact the
wire and rods were wired together
with broom wire.
A chimney having flue 8xS inches
and walls four inches thick was also
made in place with concrete The out
side of the walls were finished first
by rubbing them with rich cement
mortar put on with a wooden float
and then by a coat of cement wash
put on with a brush which made a
very pleasing finish as we'll as a wa
ter proof one. The inside walls were