Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-09-06

AWNINGS
and porches over windows and
doors, and stone and concrete
moor. To build 1t complete you
VIII have to bring out into the
woods six rolls of Induroid or Rubber.
ola roofing. costing 25 cents a square
loot, 100 square feet to the roll: 500
running feet OF dressed No. l south
ern pine. soft maple or hemlock. IA
by 2hs In -Aea: s yards OF bobbinet or
gauze. yards OF S-ounce duck canvas
and one-half sack OF Portland cement
Not a very heavy layout of either
money or material. say. $25 all told.
and yet II Will give you n start for a
permanent bungalow that you can al.
ways come back to with increasing
affection. On arriving at your site.
the first thing TO do is to pitch your
tents. select the very best site your
ground affords for the shack. clear
a little space to make panels in. and
saw your pine up into the right
lengths. You will need IL panels z
feet by 36 inches for the sides. and
four panels 16 feet by SO inches for
the roof. Get out the walls first. They
are quickly and strongly Joined by
driving In halt-inch corrugated iron
fasteners, which are driven across the
joints with a hammer. sinking them
Hush with the surface Of the wood In
this way the whole IL can be quickly
and strongly knocked together. Tack
the roofing material to the backs OF
the panels as fast as completed. as
they are very wobbly and weak side
ways without the material. This lat
ter Is gray In color with a leathery
surface, and In each roll comes the
needful nails and cement for Joints.
TIN caps, etc. Space the nails about
three inches and run the cement
ahead as you nail The hardwar, for
this house will be two dozen stout
iron hooks and-eyes for the corners,
and two dozen threeinch iron fiat
hinges for doors. windows and roof
panels. Both hinges and nails are
best galvanized.
Having the II panels To hand the
next step will be to ROLL a strjp or
pine "a feet long to the top and bot.
tom of each four panels. making two
sides Of four panels each. with a 2.
foot window space in the middle n,
each. In the same way the two ends
are assembled with strips of pine
eight feet long. nailed TO top and bot.
'om OF two panels with a 2.foot door
space in between. They are now
ready to raise up. but first n fouuda.
ton must be prepared. and the sim.
plest thing in the woods is to drive
In four 3-inch stakes about three feat
long around all four sides. having two
stakes at each corner Saw them all
on fiat TO string run all around and
leveied az. say eight inches above the
soil. On these the panels can be set
up and hooked at the corners. nails
being driven down through the foot.
strip into the posts To make tho
corners stanch and tight. three cleats
should be nailed to one Of the panels
giving something for the hooks TO null
against There will be cracks al the
corners and Joints. and 10 protect
these from the weather and at the
same time guard against the inevita.
bic warpng Of the ioist I'm the wealth
er. you had best hunt ND straight A.
inch spruce or cedar sapl!ngs and fat.
ten the backs true and set them up in
front Of the cracks. securing the pan.
els 90 ifem with nails driven from tho
inside. The roof panels come next.
16 feet long by approximately 80
inches wide. lap being left over as
shown In the detail OF the roof.joints.
so as TO leave no place for the rain
to work In. There are ~ hinges. four
at each Joint. and the frame Is dag.
onaled as with the wall panels. To
get the roof on. lift Il up on the walls.
raise the ridge until about a foot OF
cave overhangs at the sides. and nail
light saplings to the ends to hold the
gambrel IN its proper position while