Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-23

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doors. and stone and concrete
floor. To build it complete you
will have to bring out into the
woods six rolls of Induroid or Rubber
old roofing. costing ~ cents square
foot, 100 square feet to the roll; 500
running feet of dressed No. / south
ern pine. soft maple or hemlock, N
by TX inches; 8 yards of bobbinet or
gauze, yards OF s-ounce duck canvas,
and one-half sack Of Portland cement.
Not very heavy layout OF either
money or material say. $25 all told,
and yet it will give you a 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 SO 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 half-inch corrugated iron
fasteners, which are driven across the
joints with hammer, sinking them
flush 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 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- for the corners,
and two dozen three-inchS iron fiat
hinges for doors, windows and roof
panels. Both hinges and nails are
best galvanized
Having the IL panels to hand. the
next step will be to nail a strip Of
pine IA 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 of
each. In the same way the two ends
are assembled with strips Of pine
eight feet long, nailed to top and bot
tom Of two panels with a 2-foot door
space in between. They are now
ready to raise UP, but first founda-
ton must be prepared, and the SIM
plest thing in the woods is to drive.
in four 3-inch stakes about three feet
long around all four sides, having two
stakes at each corner. Saw them all
OFF fiat to string run all around and
leveled at. 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 the
corners stanch and tight, three cleats
should be nailed to one Of the panels,
giving something for the hooks to pull
against. There will De cracks at the
corners and joints. and to protect
these from the weather and at the
same time guard against the inevita-
BILE warping of the joist in the wealth
er, you had best hunt up straight 4
inch spruce or cedar saplings and fiat
ten the backs true and set them up in
front of the cracks, securing the pam
els to them with nails driven from the
inside. The roof panels come next.
16 feet long by approximately 36
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 II hinges, four
at each joint, and the frame Is dag
onaled as With the wall panels. To
get the roof on, lift it up on the walls,
raise the ridge until about a foot OF
cave overhargs 1T tho sides. and nail
light saplings to the ends to hold the
gambrel in its proper position while