Charlevoix county herald., 1911-02-11
Floor Plan of Milk House

This milk house is 14x20 feet In size
and eight feet high to the caves. Ihe
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 lumper
used for the concrete forms and scai-
fold, writes r. G. Angevine in Hoards S
Dairyman. 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 a contract Will almost
entirely guarantee a 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 20 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 2S inches wide for
a footing A cross trench for a foot
ing for 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 a
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
filed 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
a double strand of wire was put in al
the way around in each four-inct
wall. The window and door frames
were set in place in the forms al
their proper locations and the con
crete placed snugiy about ta,em.
When the side walls and partition
wall had been finished, a false wooder
roof of the proper design was put or
with corniee projection, but all was
constructed IN such way ass to he
taken o1t entirely sitter a concrete
roof had been put ON and hardened
Over this false work che reinforcing
steel was placed and wired together
to- hold It in proper place and then
the whole thing covered with 80
inches Of concrete. mixed one' to four
and this was surfaced with a trowel
finish OF rich mortar one.half inch
thick.
The reinforcing steel for this roof
consisted OF three-eighth. inch steel
rods IL feet long which were spaced
eight inches apart and extended from
the caves up over the peak and they
we're bent at each end to fit down
over the roof form. These rods were
crossed once each ten inches by No.
5 wire Mnning lengthwise of the
roof and at eSch place of contact the
wire and rods were wired together
with broom wire.
A chimney having a fiue SxS inches
md walls four INCHES thick was also
made In S.;.cs ,,ccs g:th concrete. The out
side OF the walls were snished first
by rubbing them with rich cement
mortar put on with a wooden float
and then by coat of cement wash
nut on with brush which made a
very pleasing finish as we'll as wa
tor proof one. The inside walls were
ali mastered smooth with rich cement
mortar finished perfectly smooth.
The building is divided into two
-ooms. one FIVE feet six inches by
,we,ve feet in size, contains the gaso
line engine. used to run cream sep
orator and churn and any other ma
, chinery needed. The water heater Il
. also in this room and 1t can also b'
q used 10 store needed supplies. The
I rest of the building is the milk room
: t2xf2 feet in size and in 1t is located
!. the machinery needed to properl,
a handle milk. In this case they maxi
;. butter and have a separator an'
rhurn and other needed articles II