Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-01-23


may be used If soidly backed with brick or concrete
AL tue notes when not in USE shall be closed with
tght-fitting metal covers.
Section II. Wooden beams separated from masonry
chimneys No wooden beams or iosts shall be placed
within two inches of the outside face of chimney or ue
whether the same be for smoke or any other purpose
No woodwork shall be within four inches of the back
wall of any fireplace.
All spaces between the chimney and the wooden
beams shall be sodly filled with mortar mineral wool
or other incombustble material
The header beam, carrying the tail beams Of floor
and supporting the trimmer arch in front of fireplace
shall be not less than 20 inches from the chimney breast
No wooden Turing or studding shall be placed
against any chimney the plasterng shall be directly on
the masonry, or on metal lathing.
Woodwork fastened to plaster, which is against the
masonry of chimney, shall have layer of asbestos
board at least nch thick placed between the woodwork
Section %. Smoke pipes: No smoke pipe shall be
within nine inches of any woodwork any wooden lah
and plaster partition, or ceiling
Where smoke pipes pass through wooden lath and
plaster partition, they shall be guarded by galvanized
iron ventilated himbes built in at least eight inches
of brickwork or other incombustible material
No smoke pipe shall pass through any floor or COM
bustble roof Of any building
Section go Hot air pipes and registers: All heater
pipes from hot air furnaces where passing through COM
bsble partitions, floors, must be doubled tin pipes
with at least one inch air space between them Horizon
tai hot air pipes leading from furnace shall be not less
than six inches from any woodwork unless the woodwork
be covered with fitting tin, the pipe be covered
least corrugated aSDeSLOS which IaI
ter case the distance from the woodwork may be reduced
to not less than three inches.
No hot air pipe shall be placed in wooden stud par
tion or any wooden ncosure unless it be at least eight
feet horizontal distance from the furnace Hot air pipes
contained in combustible partitions shall be placed inside
another pipe arranged to maintain pinch air space be-
tween the two all Sides be securely covered with
inch Of corrugated asbestos Neither the outer pipe
nor the covering shall be within inch OF wooden stud
ding and no wooden ath shall be used to cover the pOr
ton of the partition in which the hot air pipe line IS To-
Gated Hot air pipes in closets shall be doubled with
space of at least one inch between them on all sides
Every hot air furnace shall have at least one register
without valve or louVres
register located ogef brick furnace shall be sup
ported by brick shaft built up from the cover OF the hot
air chamber: said shaft shall be lined with metal pipe
and no woodwork shall be within three inches OF the outer
face of the shaft.
register box placed in the floor portable fur
mace shall have open space around u q not less a
four inches on all Sides and be supported by an incon
bustible border.
Hot air registers placed in any woodwork o. COM
bustibe floors shall be surrounded with borders OF IN
combustble material not less than Two lhches Wue ~
curely set in place.
The register boxes shall be Of metal and be double,
the distance between the two shall be not less than one
inch or they may be single covered with asbestos not
less than "a Inch in thickness and II all WOODWORK With
in two inches be covered With TIM
Cold air ducts for hot-air furnaces shall be made q
Iincombustibe material
Section go Steam and hot water pipes: No steam
or hot water pipe shall be within inch Of any wood
work Every steam hot water pipe passing through
combustible floors ceilings wooden ath and pIa
ter partitions shall be protected by metal tube one men
larger in diameter than the pipe and be provided with
metal cap All wooden boxes, castings ncosng steam
or hot water heating pipes wooden boxes or casing
steam or hot water heating pipes wooden covers 70 re-
cesses in walls in which steam or hot water heating pipes
are placed shall be lined with metal.
Section 81. Dry rooms: No combushbe material
shall be permitted in the construction of any dry room
hereafter erected in which temperature of 125 degrees
Fahrenheit or over may exist temperature under I25
degrees Fahrenheit be used the dry room may be con-
stucted of wood but it shall be lined throughout with
1s-inch asbestos, covered with sheet metal
IF windows are placed in walls or ceilings OF dry
rooms they shall be of wired glass set in fixed ncombus