Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1957-01-17

position chimneys may be used
without special approval from
the Building Inspector or the
zoning board.
No loads on a chimney shall
support any other than its own.
Every smoke pipe connecting
a firebox or combustion chamber
with chimney or smokeStack
shall be of metal, sloping slight
ly upward from the combustion
chamber into the chimney.
No more than two (2) flue
Innings shall be enclosed in a
single chimney unless separated
by not less than four az inches
of masonry or reinforced con-
crete bonded into the chimney
walls.
No combuStible material shall
be nearer to an inlet opening
into a chimney than six (6)
inches.
All chimneys shall have fire
clay flue Innings or equal from
below the smoke pipe, or in
the case of fireplaces, from the
throat of the masonry to four
"a inches above the top of the
masonry with sloping cement
around all sides of the flue
lining to the outer edges of the
masonry to shed water. These
Innings shall be continuous from
the bottom to the top of the
chimney.
Clearance from FireplaceS.
The incombustible hearth in
front of the fireplace shall rest
upon an incombustible support
so that no fuel from the fire
place can come in contact with
woodwork or other combustible
below the room floor.
All combuStible header and
trimmer beams shall be placed
not less than four ~ inches
from the face and backs of
fireplaces and the spaces shall
be fire-stopped. Wood or other
combustible trim shall not be
installed less than six (6) inches
on each side of the fireplace
opening. No combustible mater
ial shall be located nearer than
twelve (12) inches above the
fireplace opening.
Section 35. RESIDENCES ON
CONCRETE SLAB FLOORS: ::
One floor dwellings with no
basement shall be supported as
follows:
/. A masonry wall, all around
the outside of the structure
eight 80 inches wide shall be
built to rest on a poured con-
crete footing sixteen (16) inches
wide by eight 81 thick. The
bottom of the footing shall be
thirty-six 1861 inches below the
natural grade. Masonry shall
extend eight 90 inches above
the grade.
2. Over the area within the
walls, there shall be four az
inches of compacted fill.
3. Above the fill there shall
be placed four a. inches OF
gravel or crushed stone one 1)
inch or more in size, we'll lev
eled and tamped down.
4. On top of this gravel shall
be laid a water barrier (Sisal
kraft or equaD with four al
inch overlap at the joints.
S. Finally, four "a inches o.
: reinforced concrete shall bt
poured to form the floor itself
The reinforced cement shall be
: of No. 6 Standard Wire Gauge
steel mesh welded at six C.,
= inch intervals, the strips to bt
strongly wired together. This
> mesh shall be placed one Il,
| inch above the bottom of the
J concrete but no lower.
) If the ground underneath thu
, gravel is not quite solid to pre-
/ vent the concrete floor from
t settling, small six (6 incl
: round piers of solid concrete
: shall be laid at intervals o
six 90 feet, at right angles
before the gravel and concrete
: are placed.
S Section SO. FRAMING REG
ULATTONS:
r All lumber sizes are nomina
1 (American Lumber StandardS)
= No wood floor beam, roo
. beam, joist, rafter, stud or fran
ing lumber shall be less thai
: two (2) inches in thickness
t (NominaD
q All framing of residences
floor and ceiling joiStS, stud
and rafters shall be not NOR,
S than sixteen (l6) inches OF
!. centerS.
v Private frame garages ma,
have studs and rafterS with no
more than twenty-four (24 inch
t eS on centers.
The above ground area shal
be covered with 8" sand, gravel
o or other approved material, on
: layer of vapor barrier, 2" Q
n concrete, float finish, a min
: imum of one ID floor drail
e shall be provided with floo
sloping TO drain. Crawl space
under first floor ioists and tn
: ground below, shall be not les
than thirty-Six 1851 inches from
the bottom of the floor joists
u Section 81. BRIDGING:
n In all floor, attic, and fla
II roof joiSt framing, there shal
+ be not less than one line c
y bridging for each eight 90 fee
e of span and the bridging shal
e be of not less than /" x 8