Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1957-01-10


zoning board.
No loads on a chimney shall
support any other than its own.
Every smoke pipe connecting
a fireboX or combustion chamber
with a 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 t6)
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 fiji &
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 az 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 90 inches wide shall be
built to rest on a poured con.
crete footing sixteen C16) inches
wide by eight 81 thick. The
bottom of the footing shall be
thirty-six 1867 inches below the
natural grade. Masonry shall
extend eight 81 inches above
the grade.
2. Over the area within the
walls, there shall be four "a
inches of compacted fill.
8. Above the fill there shall
be placed four a. inches Of
gravel or crushed stone one (1)
inch or more in size, well lev
eled and tamped down.
4. On top of this gravel shall
be laid a water barrier (Sisal
kraft or equaD with four a.
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 bt
of No. Standard Wire Gauge
steel mesh welded at six (6,
inch intervals, the strips to be
strongly wired together. Thi.
mesh shall be placed one q,
inch above the bottom Of the
concrete but no lower.
If the ground underneath the
gravel is not quite solid to pre-
vent the concrete floor from
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.
Section So. FRAMING REG
ULATIONS:
All lumber sizes are nomina
american Lumber Standards
No wood floor beam, roo
beam, joist, rafter, stud or fran
ing lumber shall be less thar
two (2) inches in thickness
(NominaD
All framing of residences
floor and ceiling joists, stud!
and rafterS shall be not more
than sixteen (l6) inches OF
centers.
Private frame garages may
have studs and rafters with no
more than twenty-four (24) inch
eS on centerS.
The above ground area shall
be covered with 81 sand, gravel
or other approved material, ont
layer of vapor barrier, 2" o
concrete, float finish, a min
imum of one Cd floor drain
shall be provided with flool
sloping to drain. Crawl spaces
under first floor joists and tn,
ground below, shall be not les
than thirty-six 1861 inches from
the bottom of the floor joiSts
Section 81. BRIDGING:
In all floor, attic, and fla
roof joist framing, there shall
be not less than one line O
bridging for each eight 90 fee
of span and the bridging Shal
be of not less than /" x g.
lumber, or approved meta
bridging double nailed at eacl
end. Solid bridging may also b.
used with two (2) inch thick
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