Dustshaft.-Form where shown in corner of w.c.s doors to dustshaft, at a convenient height from floor, 14 inches wide and 18 inches high, hung to proper rebated frames and with black japanned knobs and button fastenings.

Coalboxes and Meatsafes.-To be as described for coalbox and closet on ground floor, but in the wall at back of upper division an opening is to be formed 9 inches square with proper rebated linings and filled in with perforated zinc.

GENERALLY TO HOUSE.

Roof over Sculleries.-The roof over new addition containing sculleries, &c., is to be a flat formed with joists 7 inches by 2 inches, 1-inch rough boarding, and No. 12 zinc laid with proper rolls, and well turned up against and into brickwork. Provide and fix 3-inch iron rain-water-pipe and head from this flat, properly connected with same and drain.

The new brickwork is to be carried up to a height of 15 inches above level of flat, and finished with a coping of tooled Yorkstone, 12 inches by 3 inches, weathered and throated.

Cisterns. The present cistern in front area is to be removed and re-fixed on this flat. Provide also adjacent to same a new cistern of similar description and capacity, and provide and fix all bearers and supports necessary to properly secure these cisterns. Lay on water to same from main with 1-inch lead supply-pipe with proper ballcocks and balls and standing wastes, utilising as far as possible the apparatus now in present cistern.

Window over Flat.—In the space of back wall of house between the zinc flat and the ceiling of second floor, cut out for and form a window 3 feet high and 4 feet wide, with 1-inch sash, hung on centres to proper rebated frame, and with proper lines, &c., for convenient opening and fastening of same.

MAKING GOOD.

All making good of work disturbed and damage occasioned by reason of these alterations, whether to carpentry, plastering, papering, painting, or otherwise, is to be properly performed, and all works are to be left clean and complete at the conclusion.

Painting.-Properly knot, prime, prepare and paint all new work usually painted, in four coats of good lead and oil colour, finishing in all cases so as to accord with the old work adjoining.

Plastering and Colouring, &c.-Lath, plaster, float, and set all new ceilings. Plaster, float, and set all new walls.

Whiten all new ceilings and soffits. Colour the walls of new sculleries.

Glazing.-Glaze all new lights not specified to be ground, with seconds Newcastle.

Papering.-Paper all new walls and partitions not specified to be coloured, and all parts damaged and disturbed by reason of these alterations, with paper similar to that of the old parts adjoining.

SPECIFICATION OF WORKS, additional to those described in foregoing Specification, necessary for the carrying out of the Additions and Alterations shown in Design C.'

OLD WORK TO BE REMOVED.

Take down and remove the present erection of wash-house, except in so far as the existing walls may be re-used in the new addition containing bedroom. Take down and remove the present copper and brick setting of same.

NEW DOORS AND WINDOWS.

Cut out for and form the new openings from present into new bedroom on each floor, and fit with jamb linings, door and furniture, to accord in every respect with other door in present bedroom in each case respectively.

Cut out for and form the new narrow window openings as shown, to light staircase, and fit with sash windows and frames of similar character, and finish, as far as may be, in same manner as present staircase windows to be removed.

The new doors from stairs into sculleries are not, in this design, to have glazed panels, but are, in other respects, to be as specified for design 'B.' The windows for new bedrooms are to be similar to those specified for sculleries.

EXCAVATION.

In addition to the excavation specified for design ‘B,' excavate

also for the addition of new bedroom on basement, to the depth of 1 foot below level of present basement floor.

Area.-Excavate also for the area shown outside new basement window, which area is to be formed of one-brickwork, coped with brick-on-edge, and rendered in cement.

NEW BRICKWORK FOR ADDITIONS OF BEDROOMS.

To be as described for sculleries.

Lintels.-Provide over all recesses shown in the walls lintels 4 inches thick to recesses not exceeding 4 feet in width, and 5 inches to those exceeding the full width of brickwork over, and having a bearing of 4 inches on pier at each end.

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Floors and Skirtings of new additions for bedrooms to be as before specified for sculleries.

ROOF OVER NEW ADDITION FOR BEDROOMS.

To be a zinc flat, as described for roof over sculleries, and with similar rain-water pipe, &c.

DESIGN 'D.'

The works required for the carrying out of this design to be in every way similar to those last described for design 'C,' with the exception that the wall of scullery is not to be constructed with the splay therein shown, but a brick arch is to be turned in the position indicated by the dotted lines on the drawing, with proper abutment against present back wall. That portion of present back wall of house forming wall of staircase, being cut away to the height of 8 feet, from level of floor of new scullery in each case, a bressummer is to be introduced over each opening so formed, composed of two battens, blocked out to the thickness of brickwork over, and bolted together, and a story-post, 9 inches by 3 inches, is to be placed under the centre of same, to form division between, and receive the jamb linings of, the new door and window shown to be side by side.

Construct the angle partition forming back of coalboxes and safes with quartering 3 inches by 2 inches, lathed, plastered, and coloured, on the inside; and outside covered with 2-inch rough boarding, and No. 10 zinc, properly fixed and soldered. Lath, plaster, and whiten the underside of roof of triangular space formed by this partition and back wall of house.

ADDENDUM K.

A separate price to be named in the tenders, if the following alterations are made from the works as described in the foregoing specifications.

Omit the separate cistern for each watercloset, and provide one large one, similar to that described to supply all closets. Alter all plumbers' closets, constructing bricklayers' closets instead, having proper wire pull and spindle valve, to supply same with water. The soil-pipe to be 4 inches instead of 5 inches lead.

CHAPTER VII.

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CONVERSION OF THREE NARROW-FRONTED TENEMENTS INTO TWO DOUBLE-FLAT HOMES YIELDING AN IMPROVED RENTAL.

IN the preceding chapters I have been dealing with the adaptation of a good class of house (16 feet 8 frontages from centre of one party wall to centre of the other party wall), and have shown my four registered designs; and the cost and result will be dealt with in Chap. VIII. This chapter I propose to devote to the consideration of an inferior class of property altogether, namely, houses having a frontage of 12 feet only within walls.

I may premise by saying I cannot give the builders' contracts to confirm what I shall advance, as my clients are not intending to alter this property at present.

In dealing with a street of this description, I would commence by doing away with each third house (see Plate 13), making such third house into scullery with kitchen range (having oven but not boiler), sink, &c. The front portion I devote to three lobby entrances, one for each of the ground floor flats and the third lobby for the two upstairs sets of flats, which are reached thence by stone staircase. The under part of this staircase is utilised for coal-closets and lobbies to