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Repair - External
Brickwork, Sills and Copings - Perished brickwork and pointing, and
broken, loose rendering to walls and chimney stacks. Badly weathered and
defective sills and copings.
Paving - Sunken and fractured paving of yards and passages.
Roofs and Gutters. (See Plates Nos.l, 2. 4 and 7) - Main and back
addition roofs sagging, slates and/or tiles missing, displaced or
defective, eaves gutters and rainwater pipes perished and defective,
valley gutters badly constructed and leaking.
Woodwork - Sagging roof timbers, window and door frames decayed
and/or badly worn or ill-fitting.
Repair - Internal
Woodwork Generally - Badly worn and weak stair treads, badly fitting
and defective doors and window frames, sashes decayed, badly worn and
ill-fitting-
Floors - Ground floor timbers decayed and/or sunken out of level
and unstable, floorboards badly worn and/or worm-infested.
Walls and Ceilings - Plaster loose and/or perished, scullery mils
rough and unrendered.
Generally - Broken and uneven solid floors, defective sink waste
pipes, defective and/or obsolete fire grates, defective chimney flues,
jambs and hearths.
Freedom from Damp. (See Plates Nos.l, 2, 6, 10, 11 and 13)
Dampness rising in walls due to absence of effective damp proof
courses, dampness penetrating walls and ceilings due to porous brickwork,
defective sills and window connections, leaking roofs, eaves gutters
and rainwater pipes and valley gutters. Excessive dampness below ground
floors due to absence of site concrete.
Natural Lighting - Insufficient natural light in ground floor back
rooms due to obstruction or overshadowing caused by close proximity of
adjoining buildings, badly positioned small and/or low windows, and in
some rooms absence of direct natural lighting altogether. Staircases,
passages and W.C.'s dark due to absence of windows to the external air.
Ventilation - Rooms without permanent means of ventilation and/or
ventilation impeded by reason of decayed or defective window woodwork
making sashes difficult, if not impossible, to open. Inadequate ventilation
to staircases and W.C.'s.
Water Supply - Except in a few instances, the only water supply
available for domestic and personal purposes is cold tap water over
scullery sinks. There is a general absence of fixed baths and washbasins.
A small number of tenants have provided their own washing coppers
and/or water heaters, otherwise there are no facilities for domestic
washing or hot water supply systems. In 11 houses the only sink and cold
water supply is shared by more than one family.
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