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Repair - External (See Plates Nos.4. 6, 7. 11 and 12)
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, Gutters - 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
walls 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, 5 and 6) - 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 (See Plates Nos.2. 8, 9 and 10) - 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 by cold
water tap over scullery sinks; a number of tenants have provided
their own water-heaters. In 16 houses, the only sink and water
supply is shared by more than one family.
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