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1. Provide through ventilation under ground room floors.
2. Provide through ventilation in living rooms.
3. The present w.c's. to be removed, and a w.c. provided for
each cottage where it will not be a nuisance.
4. Provide water with sink &c., in each cottage.
5. Abate dampness of walls.
6. Eelay yard paving.
The owners agreed to comply with these requirements, and to
that end submitted the following specification of works to be
executed on the property. The specification met with the approval
of the Sanitary Authority. At the time of writing, the alterations
are approaching completion.
SPECIFICATION.
April, 1906.
The whole of the workmanship and material to be of the best of
their respective kinds. The existing range of W.C.'s to be cleared
away and the existing drains to same to be grubbed up and trenches
well coated with quick lime before the ground is filled in.
Take down front wall of end cottage as shown on plan. Eemove
the roof and floors and cut away the chimney breasts on both floors,
and take down chimney stack to roof level. Eemove the staircase
and make good all work disturbed. Strip off the paper and hack off
the plaster from walls and distemper walls inside W.C.'s.
Erect the W.C.'s as shown on plan, of deal framed fronts and
2-inch slate partitions. Each W.C. to have a ledged door secured
with Norfolk latch and 4-inch bolt, with framed louvres over of not
less area than 2 superficial feet, the roof to be of zinc, laid to fall
to the front and have o.g. gutter and stack pipe. The paving
hereafter specified to the court to be continued over the space
occupied by the end cottage, and to be laid to fall towards the
court, including floors of W.C.'s.
The W.C. apparatus to be an approved County Council pattern,
wash down apparatus connected to drain by means of easy bends,