Healthy Homes; A Guide to the Proper Regulation of Buildings, Streets, Drains, and Sewers with a PostScript Especially Addressed to Surveyors and Commissioners of Sewers - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1849. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE SECURITY OF BUILDINGS AGAINST FIRE. This subject requires to be considered under two heads ;-- 1st. The rendering buildings free from liability to take fire and to burn, and so to prevent fires. 2nd. The preventing the spread of fire from building to building, and so to insure against conflagrations. And first as to the means of rendering buildings free from liability to take fire and to burn. It is easy to understand that this object may be fully effected in particular cases; but as it cannot be effected without much greater expense than can be reasonably incurred, having reference to the risk, under ordinary circumstances, it is proposed to limit the inquiry in this place to the means of rendering buildings of ordinary construction, and particularly dwelling-houses, so far free from the liability in question, that they may be inhabited, or otherwise occupied, with the smallest amount of danger to human life. It is seldom that dwelling-houses and such like buildings take fire and are burnt from the common accidents against which it is practically impossible wholly to guard, such as those which occur to the lighter movable furniture, and to the drapery used in them ; but, for the most part, the danger arises from the exposure of timber in some form or other in or about the structure, to the continued action of fire, or of heat capable sooner or later of inducing the combustion of timber; and as the source is most commonly in some stove, furnace, flue, pipe, or other tube for generating or for conveying heat, or for removing the products of combustion, much of the real danger to buildings from fire would be prevented by preventing that degree of proximity between timber and all such things as can lead to the combustion of the timber. That buildings d...

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