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weaker ploor.

It must be remembered to corrosion,

that iron is subject, and expecially

damp heat

in the

If

ta

apter

Ea

of

this cliniate."

weak floor be adopted, it would

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few years have to be renewed.

I have no practical

acquaintance with Lindsay's plooring but its durability depends on the life of the iron covering plates. Whereas in the floor I have proposed the concrete arching would be ~ practically permanent as it would remain intact should the galvanised arched plates on

on which it rests

suffer from corrosion.

"

Note B.

5888.

Note B. Taking Mr. Gale's estimate the saving appears to be only

of

concrete

but about the same

weight of iron. The concrete inn this system benig only filling - would cost about 2/5th per cubic yard of the concrete in the present systems / which is arched work and would have to be in Porkand

comment concrete) and the difference in the cost of

concrete for the two

system world thus be ( 2/5 of 1/4 = 1/10)

as 1 is to 10.

Nor do

dee

the reason

for assuming that this floor will have to

carry

more than 1/2 live load / the amount * warehouse floors

for usually

whuch

are in

calculated) in which case the

cronwork would be about 23 1⁄2 To

lighter and the concrete in proportion.

al

arrr

of opinion that saving of

$

there would be

something like £1,500 by adopting

this

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