BUILDINGS . [ 15 OF 1889. ] 1129
Kitchens and Cook -Houses.
37. Every kitchen or cook -house shall be provided with a pro- ofConstruction
kitchens or
perly constructed brick fire-place, and chimney or smoke flue. cooki-robertes
houses.
Every fire-place adapted forthe use of charcoal shall be provided 1891.]
(NO.25 of
with a hood of sheet metal or of lath and plaster of sufficient size
connecting with a chimney shaft or smoke flue carried up above
the level of the roof. The interior surfaces of every flue shall be
smoothly rendered with mortar, and no flue shall have less than
sixty square inches of sectional area .
Chimneys and Fire-places.
38. No fire-place, kitchen, or cook -house, shall be constructed cook-house
Kitchen orto
without a proper chimney or smoke flue or in such manner as to have smoke
allow the smoke to escape through any side opening, window or flue.
hole in the walls or roof, or through any vent other than the {$ ;, 25 of
1891.]
smoke flue .
39. The upper surface of any floor under any oven , stove, or oren
Floor, &under
c.
fire-place shall be of incombustible materials, extending over the [Ibid. ]
whole area covered by such oren , stove or fire-place and beyond to
a distance of 12 inches at least on every side of such oven , stove or
fire-place and such floor shall have hearths of stone, tile or other
incombustible material laid before every chimney-opening.
40. No pipe or flue for the conveyance of smoke shall be Pipe for
fixed nearer than nine inches to any wood- work or combustible conveyance
material unless encased in non -conducting and incombustible
material to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General.
41. Every chimney- shaft shall be continued up above the shaft.
Chimney
roof' in brick or cut stone- work of a thickness all round of not [ Ertended to
less than four inches, to a height of not less than three feet No.
smoke25 Hues.
of
above the highest point in the line of junction with such roof. 1891, sec. 11. ]
42. Chimneys of brick , stone , or other incombustible ma- Chimneys.
terials, may be corbelled out in the upper stories of buildings,
provided that the work so corbelled out does not project from
the wall more than the thickness of such wall , but all chimneys
built on the ground floors of buildings shall rest upon solid
foundations and upon footings similar in every respect to the
foundations of the wall against which such chimneys are built.
43. The back of every chimney -opening from the hearth up Back of
to the height of four feet above the level of the fire -grate, shall opening.
chimney
be at least nine inches thick if in a party wall , or at least four
and a half inches thick if not in a party wall.
44. The fire- places, kilns, furnaces, chimneys, flues and Certain fire
shafts, of any bakery, vermilion factory, opium boiling house, places deemed
or manufactory, shall be deemed to be exceptional structures, structures.
and shall be subject to the approval of the Surveyor General
in each particular case.