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Q.-(Section 112.) "The landlord or owner shall make good the same to the satis- faction of the Board". Now, I want to ask you about the words "make good", as a pro- fessional man. Supposing you were Sanitary Engineer here, and you found a concrete. floor, which had got half an inch of cement rendering on top, and it had broken, flasked off, and it was reported to the Sanitary Board. and they served a notice to make good that floor, what should you understand by that? Would it be sufficient to make good what you have seen, and as far as you can test by thumping the ground, and making good that sur- face only, or should you think it necessary to take up two feet of that concrete, to see what state the concrete, was in underneath?
A.-I should go back and thump it with the handle of the pick, and if I found a holey place, where the skin of cement was parted from the concrete below, I should hammer until I had made a hole, but I would not be justified in using the point of the pick, and then I should make good that by restoring the floor with cement mortar only, my reason being that, I take it, the object to the floor is to prevent any water which is there on the surface from soaking away into the concrete.
Q-Now, I am going to carry you on a little further, that if for the sake of an experi- ment you were to take a block two feet square out of the floor, so that you could turn it over, and it was a six inch concrete floor, and you found the upper four inches of that solid and good and difficult to break with a pick, but an inch and a half at the bottom was damp-
A.-I should say that the lower inch and a half had never set.
Q-Then would you condemn the whole of that floor?
A.-No, not if it would hold water.
Q.-If by pouring water on the top of the floor, it would not reach down to the bottom, do you think they could call upon you to pull up the whole of that floor?
A.-Do I take it that you mean pouring water on the cement covering on the top of the floor?
Q.-I will go a little further, and say, if you take off that cement and put on water,- a fair quantity, not keeping it soaking over for a month,-I take it that the Ordinance means it to be an impermeable floor, that water will not come up from the bottom,-if it is still four inches of good concrete, is it not still impermeable?
A.-I would rather have that question put in a different way.
Q-Put the answer in a different way.
A. If I went iuto a place, and there was a hole in the cement rendering, if there was a sharp edge and lime concrete exposed, and I poured a bucket of water into that hole, and it did not run away in ten minutes, I would pass that floor as good.
The Chairman. With regard to making good, if you had a notice which had been served by the Building Authority, to say that the floor of a certain house was defective, and you examined it and found that the concrete was not impervious any longer, then I take it you would entirely renew that concrete? You would think the words “make good such that you would have to have it made good.
A. That is to say, if it cracked and of between bad and good concrete, the chopped wood or something of that sort. the concrete there bad, I should have a bad.
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crumbled. In other words, if it were a question place that had actually gone would be where they That would be a fair indication, and if I found very strong suspicion that the rest of the floor was
Q-And so in extreme cases, the words "make good" would mean "entirely renew"?
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