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How to drain a house : practical information for householders / By Geo. E. Waring.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1885 Waring
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waring, George E., Jr. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drainage, House.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1885.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1885.
- Physical Description:
- 1 p.|., viii, [2], 222 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Co. ; 1885.
- Contents:
- Prefatory: our enemy the drains
- House-drains and health
- Drains of the average house
- The policy adopted
- The healthfulness of the house
- Foundation and cellar
- Foul drainage
- Specific advice: as to plumbing
- The sewer-gas question
- How the simplification of plumbing will affect the plumber
- Main line and main traps
- Fresh-air inlets
- Material and construction of the main drain
- The soil-pipe
- Ventilating cowls on soil-pipes
- Putnam's trap
- Plumbing appliances
- Simplicity, economy, and convenience
- Wash-stands
- Water-closets: the dececo
- Sinks: the cececo flush-pot
- Overflows and stop-cocks
- An example of simple and good work
- Owners, architects and plumbers
- Sewage disposal for isolated houses
- Sub-surface irrigation.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown cloth with writing in gold, cover features a drawing in black of a drainage system, publishers' logo on back cover.
- OCLC:
- 6281824
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