Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 222
satisfactory fire-resisting floor, form of flooring is particularly useful where heavy loads it is important that no hole of any sort shall be left in it. Holes are frequently knocked in floors through which pipes may be passed, and more often than not these holes are left only partly filled by the… … carefully filled in with concrete or cement, and that the Fig. 226. whole floor should form a complete barrier to the Pumice concrete, which is used by Messrs. Lindsay passage of fire. & Co., is exceptionally light, and of high fire-resisting Roofs. — Under the heading of horizontal division,…
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