THE illustrations show a practical way of solving, the wartime industrial housing problem. We have selected for an example a workman’s home in Youngstown, Ohio. A miniature reproduction of the completed house is shown, also front elevation, first floor plan and section through building. This is the no-sheathtng type of metal lath and stucco construction. Herringbone Rigid Metal Lath was applied directly to the studs, plastered on the outside and then back-plastered so as to cover fully and imbed the lath.
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HE Government has indorsed metal lath and stucco construction. Workmen are kept in better condition when they are housed with their families in the comfortable, attractive homes made possible by metal lath and stucco. Such building materials have these wartime advantages:
They are easily handled and quickly erected. They frequently can be found on the job or close to point of building.
When shipped by freight, the saving of car space (metal lath for a given job requires much less space than other materials) is a valuable consideration.
Any high-grade metal lath makes safe and permanent outside stucco walls or inside plaster walls, and ceilings. But Herringbone Rigid Metal Lath is especially desirable because of its exceptional rigidity, due to the heavy longitudinal ribs set at an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of the lath.
The Herringbone clinches the plaster and the plaster clinches the Herringbone in an unbreakable grip. Herringbone industrial homes are cool in summer, warm in winter; fire-safe; mice, vermin, moisture and decay proof.
Herringbone industrial homes are comparatively economical to build and most economical in the end, because repair and repainting bills are practically eliminated. These houses are not built overnight to fall apart in a year. They can be rapidly erected, but they will last through many generations.
Because o: its facilities for distributing metal lath in all principal centers, The General Fireproofing Company is in an unusually favorable position to serve the builders of industrial homes. We shall gladly furnish complete information and give every possible assistance to architects and engineers interested in this type of construction. Write:
The General Fireproofing Co., Youngstown, Ohio Manufacturers of Metal Lath, Concrete
Reinforcements, and Waterproofings
Members of Associated Metal Lath Manufacturers Branches in Principal Cities
The GF Industrial Housing Book will be sent free to any interested architect, engineer or contractor on request. To others, upon remit• tance of $1.00.
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Practical Industrial Homes
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HE Government has indorsed metal lath and stucco construction. Workmen are kept in better condition when they are housed with their families in the comfortable, attractive homes made possible by metal lath and stucco. Such building materials have these wartime advantages:
They are easily handled and quickly erected. They frequently can be found on the job or close to point of building.
When shipped by freight, the saving of car space (metal lath for a given job requires much less space than other materials) is a valuable consideration.
Any high-grade metal lath makes safe and permanent outside stucco walls or inside plaster walls, and ceilings. But Herringbone Rigid Metal Lath is especially desirable because of its exceptional rigidity, due to the heavy longitudinal ribs set at an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of the lath.
The Herringbone clinches the plaster and the plaster clinches the Herringbone in an unbreakable grip. Herringbone industrial homes are cool in summer, warm in winter; fire-safe; mice, vermin, moisture and decay proof.
Herringbone industrial homes are comparatively economical to build and most economical in the end, because repair and repainting bills are practically eliminated. These houses are not built overnight to fall apart in a year. They can be rapidly erected, but they will last through many generations.
Because o: its facilities for distributing metal lath in all principal centers, The General Fireproofing Company is in an unusually favorable position to serve the builders of industrial homes. We shall gladly furnish complete information and give every possible assistance to architects and engineers interested in this type of construction. Write:
The General Fireproofing Co., Youngstown, Ohio Manufacturers of Metal Lath, Concrete
Reinforcements, and Waterproofings
Members of Associated Metal Lath Manufacturers Branches in Principal Cities
The GF Industrial Housing Book will be sent free to any interested architect, engineer or contractor on request. To others, upon remit• tance of $1.00.
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