Sinopsis
A practical guide to inspecting and reinforcing foundations, footings, and load-bearing members.
This handbook helps builders, surveyors, and designers understand common problems in buildings and how to prevent them. It covers foundations, footings, timber and stone elements, lintels, chimneys, spires, and the effects of soils and wind on structural safety.
Written as a field-ready reference, it connects real-world observations with tested methods. You’ll find guidance on assessing soil bearing, choosing safe footing widths, and using concrete, stone, and timber in ways that improve stability. The text also explains how to repair defective foundations, restore brickwork, and secure structures against movement or collapse.
- Practical steps for diagnosing foundation problems and deciding when to shore, underpin, or rebuild.
- Techniques for strengthening lintels, arches, and wall joints with concrete beds, iron ties, or reinforced materials.
- Approaches to shoring theory, timber shores, and safe work practices for temporary supports.
- How environmental factors like soil type, water side effects, and wind loads influence design and repairs.
Ideal for readers of building restoration, structural surveys, and construction—those who want clear, actionable methods for safer, longer-lasting structures.
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The work comprised in the following pages was first published in 1890, as a series of articles in the Building World, when it met with so much appreciation that it was thought advisable to embody it in its present more permanent form. All the matter in the book has been.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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In the present volume the Author's object has been to deal with some of those awkward problems in building which demand prompt solution, to suggest ready means for getting over difficulties which frequently occur in practice, and to supply data from which efficient and at the same time economical remedies may be designed to counteract evils arising from structural defects. To this end, the results of some practical experience have been summed up and presented to the reader in a concise form, together with so much theoretical demonstration as may not be too abstruse for ready reference. Tables showing the ultimate strength of such structural accessories as lintels, beams, struts, and posts, have been supplied. These tables have been expressly calculated for the purpose, and as they have been carefully checked, it is hoped that they will prove useful and reliable as memoranda for reference by surveyors, builders, and others, and will be conducive to economy of time.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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