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Identifier: architectenginee1030sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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-ROTTEN WOOD TERMITES FIG. 2—TERMITE IN WINGED ST.AGE collapsed to considerably less than an inchin thickness. The outer ends of the joists oneither side of the building were either par-tially or entirely destroyed for two or threefeet of their length except over the base-ment at the rear of the building and for aconsiderable distance on one side of thebuilding the joists had been crushed to lessthan one-half their original depth of twelveinches. The lower ends of the studdingwere, with very few exceptions, found to bedamaged for a distance of from four toeight inches above the floor, this distancedepending upon the adjoining ground level.The floor was also found to be infested closeto the outer walls and towards the front 82 ARCHITECT AND LNGINEEIR, July, 1930 T AND G BOARDS <^^^ (SHEATHING-(AND 5H\HCtL£S
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FIG. 5—PLAN July, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, 83 of the building where there was practicallyno ventilation under the floor. In a numberof places the lower ends of the tongue andgroove boards had been destroyed to suchan extent that the paint was all that re-mained (Fig. 5). KVf\ STUDS CUT QTFAT LOWER END

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