Excerpt from How to Build a Home: The House Practical, Being Suggestions as to Safety From Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and EconomyThe writer has made a study of construction for more than a quarter of a century, and has been careful to pre serve memoranda of details which commended themselves to his consideration, but when at last he builded for him self he sought advice and criticism of his plans and speci fications at the hands of architects, carpenters, masons, and other practical men with whom he enjoyed acquaint ance, with the result that he is able to say, after living in his house, that if building over again he would use the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.