The contractor shall make no alterations of the drawings or specification, but should any error or inconsistency appear in these, it shall be the duty of the contractor to duly notify architect, who will make proper adjustment. The contractor is to give to the proper authorities all requisite notices of the work in his charge, obtain official permits and licenses for temporary obstructions and pay all proper fees for the same, and to be solely answerable for all damage to neighboring premises or to the person or property of the public by himself or his men or through any operatives under his charge, whether in contract or extra work. Contractor is to protect his work from frost until building is finished, and is to cart away all rubbish and leave the whole broom clean. All drawings, etc., are to be returned to the architect, and are not to be used for any other building.
CARPENTER.
Scantling.—Sills over piers 6″ × 8″, sills that rest on stone wall 4″ × 6″, all to be halved and pinned at angles. Plates 4″ × 4″, posts 4″ × 6″, girts 4″ × 4″, braces 2″ × 4″, studding 2″ × 4″. The studding of hall, parlor, and dining room to be planed and chamfered.
Partition caps 2″ × 4″ to be planed in the above rooms. Soles 2″ × 4″ as well. First floor beams 2″ × 8″, 16″ on centers. Second floor 2″ × 8″, 16″ on centers, and to be dressed when exposed in above rooms. Attic beams 2″ × 8″, 16″ on centers. All beams under partitions to be doubled and spiked. Trimmers ditto.
Main Roof.—Rafters 2″ × 8″, 2′ on centers. Valley rafters 3″ × 10″.
Veranda.—Girders 4″ × 8″, floor beams 2″ × 6″, 2′ on centers. Rafters 2″ × 6″ (dressed). Posts constructed of studs. Hemlock boards and shingles. Veranda roof timber will be exposed and dressed, floor to be merchantable yellow pine, free from large loose knots, shakes, or sap. Balcony floors to be covered with heavy canvas and slushed over with metallic paint, to be graded away from wall of house.
Framing.—The house to be framed and braced in a perfect and substantial manner, and to be perfectly plumb and true. All beams to be spiked together where practicable, so as to form tie across building. All framing of beams to be with tenon and tusk. Roofs strongly framed and cross bridges, first and third tier of beams. Gutters on roof to be hung of galvanized iron. Veranda to be built in and lined with Merchant & Company’s roofing tin (or plates). There will be three 4″ galvanized iron leaders for main roof, and one in front for veranda. (See plans.)
Gables.—Construct gables as shown.
Roofing.—Cover all roofs with sawed pine shingles 6″ × 18″, three shingles to the lap. On main roofs these to be nailed on shingle laths; on veranda roofs, on spruce boards, underside dressed (as specified). Flashing of Merchant & Company’s old method roofing plates. Flash around chimney, valleys, and junction of roofs with walls of house.
Walls.—The walls of hall, dining room, and parlor to be covered with good ⅞″ pine boards dressed on exposed side; all other underboarding to be of hemlock of even thickness. Over this cover walls with felt paper, and then on first story cover paper with clear pine clapboards 5″ to weather. Above felt cover paper with 6″× 16″ sawed pine shingles not more than 6″ to weather. Between partitions of hall, dining room, and parlor fit ⅞″ pine boards, dressed on both sides, with ¼ round mould to keep panel in place; the sheathing on other sides of room dressed on one side; boards not more than 5″ wide.