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Excerpt from Country Cottages and Week-End Homes One correspondent complains of sound travelling through partition walls. In his drawing-room he can almost hear the exact words spoken in the kitchen. This is, of course, a common defect with lath and plaster partitions, unless they are treated in a manner similar to the pugging of the floors. Slag wool or sawdust have frequently been employed between the studs; but sound-proof felting, or Cabot's quilt, nailed on to the studs would be better. To give sufficient key to the plaster the laths should be fixed to thin battens nailed on to the studs over the felting. Another point raised is the number of w.c.'s and their position. The smallest cottage (of the class dealt with) should have two; one upstairs and one down, and an extra one down stairs for the servants is desirable. The noise of flushing can only be obviated by deafening the partitions or walls, and by fixing one of the silent flushing cisterns. To place them in convenient but unobtrusive positions is a matter of planning. In all cases the entrance should be contrived away from a main passage. I sometimes think there is undue squeamishness over these things. 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.