BUILDING COSTS
USE OF ROUGH HEART TIMBER. The possibility of reduced building costs wrb discussed at a meeting of the executive of the Dominion' Federated Sawmillers' Aasociatipn last week. , It was decided to confer with the Institute of Architects with a view to endeavouring to have the building bylaws throughout New Zealand so amended as ! to permit of cheaper qualities of timber being use'd for building purposes, having the same durability as the more expensive timbers at present in use. The '. bylaws now in force will not permit of anything but clean heart beinsr used fov weatherboardftig and flooring. It w,r the opinion of the meeting that the slightly inferior heart timber known ap rough heart would serve the purpose juet as efficiently and at a considerably reduced cost. It was pointed out that the life of rough heart was just as long as that of clean . heart. •
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 87, 12 April 1923, Page 8
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148BUILDING COSTS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 87, 12 April 1923, Page 8
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