Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — Frost-Proof Walls. [ARTICLE]

Frost-Proof Walls.

I have just finished banking up my house in preparation for winter. It has cost me at least four dollars. It will cost another dollar to rempve it in the spring, to say nothing of the unavoidable litter attending, and all simply because I have not a frost-proof wall under my house. Such a wall is very easily made, thus: In laying up the main wall of stone, at a point below where the frost can reach, a jog outward of four inches is made; upon the inner edge of this jog, brick is

laid up edgewise In mortar, reaching to the floor, securing a dead-air space of two inches in the wall; thus making it proof against frost entering through it. By this simple and not expensive way of building cellar walls or the walls under our houses the annual expense of banking and clearing away and the nuisance of litter necessarily attending the doing of it are avoided.— Cor. Germantown Telegraph.