This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... blocks, which are sand-filled, are removed with crowbars and placed convenient to the cutters, who work in the street, producing about 225 of the small blocks per 8-hr. day. The price for re-dressing is about 2i cts. per block, although as the work has been let in many contracts this price varied somewhat. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... blocks, which are sand-filled, are removed with crowbars and placed convenient to the cutters, who work in the street, producing about 225 of the small blocks per 8-hr. day. The price for re-dressing is about 2i cts. per block, although as the work has been let in many contracts this price varied somewhat. The renovated 1 Engineering Record, Nov. 14, 1914. blocks are curried to the heavy-traffic streets on which they are to be used. They are then laid in transverse courses on a 6-in., 1-3)-7 concrete foundation with a 2-in. sand cushion. The joints are grouted with a 1 to 1 mortar, a thin coat of which is finally applied to the surface. Traffic is kept off the completed pavement for 14 days. During 191.3 there were laid of this new paving about 5,000 sq. yd., and in 1914, to Nov. 1, 3,900 sq. yd. Approximate costs per square yard of finished pavement for this surface are as follows: Breaking up old pavements, $0.09; recutting, $1.00; hauling, laying and grouting, $0.71; total unit cost, $1.80. As the old blocks have practically no value unless used in this way, the cost of laying the recut prisms, exclusive of foundation, may be compared with that for improved granite block, exclusive of foundation. As an average figure for the latter in Baltimore is $2.80, recutting means a saving of 36 per cent. There still exist in the city about 750,000 sq. yd. of the old granite-block pavement, and it is planned to make similar use of this as opportunity offers. The work is being done under the direction of the assistant engineers of the Municipal Paving Commission, of which R. Keith Compton is chairman. IMPROVED GRANITE-BLOCK PAVEMENTS1 To secure a smooth, even surface--so perfect, in fact, that no crosswalks or bridgestones are used or needed--it is necessary that t...
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