Table of Contents

Volume I BRICKWORK: Materials; Bonding; Stopped ends; Junctions and quoins; Piers; Jambs; Foundations; Damp proof courses; Site concrete; Offsets and corbels; Lintels; Arches; Window sills; Thresholds; Copings; Plinths; Tools; Construction; Jointing and pointing MASONRY: Classification of stones; Quarrying; Preparation; Defects; Walling; Rubble work; Ashlar; Arches; Window sills; Plinths; Cornices; String courses; Copings; Masonry joints; Mortar jointing; Lifting appliances CARPENTRY: Structure, growth, felling, seasoning, preservation, conversion, defects and classification of timber-floors; Single, double and framed roofs; Trench timbering; Centering JOINERY: Ledged braced and battened, framed ledged braced and battened, panelled and flush doors; Casement, cased frame, pivoted and Yorkshire windows; Hardware; Architraves, skirtings, picture rails and angle beads; Nails, screws and fasteners; tools SLATING: Formation, quarrying, conversion, preparation and characteristics of slates; Centre-nailed and head-nailed slating details; Nails; Ridges; Hips; Valleys; Tools; Plain tiling PLUMBING: Manufacture and characteristics of lead; Lead rolls, drips, flashings and soakers; Details of leadwork at gutters, flats, chimney stacks, ridges, hips and valleys; Lead pipe joints; Eaves gutters; Down-pipes; Tools MILD STEEL SECTIONS, BOLTS AND RIVETS Homework programme Volume II BRICKWORK: Materials, including bricks, lime, cement, mortars and concrete; Squint junctions; Squint quoins; Rebated and splayed jambs; Piers; Cavity walls; Circular work; Raking bonds; Reinforced brickwork; Special bonds; Arches; Damp proofing of basements; Open areas; Stepped foundations; Concrete floor construction; Decorated brickwork; Fireplaces; Flues; Chimney breasts and stacks; Setting out DRAINAGE: Sewage disposal; Drain pipes and traps; Setting out and excavation of drain trenches; Construction of drains; Drainage schemes; Intercepting and inspection chamber; Ventilation; Testing MASONRY: Formation and classification of stones; Granites; Sandstones; Limestones; Marbles; Slates; Defects; Tests; Quarrying and mining; Machine dressing; dressings to door and window openings; Cornices; Steps and stair MILD STEEL ROOF TRUSSES: Bolts and rivets; Details of roof trusses suitable for 20-ft., 30-ft., 30 to 40-ft. and 40-ft. span Homework programme Volume III CARPENTRY: Classification, structure, conversion, seasoning, preservation, defects, characteristics, uses, preparation and sources of timbers; Woodworking machinery; Doubled, framed and fire-resisting floors, Determination of sizes of joists and beams, and floor finishes; Stoothed, trussed and slab partitions; Sound-proofing; Double, laminated and Queen post roofs; Deep trench timbering; Centering JOINERY: Transomed, semicircular headed, glazed and flush doors; Semicircular headed and three light cased windows and metal windows; Details of straight flight, Dog-leg and open stairs, Winders and special steps; Manufacture, characteristics and uses of plywood, laminboards, blockboards, battenboards and composite boards ROOF COVERINGS: Manufacture and characteristics of clay, shale and asbestos; Cement tiles and sheets; Details of plain, pan, Italian and Spanish tiling, asbestos-cement sheeting, stone slating, shingling, and copper and zinc roofing; Thatching Homework programme Syllabus in building construction, stage two Index to three volumes.

About the Author

William Barr McKay came from Consett, County Durham and started his career in architectural training before 1914. He also qualified as a structural engineer, becoming a member of the Institute of Structural Engineers in 1927, and he served on the institute's council.

Reviews

McKay's Building Construction should be on the desk of everyone involved with the repair and maintenance of buildings using the construction methods it contains. Journal of Architectural Conservation The detail - and detail is the word - contained here is as up-to-date as when WB wrote and drew it in his Manchester study more than 60 years ago... This book is from another world. Ecclesiastical & Heritage World McKay's is the modern construction manual, logically set out, with succinct and practical text, and beautifully clear detailed drawings... For readers who need a crash course on traditional building construction, or lack a useful book on the subject, McKay's is the one. Context In bringing out this facsimile edition Donhead has performed a valuable service for all building conservation practitioners. The production of this work is a major achievement and a key influence and source of inspiration on how we should view and treat our built heritage. Building Conservation Journal For some, this book will be an old acquaintance from student days, dipped into as the need arises. But for those educated in more recent years, its drawings and references to traditional materials seem to speak of a bygone era. For those who ... have to deal with the stock of late 19th-and 20th-century buildings, there is a wealth of useful details on many subjects. For those who do not have the early editions of McKay's, or have no time to scour second-hand bookshops, this will be a good resource SPAB Cornerstone