BUILT WHILE YOU WAIT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 41, 21 November 1913, Page 3

BUILT WHILE YOU WAIT.

IDEAL HOME WONDERS.

"Houses built while you wait" seems at present the device of 'The Daily Mail' Ideal Home Exhibition, (states "I'he Daily Mail' of September 26). Buildings of fill types arc positively leaping up from the iloor,

Work was started on 'The Daily Mail' £2OO cottage, <at eight o'clock on Tuesday evening. By 6 ;i.m. yesterday the skeleton of the house was completed and muck of the "round floor was in a very advanced state. The brickwork was pointed to a height of two feet at one moment of observation, but it was scarcely possible to keep record of the work; the trowel is swifter than the pen at Olympia. Then* are ,-ome i.'o men occupied on this cottage, and the speed they have attained is a triunr,)h oi co-ordination.

A .schedule has been drawn up. Cement conies in- by 10 o'clock in the morning and engages general attention : joists are <hi<> at 11. and then all hands, or most of them, turn to joists; 12.30. p.m. has been earmarked for floor-boardings or skirtings. An hour or so later come tiles. Each form of material arrives after its predecessor has been dealt with, and comes to a clear space, so there are none of the ramparts of confusion which usually hem in and entangle a house in the making. It is interesting to watch the cottage's ingle-nook—that wisely included rallying point of the home —almost, grow out of project into fact. First there was a hearth, and then some quiet workmen camo and made a, few methodical gestures about it and a double line of bricks encircled it. You looked aside for a minute to see four pillars coming up like opera hats on another site, and then you turned back and realised that some hands had crept in stealthily behind you and built two walk at right angles to the brickembedded hearth. THREE MILES OF SEWING.

Naturally a fine oaken joist dropped down and spanned the front, and as the sides began to throw tendrils across you turned and fled in fear of premature burial.

Outside, the huge roof-space of Olympia was being rapidly covered with great "Velaria" curtains or sails of Pompeiaii design, such as were used in the Roman arenas, Those which will line the sides of the roof and descend to musk the galleries are eaoh 'broader than the proscenium arch of Drury Lane, and' the three great central spreads are each 103 ft by 88ft m aim, -livery housewife in London will come to sua the three miles of sewing they entail.