This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
For making a hard white cement floor for a room, lay an ordinary cement concrete foundation, about 5in. thick (4 to l),nnd on this lay a coat, lin. thick, of Portland cement and clean white sand (1 to 1). Such a floor has a white appearance when dry.
 
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