The student's guide to the practice of measuring and valuing artificers' works. By a late eminent surveyor |
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12 inch abstract according allow angle arch architrave balusters battens beaded bond timber bricklayer bushels CARPENTER AND JOINER ceiling chimney circular columns common cornice Cube fir cubic feet cubic yard dado decimal deduction dimensions ditto doors dovetailed dowels edges shot find the value floors foot run foot superf FOOT SUPERFICIAL framed grounds girt grooved head Inch deal inches wide joists labour and nails laid flat Lath and plaster lime measuring mitred mortar multiplying the rate Number ovolo pan tiling panel paving plain tiling Plate plinth ploughed and tongued plugs prime cost pulleys purlins quarter partitions queen posts quoins rafters rate of wages rebated render set riser roofs rough SASHES AND FRAMES scantlings shew side sill soffit spandril splayed square of 100 step stone straight joint Stucco sunk surbase taken wainscot walls Whole deal width WINDOW SHUTTERS
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Сторінка iv - VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORKS; containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants, and copious Memoranda for the Valuation of Labour and Materials in the respective Trades of Bricklayer and Slater, Carpenter and Joiner, Painter and Glazier, Paperhanger, &c. With 43 Plates and Woodcuts.
Сторінка 30 - A cubic yard or load of mortar requires nine bushels of lime and one load of sand. The proportion of mortar or cement, when made up, to the materials in their unmixed state, is as two to three.
Сторінка 31 - In loose ground a man can throw up about 10 cubic yards per day, but in hard or gravelly soils 5 yards will be a fair day's work. Three men will remove 30 yards of earth a distance of 20 yards in a day. A yard of concrete requires about 3 hours' labour to mix and throw in, or, if in heavy masses and the materials handy, about 2 hours.
Сторінка ii - Designing, Measuring, and Valuing. THE STUDENT'S GUIDE to the PRACTICE of MEASURING, and VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORKS; containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants, and copious Memoranda for the Valuation of Labour and Materials in the respective Trades of Bricklayer and Slater, Carpenter and Joiner, Painter and Glazier, Paperhanger...
Сторінка 30 - A rod of brickwork requires lj cubic yard of chalk lime and three loads of sand ; or one cubic yard of stone lime and 3J loads of sand ; or 36 bushels of cement and 36 bushels of sharp sand. A cubic yard or load of mortar requires nine bushels of lime and one load of sand.
Сторінка 29 - H 0 1 5 0 (NB — A bundle contains 12 laths.) Plain tile laths per) bundle } 500 0 0 1 0 0} 0 12 (30 bundles 1 load.) SECTION V.
Сторінка 31 - Wheeling is estimated by the run of 20 yards. A gang of three men, two for filling and one for wheeling, will remove about 30 yards per day to this distance ; and the labour of removing earth may be calculated according to distance, allowing three men to the first run, and an additional man for every 20 yards of distance.
Сторінка 50 - G, the dado hangs unconfined, the joints being also secured by slips ploughed and glued into the back, as at H, and dovetailed pieces inserted at regular distances, as at M, the top and bottom of...
Сторінка 35 - Slating is measured superficial, and charged per square of 100 feet. In measuring, allow for the eaves whatever the bottom course measures, and for the hips and valleys measure their length...
Сторінка 103 - Iron or wood railings, balusters to stairs, &c., are measured on both sides as solid work, to allow for the extra trouble of painting round the bars, rails, &c., at per yard.