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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. Twelve chimney cramps One hole cut in the sink for a bell-trap 1'29 249. Estimate of Carpenter s and Joiner s Work. Four hundred and twelve feet eight inches cubic of Memel, or Dantzic fir, framed in the roof, the floors, and the partitions Twenty feet three inches of wrouglit and framed timber, in bracjcets, cut circular Six feet eight inches of wrought and framed timber, in brackets with chamfered edges One hundred and six feet ten inches of oak in the bond- plates and lintels Fifty-four feet eight inches of oak, framed in single flooring Sixty-six feet superficial of feather-edged valley-boards Sixty-seven feet eight inches of three-quarter inch wrought eaves fillet Nineteen squares sixty-eight feet of three-quarter inch slips, two and a half inches wide, for countess slating Twenty squares thirty-four feet of inch yellow deal battening, two and a quarter inches wide, and twelve inches apart Twenty-four feet superficial of inch gutters and bearers Ninety -four feet one inch superficial of one and a quarter inch keys Ninety feet nine inches of hips and ridges rounded One hundred and thirty-five feet four inches of feather-edged eave- boards, with wrought and rounded edges Fifty-three feet one inch of three-inch cut brackets, wrought and notched to the rafters Sixty feet of barrel curb to the well Sundries. — Oak wood bricks Twenty-three slip centres to the arches (a slip of deal cut to the intended line of the soffit of the arch, and supported by an upright piece against each jamb. In fig. 245, t is the slip centre ; u «, ^' 53 • 6 • 8 the upright pieces which support it ; v v, the jambs ; and iv, the arch i'810: 17:1 250. Estimate of Joiner s Work. Eighty-five feet cubic of fir, wrought, framed, and chamfered Two cubic inches of oak-fraraed pump sill. (This may seem a small quantity; but the fact is, that surveyors and builders divide the cubic foot, which contains 1728 cubic inches, into twelve parts, which they call inches ; so that the two cubic inches in this estimate are fjof 1728, or 288 cubic inches. This custom is adopted by sur- veyors, to save them the trouble in calculating the money value of fractional parts of cubic feet.)