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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 219 One hundred and sixty feet lineal bird's-mouth splays to the quoins £, ». rf. (corners) of the towers, at 2d, per foot. (A bird's-mouth splay is an oblique angle, as at a, fig. 375, instead of a right angle.) 1 ; 6:8 To build a small cess-pool, two feet six inches square, and one foot six inches deep, of one brick wall all round, under the water- closet ; and to pro^^de thirty-feet of eight-inch drain pipes, and digging, to convey the soil to the common sewer ; also an earthen- ware pan and trap 2 : 18 : O £'107 -.2:6 443. Slater's Worli. Eight square forty feet of countess slating, at 25s. per square 10 : 10 : Thirty-six feet lineal of glazed ridge tiles, at 6rf. per foot O : 18 : O Eighty-six feet lineal of cement filleting to the gable, at 2d. per foot : 14 : 4 i,12 : 2:4 444. Carpenter's Work. Seven squares of three quarters of an inch battening, two inches and a half wide, for slating, at 10s. per square 3 : 10 : Sixty-three feet superficial of three quarters of an inch feather-edged eaves-board, at 5d. per foot 1 : 6:3 Eighty-six feet lineal of tilting fillets to the gables, at l^d. per foot O : 10 : 9 Two hundred and ninety-eight cubic feet of ]Memel, Riga, or Dantzic fir, in bonds, plates, rafters, joists, and quarters, as under, at 3s. 6d. per foot 52 : 3:0 Ridge-pieces, ten inches by one inch and a half; rafters, four inches by two inches and a half; purlins, four inches by four inches ; two collar beams, nine inches by three inches ; ceUing joists halved on to the rafter, four inches and a half by one inch and a half; (joists are said to be halved on, when they are joined by half being cut out of the joist and half out of the rafter) ; a girder under the floor of the large room, nine inches by nine inches ; joists, seven inches by two inches and a half; plates, four inches by four inches and a half under the roof, and under each floor, all round, except where the flues inten-ene ; also two tiers of bond, four inches by two inches and a half; oak sleeper under the ground floor, and oak sill, four inches by four inches, to the partition on the ground floor ; heads to the partition, four inches by five inches, to form the sill of the partition above, or the cross-tie to the roof; centre and door-posts, and door-head, four inches by four inches ; quartering, four inches by two inches ; door-posts and head to the water-closet, and the closets on each side, four inches by four inches, to be wrought all round ; beaded head to the partition over ditto, four inches by four inches ; pimcheons, foui- inches by two inches. Three centres to the fireplaces, and ten ditto to the apertures of the doors and windows; one centre to the Gothic head 1 : 0:0 i:58 : 10 : O 445. Joiner's Work. Nine and a quarter square inch deal wrought folding floors, at 40s. per square 18 : 10: O Two hundred and thirty feet, lineal plain skirting out of two cut battens, with a hollow and groove worked on the face, backings, and wooden bricks at 6d. per foot (seeZ, and o, in fig. 369) 5: 15 : O Eight one and a half inch four-panel square framed doors, sis feet six inches by two feet six inches, with a hollow worked on the fram- ing round the panels, as in fig. 376, hmig with three-inch butt hinges, and fastened with a six-inch iron-rimmed two-bolt lock, one and a half inch rebated linings and mouldings round both sides, at 30s. per door 12: 0:0 Four doors as above, with fillets nailed on the door-posts to form stops, to the water-closet, to the closets on each side, and to the