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 23i COTTAGE, PARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. strings, fifteen feet superficial, one inch and a half deal wall string, £ s. and seven feet superficial of ramped ditto ; twenty-five feet lineal of beaded cajiping, and three feet of framed newel 3 : 17 One small skyliglit, frame and lining, to the upper part of the stairs, in the roof. : 7 One and a quarter inch deal seat, riser, and bearer, to the water- closet, with hole cut and cover lined, and skirting round 0:12 £ 68 : 14 466. Plasterer's Work. ■ Sixty yards of lath, plaster, set, and whiting, for the ceilings 4: Twenty-three yards of ditto and colouring, for the partition 1 : 14 One hundred and sixty yards of plaster, set, and colouring, for the walls 6 : O Eiglity-six feet lineal of cement skirting, seven inches wide, to the kitchen and dairy 1 : 8 416 417 ^ IS : 3:2 4f;7. Stonemason's Work. A moulded profile stone chimney-piece to the living-room ; and a set of flat jambs, mantle, and slabs to the bed-room ; and a set of one inch and a half ditto to the kitchen 3 : 5:0 Four stone sills to the windows, and two stone steps to the outside doors 2 : 5:0 A stone sink seven feet super- ficial, with grating and iron socket, waste pipe, two five- holes sink stones (dish hol- lowed out), fig. 416 1 : 14 : £7 : 4:0 468. Sundries. Ten feet lineal of three-quarter-inch pipe, with stopcock to the water-closet 1 : 0:0 Seventy-five feet superficial glazing to casements in small squares 4 : 7:6 Seven iron casements, as in fig. 287, three feet four inches by one foot seven inches ; and seven ditto, four feet by one foot seven inches 5 : 15 : 6 Painting woodwork inside and outside, four times, in oil colours 4 : 0:0 Centring for doors, windows, and chimneys, and bedding and pointing (filling up the joints) 1 : 0:0 £16 : 3:0 469. Extra Work for the Porch. Twenty-six feet reduced brickwork in the footings, and digging out the foundations for them 1 : 6:0 Eight yards superficial of pebble paving 1 : 4:0 Three quarters of a square of slating and battening 1 : 6:3 Nine oak posts, five inches square, with chamfered angles, and having the slabs of trees with the bark on, nailed round them, to imitate the trunks of trees, fig. 417 4 10 : O (Trunks of trees very soon rot, if the bark be not removed ; and the mode above recommended ha.s all the appcara<ice required, with increased durability.) Eighteen one-foot tiles for the tops and bottoms of the posts 0: 9:0 Ten branches of trees to form arches 1 : 5:0 Twenty cubic feet of Memel fir to the roof 3: 10:0 Tliirty-seven feet six inches superficial of three quarters of an incli deal soffit and fascia wrought and beaded O : 18 : 9 ir 14 : 9:0