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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 41 in order to diminish the evaporating surface, and prevent the possibility of a current of air rising through the opening.] — To put three tier of inch shelves in each of the recesses in the kitchen. The carpenter and joiner to find all materials, ironmongery, carriage, and labour for the com- pletion of his work, and to do the whole in a sound and workman- like manner. 85. Plumber's, Painter's, and Glazier's Work. To put flashings (strips) of milled lead (lead that is pressed out to the required thickness by a machine), eight inches wide, five pounds to the foot superficial, chased (let) into the brick-work, and fixed with wall- hooks, fig. 76, to the chimney shafts, with proper aprons (pieces of lead to overlap the flashings, fig. 77, s), and cover the gutters with lead seven pounds to the foot superficial. To cover the hips and ridges with milled lead, fifteen inches wide, five pounds to the foot superficial, properly lapped, dressed, and nailed with lead-headed nails (nails with their heads enveloped in lead, by dipping them in melted lead, in order to 74 prevent their rusting). To glaze and back putty, (to remove the putty pressed out of the rebate by the pane), all the sashes and casements with good second (second in quality) Newcastle crown glass. To paint the whole of the external wood- work, and the gutters, and shoots (spouts), inside four times in good white lead and oil ; the external doors to be finished in an oak, or in a stone colour. To paint the sashes, frames, shutters, linings, and skirting, inside the house, three times in oil. The plumber, painter, and glazier, to find all workmanship, materials, and % - 76 the carriage thereof; and every thing requisite for the performance of his work, and to do the same in a perfect and workmanlike manner. 86. Well, Pump, and Platform. The above specification is exclusive of a well and pump, also of a copper boiler, and setting it, and of the bringing of the earth, and forming the platform or terrace round the house. 87. Estimate. The following is the form of an estimate, framed on the above specification, as made by surveyors and builders. The architects about London and Edinburgh, as we have before observed, generally estimate by the cubic con- tents ; first making a calculation of what a cube of ten feet square will cost on each separate story ; but the surveyor, ^" whose business it is to measure buildings, and to estimate the value of ^ the labour and materials, goes into minute details. He does not, however, in giving in an estimate, specify to his employer the value which he puts on every particular item ; but only the total amounts of the diSerent works generally executed by separate tradesmen, in the following form : 88. Estimate of Bricklayer's Work. Nine cubic yards of digging, filling, and ramming ; seven cubic yards of wheeling in stones and gravel, to level the ground under the kitchen floor One hundred and ninety-seven feet of reduced brick-work, (in estimating the price of brick-work in Britain, the quantity, of whatever nature and thickness it may be, is always reduced to walls of one and a half brick in tliickness, two hundred and seventy-two and a quarter square feet of which form a rod of brick-work) One rod, eighty-two feet of reduced stone-work (the stone walls are re- duced to one and a half brick in thickness) Two rods, two hundred and twenty-five feet of reduced stone-work above ground, with brick coins and garreted joints Twenty-nine yards of brick Hogging flat Ten and a half yards of common stock paving in sand Sixteen yards of paving bricks bedded and jointed in mortar Eight feet run (lineal measure) of chasings for lead