The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California
Estimating Frame And Brick Houses
If a window frame has a segmental or semicircular head the cost will materially advance, and if the finish is to be of hard wood, with hard wood sash, the cost will be nearly double. For twin, triple and transom sash ample allowance must be made on the basis of the foregoing figures. Dormers, skylights, eyebrow frames and cupola lights generally cost more than ordinary windows, if finished in the same style.
Cellar window frames with subsills to rest on stone sills will average about $1 each for labor, which will include fitting sash, hanging and putting in stops. The price of sash, ready glazed, may be obtained at the factory if desired, or the sash may be bought separately and the painter made to furnish glass and do all glazing. In making an estimate for a semi-octagonal bay window, built in the same style as the window mentioned, including boxing for weights and complete finish for inside, we find the labor will cost $35, while the material, based on New York prices, will cost $60, making the total cost of bay window complete $100. This figure will be found ample for almost all parts of the United States and Canada. If the window is finished in hard wood and filled with plate glass, the cost will be about 90 per cent more.
Pantries and Closets.
In fitting up pantries and closets much depends on what has to be done. Some of these places are fitted up very elaborately while others are quite plain and cheap. As a help at arriving at the cost I might say that one man will put up and finish from 60 to 75 feet of shelving 12 inches wide in a day, which will include nailing up battens and cleats to receive shelving. He will also make carcase and four drawers and put up same in closet in one day, if the drawers are not dovetailed. If drawers are dovetailed and finished with locks and pulls it will require two full days to build carcase and four drawers and put them in place. About 80 feet in length of 3/12 inch or 4 inch battens, furnished with wardrobe hooks, will be all a man can properly do in one day.
Hard Wood Finish.
Hard finish, so called, is generally charged by the yard, and requires superior workmanship to accomplish satisfactory results. The cost of performing this work depends very much on the character of the wood work, both as to its workmanship and its style. If elaborate and the workmanship good, the finisher may ask from 90 cents to $2.00 per yard. If the workmanship is of poor quality, and the finisher has to smooth it and double fill it, he may ask even more than the latter figure. Where the wood work is plain it may be done for less. We have seen very good work done for 75 cents a yard in exceptional cases. Where work of this kind is called for by the specifications the estimator had better get prices from local artisans, the prices to include all materials required.
