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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses
The stone sills and lintels required on the main floor measure 47 feet 6 inches. This includes the circular sills in the bay window. The price of these sills will be the same as the price of those in the cellar windows. The lintels will also be 47 feet 6 inches long, and the same price as lintels in the cellar per foot. The second-story sills measure 59 feet 6 inches, so also do the second story caps or lintels. Of course, these stones will cost at the same rate per foot as those already mentioned, and, while I have given a price, it must be understood that the prices of this stuff should be ascertained at the place where the work is to be done, and should include delivery on the ground.
In the building before us the drawings show a stone plinth just above the ground level or grade. We will dispense with that, but if it should be necessary to make an estimate to put in a similar plinth, the allowance of $i per foot, running measure, will cover the cost in the locality where this is written.
It will require 10 feet 6 inches of door sills, these being 14 x 6 inches, and will cost not less than $1 per foot, running measure, when laid in the wall. Besides these we will be obliged to furnish cut stone for the plinth in the chimney; also bonding stone at the top of the batten in the chimney. This will make some 16 feet of cut stone, the average cost of which will be 70 cents per foot, making $11.20 for the whole amount of cut stone in the chimney.
Besides the bonding stones used in the lower portion of the chimneys, there are projecting courses of stone on the tops. These courses measure about two courses of bricks in thickness, and the three chimneys average 2 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches in section, making the number of feet of stone in each chimney, running measure, 11 feet, or 33 feet for the whole stone work required on chimney tops.
The items given of cut stone are all that are exhibited on the drawings and cover all the requirements the house needs in cut stone to make it solid, substantial and in good taste. Let me again repeat that the prices given herewith must only be used when local prices cannot be obtained.
Flurrying the Brick Work.
We are now in a position to figure on the brick work, having shown how the quantity of stone for foundation walls was obtained, and made plain the method employed in finding the number of feet of cut stone used in the building under consideration.
