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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses
These amounts cover the total joists and timber required for porches and verandas. To prevent mistakes, the items are called off again:
Front veranda sills 100 feet.
Sills under conservatory, etc .... 48 feet.
Joists under verandas 264 feet.
Under conservatory, etc 168 feet.
Bear veranda sills 144 feet.
7oists 240 feet.
Total for verandas, etc 964 feet.
It will require two days' labor to frame the sills, place them, cut the joists, put them in place and make them ready to receive the veranda floor. In work of this kind the estimator must reckon that to prepare and properly put in place 500 feet of rough joisting, sills and similar work requires a good man one day, and, taking all similar kinds of work into consideration, this time is little enough. The estimator must not overlook the nails required to make this work good. Experience shows that this sort of work averages something like 5 pounds of nails to every 1000 feet of joists and sills put down on what is known as the " rolling system;" that is, when the joists simply rest on the sills without being framed into them, which is the case with the ones under consideration.
The Basement.
We must now deal with the cellar, furnace room, laundry and the basement generally. In this case we make all the partitions of yy ood and plaster. There is a beam and post in front cellar to carry floors above. This beam, or girder, is 24 feet long, 8 x 10 inches, and is held in place by two posts and the front brick wall. The posts are 10 x 10 inches, 8 feet long, and rest on good stone footings, which have been provided for. These posts will measure 134 feet, and the girder will contain 160 feet. There is now 83 feet of partition, 8 feet high, to be provided for. This will take 63 studs placed 16 inches to centers, 2x6 inches (we make these 2x6 inches in the basement, as these partitions will have to bear a goodly portion of the weight of the floors and partitions above) ; each stud will contain 8 feet, making a total of 63 X 8 = 504 feet. As this does not provide for double studs at the doors, floor pieces and plates, we may make the amount 700 feet, as that much will be required. To place these partitions and make them ready for the lathers, and put in posts and girder, will take two days' labor and 5 pounds of nails. All the joists in lower floor are 2 x 10 inches and of various lengths, but all placed 16 inches from center to center. By actual measurement these will require the following:
