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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses

It will be noticed that a part of the side of balcony and spandril in end of veranda are shingled with picked and squared shingles. To do this will require nearly 1000 picked shingles, for which double price should be charged, both for material and for labor. If all this material is prepared at the mill, and made ready to put up, it will require ten days' work of one good man to finish it, and it will cost as much more to prepare and deliver the stuff on the ground, and to the cost of lumber, shingles and mill work must be added the cost of 30 pounds of nails of various sizes. With this data the estimator should experience no difficulty in arriving at reliable figures of the cost of the veranda ready to be painted.

Lattice Work Panels.

Under the veranda floor are five lattice work panels measuring 9 x 11/2 feet. Usually this work is charged by the foot square, superficial, and in the locality where this is written 25 cents is the average. In this case, however, the circular corner requires so much more labor and stuff that we place the price per foot, superficial, all around, at 50 cents, which will include frame and setting. This price will also cover nails and such screws as may be necessary.

Rear Veranda.

On the back veranda there are two flights of steps, which will require 150 feet of lumber to make, 6 pounds of nails and one day's work. There are ten posts 6x6 inches by 10 feet, to veranda and latticed porch, making 360 feet of stuff, and 50 feet of cornice, which in this case will require 3 feet of stuff for each running foot, making 150 feet; 100 feet for rails, and the same for balusters, brackets and cuttings. These, without lattice work and frame, will make;
Feet.

Steps and posts 360
Cornice 150
Rails 100
Balusters, etc 100
Total 710

We will say 8oo feet, 25 pounds of nails and six days' work, not including mill work, which would make in this case about two days more. The portion of the porch latticed contains 168 feet, which if charged at the rate of 25 cents per foot will make $42 completed. This includes frames, nails, screws, cartage and fitting.

Circular Balustrade.

The balustrade over the circular window, which is reached from the attic floor, consists, as shown in the sectional view, Fig. 9, of a number of pieces, and on examination it will be seen that the balustrade with rail and lower cornice is a somewhat complicated piece of work.