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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses
We now come to the cornice on the main building, including the belt dividing the brick work from the shingling of the gables.
Of the latter there is, by actual measurement, 81 feet in length, covering four gables. The belts are 18 inches wide, including band and bed moldings, and, as will be seen by examining Fig. 1, these beltings are paneled. As the kind of paneling is not specified we will assume that it is framed, with panels sunk and molded, and that the cap molding is formed of two pieces—namely, a beveled cap with wrought nosing, made to project over the top rail 1 inch or more and having a cove or ogee molding under it as a sort of bed molding. Below the belting there is a cluster of members, forming a bed mold and finishing against the brick work. To make these belt courses, including all the moldings, will require about 3 feet of good material for each running foot, or, say, 300 feet of stuff. Preparing it in the factory, with the aid of machinery, will take 21/2 days for one man. This includes framing, molding, cleaning and getting out stuff. To put it in place, erect scaffold and leave the work ready for the painter will take two men two days each, and will require to fasten and leave complete about 20 pounds of nails, including what may be required for building the scaffolding.
Main Cornice.
The details of the main cornice, drawn to a scale of 3/4, inch to the foot, are shown in Fig. 10. The combination consists of furring, frieze, bed molding, sheeting, fascia and crown mold, the whole having a girt of 4 feet in round figures. The cornice, including the four gables and barge boards, measures 240 feet in length, which multiplied by 4 feet—the length of girt line—makes 960 feet of material (say 1000 feet) to make the main cornice and barge boards for the gables. To make this stuff in the factory, using machinery and completing it ready for putting in place, taking the stuff from the rough, will occupy two men three days each. This, of course, includes paneling and molding the eight barge boards. To put this 240 feet of cornice and barge boards in place will take two men four days each to complete the work. We say two men, because on a piece of work of this kind less than two men would be useless, and there would not be much gain by having a third man in the same gang for this kind of work, though an apprentice boy, to hold and handle stuff, pass nails, etc., makes a paying accompaniment.
