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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses

This will make the doors, complete, cost as follows;

Doors $22.00
Hangers and other furniture 12.00
Extra materials 4. 00
Labor banging doors, etc 23.00
Total cost of pair first-class sliding doors $63.00

In this estimate we have supposed everything to be the best of its kind and to be in keeping with the character and style of the house, and we know from experience that the figures given are not a whit too high. To make, finish and trim a pair of sliding doors, furnish all materials of every description, such as would be required for this style of a house, and do all the work properly and in a substantial manner, will cost in every case from $50 to $70 if the contractor does justice to himself and the owner.

In the original design it was not intended to place doors in these large openings, but for many reasons we thought it better to make provision for doors between the hail and parlor. We will, however, omit putting doors in the openings connecting parlor with sitting room and sitting room with dining room, as we now know what the cost of sliding doors would be if placed in these openings.

The window in the hall looking out to the veranda is, like the inside of the front door, finished in the same style and with the same kind of material as the finish on the sliding doors. To hang, trim and finish front door, putting on hard wood casings inside, the cost will be, exclusive of material, locks, hinges, etc., $4.50. The hard wood casings, moldings and turned ornaments will cost $2, thus making the hanging, trimming and completing the front door, exclusive of cost of door and furniture, $6. The cost of the furniture will depend altogether on style and quality.

Hard Wood Window Trim.

As we have already estimated on the sash, window frames, hanging and fitting, we have only now to consider the cost of properly trimming the inside, and this one window will be the gauge for all the other hard wood finished windows in the house, excepting the circular ones in the sitting room.

Each window takes two upright architraves or casings, 7 feet long and 6 inches wide, and a head piece 5 feet long and the same width. This, with cap and fascia required,

Will cost, finished $1.60
Stuff for stool, splay jambs paneled, etc 3.50
Egg and angle molding on fascia .70
Putting in splay paneled jambs 1.50
Casing and molding 1.50
Setting in stool and cove .60
To 15 feet super, inside blinds, at 20c 3.00
Hanging blinds and furnishing back flaps 1.50
Total cost of finishing inside of window $13.90