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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses

These facts being known and understood by the estimator, he will be able to arrive at a fairly correct value of the work he is figuring on. These remarks refer only to the building proper, not to the fitments, for these vary so in style and price that only when the kind of fitting to be employed is known can anything like a proper estimate be made.

Stalls and Other Details.

The illustration shown by Fig. 4 is a representation of an old time stall, with bare stone wall at the horse's head, paving brick floor without compensating slats, and boarded sides with cast iron head posts. This kind of a stall was much better than many contemporary ones, but was far from being as good—from any point of view— as those more generally adopted in the stables of the better class of Americans, as evidenced by the illustration, Fig. 5. This illustration gives a good idea of how the interior of a good stable should be fitted up.

So far I have dealt only with private stables, but this treatment will be sufficient to enable the intelligent estimator to figure the cost of stables intended for public use, as livery stables, or stables where a large number of horses are kept, as the same rules will apply to a very large extent. A good example of a livery and boarding stable was shown and described in Carpentry and Building for the month of March, 1888, well suited for a large town or city, and which may prove useful to those who may require a stable of this kind.

Among the things to be considered in estimating for a stable and its fittings are the following, of each of which the estimator must know the cost before he can close his estimate: Iron grilles, iron light holders, iron stall posts, wrought iron guards, cast iron mangers, automatic feeders, combined mangers and hay racks, corner mangers, pony mangers, wrought iron stall guards, cast iron stall guards, ramp rails for stall partitions, feeding doors in head pieces, box stalls, heel posts, mixing trough, water trough (corner or otherwise), water supply hydrants, open stable gutters, cesspools with bell traps, covered gutters with strainers, covered cesspools with bell traps, angle pieces for stable gutters, sanitary slat flooring, gratings for wood, stone, brick or concrete gutters, manure pit doors in iron or wood, manhole cover, walk box, air bricks, air gratings, ventilators, sidewalk gratings, harness brackets, brush boxes, saddle and bridle brackets, fork, broom and shovel holders, oiling and washing brackets, bit cleaner, girth drier, whip racks, carriage pole brackets, buggy shaft brackets, blanket brackets, cleaning trestles, wheel guards, hitching posts and rings, window guards, weather vanes, stepping stones, drain pipes, catch basins, and all connections with sewerage and water system.