The builder's price bookJ.Taylor, 1804 |
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aftragal and hollow bead and fluſh bead butt bead flush brick Carpenters and Joiners Circular ditto cornice deal Ditto dwarf deal Three inch deal Two inch deal Two pannelled Ditto circular ditto Ditto Ditto double hung Ditto dwarf Ditto ditto Inch Ditto rebated Ditto three ditto Two inch dwarf Ditto raking fafhes feet feven fides Ditto fingle hung flated foffit foot cube foot fuper foot fuperficial Ditto foot running Four pannelled ditto half deal Ditto half deal Framed half deal Three height Ditto Inch and half Inch and quarter inch deal Inch inch ditto inches girt inches wide Joiners Prices Labour and Nails laths mahogany meaſured ogee oil ditto ovolo and flat ovolo faſhes ovolo flat pannelled doors paving plowed and tongued pulley pieces quarter deal Inch quarter round rebated and beaded Six pannelled ditto Slit deal ſquare Three inch deal Twice in oil wainſcot Whole deal ditto Whole deal Inch
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Page i - CONTAINING A CORRECT LIST OF THE PRICES ALLOWED BY THE MOST EMINENT SURVEYORS IN LONDON, TO THE SEVERAL ARTIFICERS CONCERNED IN BUILDING. 5th ed. "Corrected by an Experienced Surveyor.
Page 2 - That if any number of cubit feet is. multiplied by 8 and divided by 9, the quotient will be the number of feet reduced to a brick and a half...
Page 101 - ... the article of Carvers Prices appeared to add to the bulk of the book without a corref•fpondent benefit; we have, therefore, entirely omitted them.