5.3

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----9

---12

1.6

-----2)10.6

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--------This entry is paper at 8s. in panels; the other part of the description is understood. Papers are always priced in specifications as "exclusive of hanging." The other walls can be taken in the same manner, dividing them into panels of about the same size. The dimensions of the paper may be obtained, if you choose, by subtracting the superficial contents of the distempered margins from the "strip walls," but you have the border to take, and these are easiest taken from the round of the panel; add the length and width of the panel above together, and twice it, and you get the dimension for border.

2/ 28.6 Bord. at 6d.

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5.3

----14.3 2

------28.6

2/ 4. M

No corners are described, so they would have to be mitred at the angles. Measure all the panels first, and then all the borders, then the mitres.

To measure the distempered stiles, etc, take the 12.0 as the width of wall and twice it and add the 3 stiles: 2/ 12. Dist stile 6" wi.

---3/ 9. do.

----10. 1

------9

----The figures on waste show how this 9.0 was arrived at. It is, of course the same length as the panels. You will follow, after the above dimensions, with those to other walls; the stiles will of course all be 9.0; these may be added to the left hand of the others taken above. The parts over the doors, windows, and chimney-pieces must, of course, be treated to the fancy of the architect; he may require a panel to be formed over the doors and over the chimney-pieces, or he may leave the bottom line out where the door or chimney-piece comes. Windows nearly always run up to the cornice, and in rooms of this description down to the floor, or where they do not there is a window back of wood. Take the deductions as they occur, where panel or margin comes over a doorway or chimney-piece. The next item of the specification is "Put gilt enrichment on wood at wall line of cornice, and 1-inch ogee gold moulding on top of skirting."

Take these in the same manner as the former gold mouldings, the round of the walls as measured for cornices, etc.; strip walls, etc, being the length required. Take the mitres, not omitting the four to each chimney breast; take the enriched moulding separate from the plain one, and the mitres separate, as there will be extra labour to the "enriched" ones. Deduct the doors, chimney-pieces, windows, etc, being careful in each case to put the words Add or Ddct. as a heading before commencing the one after the other is completed.

The next item in the specification is, "Carefully pumice down the painted work, and paint in three oils, finished in three tints."

Measure this as before, and either keep it separate and price it out where it is entered, or enter an item of pumice, etc., to work on this floor, and then take it when squared to the abstract of other three tints, pricing out the pumice, etc, where it is entered. There are shutters; take the backs, boxings, rebates, etc, keeping the backs separate, as 3 oils; they will not be finished in three tints. Next comes, "Put small gold cock-bead, or other mould chosen, mitred round panels of doors and shutters, leaving a margin of 1 1/2 in. between the gilt moulding and the present painted one."

This distance of 1 1/2 in. is rather wide from the other moulding, unless the doors are large. The measurement is an easy one. Take three inches off the length of panel, and off the width, and add the two together and twice them, and twice this for the top panel, and measure again for the bottom one, say the top panel is 3 feet between the painted mouldings, and 9 inches wide between them. Then enter thus: -

The first dimension is twiced for the other top panel, and twice for two doors, presuming them to be of the same dimensions; the second dimension is for the bottom panels, and "on waste" we have the two margins of 1 1/2 in. -3 in. deducted from the length of panel, then underneath from the width; then the two are added together and multiplied by two; then come the dimensions of the bottom panels, showing how the four feet is made up; then the mitres are taken 4 to each panel, 4 times this for each door, and twice the whole for two doors. The shutter fronts measure in the same manner, and the moulded soffitte panels, if there is a soffitte, and the panels to window backs, if there are any.

The next item is, "Take off the present defective knobs to lock furniture, and put new spindles of Pitt's patent, with cut-glass knobs." Enter: 1. Set of Pitt's furne.

Cut gla. knobs, including taking off old and fixing.

Next comes the brass work of locks to be relacquered as before, the espagnolette and other bolts to windows and the ormolu ornaments of the stoves also. Number these in the manner shown previously; give the length in the description of the espagnolette bolt, thus: 2/ 1. Espag. relacquered 7 .0 long.

If all the windows to this room have these bolts it is certain there are no window backs, as the espagnolette is only used to the long casements. There is a small bolt of similar kind, French or Belgian make, used for smaller casements.

The next item is, "Clean the stoves and chimney-pieces, as before."Number these as last, describing the bright stoves, and the chimney-pieces, if elaborate, should have some description beyond chimney-pieces.

The next is, "The floors of these rooms to have extra care taken with them in filling up the open joints and levelling down all knots or joints, so as to present a perfectly smooth surface." Take the entire surface as planed, as well as measuring all the strips required, and note the state of the surface of the boards as a guide in pricing, whether there are any knots projecting, or any boards above the others, etc. The planing is not a heavy item if there are no knots standing up (from heavy wear); the nails must be carefully punched and the floor searched for any carpet pins before the planing can be done. Enter the planing as follows, and then the strips: 36.6 Plag, floor.