----12. do.

11

-----Ddct.

4.6 Hth.

1.6

----2/ 6. Chy. Bst.

•9

----The first deduction is the hearth, and the second the chimney breasts, and then after writing Add, enter the strips as before, and take the next item in specification, "Repair both bells, tighten the wires, and put new furniture to match that on door."

Number these bells, and enter the value at once, as there is apparently so little to do to them, and then enter: 2 Cut gl. levers to Bells and take off old.

Next comes " the knobs on shutters to be taken off and new ones provided, and fixed, of cut glass as to doors." These enter: 2 Cut gla. knob to shutt. and fix. and times this 2 by the number of windows.

The next item to take is, "Provide and fix circular glass hit-and-miss ventilators in windows as before." These must be numbered, i. e. entered as No. 3 or 5, whichever it may be. With this item the drawing-rooms are completed as far as the specification refers to them; as there is no separate description for the small room, it is presumed it is to be treated in a similar manner to the drawing-rooms; this would have to be measured item for item, as the larger room or rooms were measured, and then, leaving the landing and stairs, proceed to the ground floor. Put in the heading Ground Floor.

Take first the dining-rooms, for by the description we presume the two larger rooms, Nos. 1 and 2, are here in one, an exceedingly awkward shape for a dining-room, 36.6 14.0. The first item in the specification is, "The ceilings, cornices, and centre flowers, to be prepared and finished in the same manner as drawing-rooms, omitting the stencilling." This is a mere repetition of the measuring to ceilings, etc., above. "Strip the walls, repair them, and prepare for and paper with paper of the value of 6s. per piece, exclusive of hanging;" this is the next item in the specification. Here there is no " hanging in panels," so the strip walls and paper may go together as before, and the measurement will, not forgetting the deductions, be taken as to upper floors, the height being taken from dado capping to cornice. And next we come to the painting, which is here separated into two or three items. Take the first item of " Wash and rub down the painted dadoes of these rooms and paint three oils, finished Turkey red and once varnished, the skirting and capping to be finished in darker colours to choice." The easiest method to measure this is take the round of the room from that of the paper, and deduct the windows, chimney-pieces, doors, etc, from it on waste as given under: 68. W. & 3 0. Turkey red

3. 1ce V

----36.6 14

----50.6 2

----101. 3

-----Ddct. 104. 10. 18.

8

---- 36

-----68

This waste is the length and width added as before and twiced, then the projections of two chimney breasts each 9 in. added; then under the heading (or waste) of Ddct. there is 10 ft. for two chimney-pieces, 18 ft. for four windows, and 8 ft. for two doors; these being added together and subtracted from the 104 ft, leaving 68 ft. to be carried to the left hand for dimension; subtracting this on waste will save a lot of dimensions and squaring. If the length of 104 ft were entered in the dimension instead of the net 68 ft, the deductions would have to be entered in detail as follows: Ddct.

2/ 5.

3

---- Chy.-pce.

2/2/ 4.6

3

---- Wo.

2/ 4

3. Dr.

This shows a good deal more work, the dado being 4 ft. from the floor line, not girting mouldings, subtract the height of skirting (12 in.) from it, leaving 3 ft. as the height. As there is extra work in this dado it should be priced where it stands in the book and not abstracted with the other painting. The capping has been measured in with the dado, so take a running dimension of 68. Ext. on one sha. to ------ Capping.

This is not one coat extra, but the extra labour entailed in cutting in clean on painted work next it. Then take the skirting as a separate item, including the cutting in, in different shade: 68. W. & 3.o as bef.

1. Turkey red ice V.

---As before is shortened to "as bef." Although this is taken as a superficial dimension it will be easiest priced when we come to it as a run 12 in. wide.

The next item is the painting to the other work. Measure it as before, noting the number of "tints."

We next come to "Put 3/4 ogee gilt moulding under cornice, and on top of capping, mitred at angles, and round all projections." Measure this in the same manner as before; the length of cornice gives you the top, and the length of dado the bottom dimension; take the mitres as before.

Next we have, "The floors of these rooms to be treated in the same manner as drawing-rooms." Take the measurements in the same way as to drawing-rooms, a superficial dimension for planing and the length of strips, and any new boards, etc., needed, deducting the hearths, chimney breasts, etc.

The next item is "The bells to be repaired, if necessary, as before." Test or examine them by pulling the levers down to see if they ring, most probably they require the wires tightened, as the others did.

"The brasswork relacquered" is the next item in the specification. This is of course to be taken as before; as there are sashes on this floor, there are the sash fasteners to take instead of the bolts, &c; face plates of locks, brass handles, ormolu ornaments, if any. The next item is, "Glass ventilators to be fixed, one to each room, similar to those before described." This would no doubt mean two to this room, one at each end.

The description in the specification is the same for Library as Dining-room, so proceed to measure the Library in the same manner, and then, leaving the Hall and Stair case, take the Basement. Enter the heading Basement.

As the rooms here are different to those above, we give a rough sketch of this floor.