height and breadth, and estimated by the square foot, stating the thickness, and both edges are girted on the face. Fluted pilasters are taken in the same way, girting over the fillets and into the flutes; and if the edges or returns are fluted, they are also girted in; but if they are planted returns, not fluted, they are taken as plain work, when above 2 inches broad. Cabled or reeded pilasters are taken as such, and the thickness in all cases stated. The bases and capitals of both plain and fluted pilasters are taken by themselves, as the mouldings of the pilasters.

Solid columns are taken by their height and greatest diameter; and when their mouldings are turned out of the solid, the diameter is taken at the base. The shafts of built columns are taken superficially by the whole height, and by the girt of the greatest diameter, and allowed two measures. When columns are fluted and reeded, they are taken as such; and if reeds are planted in, they are taken lineally. The bases and capitals are measured as mouldings, and allowed double

measure.

Facings, skirtings, base-plinths, and door-stops, under § inches broad, are reduced to 4 inches broad; and all above 8 inches broad are taken as plain linings.

The stanchel part of railing is taken by the yard, stating the size of the stanchels and distance between ; the posts and rails are reduced to 4 inches broad. The posts of the rail are included in the surface-measure.

The Chinese part of railing is measured by the square yard, as such, and the posts reduced to 3 inches square, and the rails to 4 inches broad, stating the thickness.

The square steps of timber stairs are taken by their length and by girting over the step and breast, allowing an inch of cover to each. The wheel steps are taken at their extreme length, and by girting at the mean breadth, allowing 3 inches on each step for cutting. Spring-boards and brackets are taken by the square foot, specifying their thickness.

Stair hand-rails are taken by the lineal foot, stating the quality. Circular parts are double measure, twist and circle three measures, and the measure taken round the scroll.

NOTE. In measuring rough cubical timber, one inch is allowed on the whole girt for bark, and no rough timber under 6 inches diameter is accounted measurable.

1. What is the value of a sash-window which measures feet 10 inches by 3 feet 8 inches, at 2s. per square foot? Ans. £2, 10s. 1ld

2. How many square yards of roofing and sarking are in house 60 feet long from skew to skew, and each side of the

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oof 22 feet, allowing 9 inches for the breadth of the walllate; and what is the value of it, at 9s. 6d. per square yard?

3. How many yards of flooring in a house of three stories, 56 feet by 28 feet within the walls, deducting the vacancy for the stair, 13 feet by 8 feet; and what is the value, at 5s. 6d. Ans. £134, 4s. per square yard?

4. How much wainscoting in a room 25 feet by 18 feet, and 14 feet 3 inches high when girt over the mouldings, allowing a door 7 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 4 inches, and 2 windows with shutters, each 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 6 inches, and a chimney 6 feet 4 inches by 5 feet 6 inches; the doors and shutters being charged work and half work?

Ans. 135 yards 7 feet. 5. A partition is 173 feet 10 inches in length, and 10 feet 7 inches in height. How many squares are in it? Ans. 18.39736 squares.

6. How many yards of flooring and joisting in a house of 3 floors, 48 feet by 27 within walls, allowing 9 inches for the rests of the joists, and deducting from each floor the vacancy for the stair, 12 feet by 8 feet 3 inches; and what is the expense of the materials and workmanship, the joisting and flooring at 7s. 6d. per yard, and the naked joisting at 3s. 6d. per yard? Ans. £153, 163. 6d.

PLASTER WORK.

PLAIN plaster work is measured by the square yard, stating the number of coats and the quality of the finishings.

Upright circular walls, soffits of arches, coves, &c. are allowed double measure. Domes and tops of niches are allowed three measures. When new and old plaster are joined, an allowance is made of one foot for splicing; and when mouldings are put on plain plaster, to form pannels, the whole wall is taken as plain plaster, and the mouldings are taken again by the lineal foot.

Where stiles are raised, the general superficies of the wall is measured as pannelled plaster. The stiles and mouldings are taken by the lineal foot, stating the breadth.

These rules apply to ceilings as well as walls, and to mouldings, whether plain or enriched.

All circular mouldings on domes are double measure.

Pannelled soffits of arches, and pannelled scontions of stairwindows, are taken by girting over the mouldings both ways; and if at or above 12 inches broad, they are estimated by the square foot; but if under 12 inches, by the lineal foot, stating the breadth.

Architraves of arches are taken as other mouldings.

Plain cornices, at or above 12 inches in girt, are taken by the square foot, and all under that by the lineal foot.

Enriched cornices are measured in the same way, stating the number and nature of the enrichments; and for all mitres in a room, &c. more than four, one foot is allowed for each, whether external or internal.

Plain and enriched entablatures are measured by the square foot, by girting from the ceiling down to the plain plaster of the walls; and the number and quality of the enrichments must be stated.

Entablatures on the bottom of coves are measured on the upper bed, as far as the mould goes back, and down to the plain plaster.

If the ornaments and mouldings on a ceiling do not exceed 12 inches in their distance from each other, the whole ceiling is taken by the superficial foot, as an ornamented one; but when their distance exceeds 12 inches, the mouldings and margins are taken in the same way as pannelled plaster.

Centre ornaments above 3 feet diameter are taken by the square foot, and all at or under that by the piece, stating the

size.

Heads, trusses, and other detached ornaments, are reported by the number and size.

Plaster beads are taken as plain mouldings, and relieved corner beads by the lineal foot, as double cut.

1. How much plastering on a partition 7 feet 8 inches long and 10 feet 3 inches high, deducting a door 6 feet 3 inches by 2 feet 10 inches; and what will it cost, at 5d. per yard?

6 yards 6 feet 10 inches content, at 5d. is 2s. 93d.

2. How many square yards of plastering on the walls and

iling of a room 30 feet long, 25 broad, and 12 high, deductg 3 windows, each 8 feet 2 inches by 5 feet, 2 doors, each feet by 3 feet 6 inches, and a fireplace 4 feet 6 inches by feet 10 inches, the sides of the windows behind the shutters eing plastered, and measuring 8 feet 2 inches by 15 inches ; nd what will it cost, at 61d. per square yard?

Ans. 215 yards 3 feet, cost £5, 12s. 1d.

SLATERS' WORK.

QUARE roofs are girted for their deepness from the top of the dge downwards, allowing 9 inches for the double eaves, ad for the length between the skews, and 6 inches more for

over.

Chimney-stalks, and all voids above 4 square feet of dayght, are deducted, but allowing the double eaves above such penings, and also 9 inches for cutting along each side; but o deductions are made at or under 4 square feet.

Stormont and roof windows are measured according to the orm of the different parts, and 9 inches by the length allowed or every cutting on peends, flanks, and skews.

Close flanks made waterproof without lead are allowed louble of a common flank for cutting.

Circular work and dome roofs are double measure. Ridge tones are reported by the lineal foot.

Tile roofs are measured in the same way as slate roofs, but 10 allowance for double eaves, unless when slate eaves are out on, in which case 6 inches more than what is seen is alowed on the slating for cover.

The pointing of slate or tile roofs is measured as beforestated, but no allowance for cutting or for eaves. The deepness of the plaster is to be added to the length of the roof. Slate and tile roofs are estimated by the rood of 36 yards.

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1. How much slating is in a roof 46 feet long, and 18 feet from the coping to the eaves? Ans. 5 roods 11 yards 6 feet. 2. How much slating is on the roof of a square building with a platform, the length at the eaves 72 feet, and at the platform 40 feet; the breadth from the platform to the eaves 12 feet, and along the hips 14 feet?

Ans. 8 roods 34 yards 14 feet. 3. Required the content of a tile roof 42 feet 7 inches long, and 16 feet 10 inches from the ridge to the eaves; and what does it amount to, at £3, 15s. per rood?

Ans. £16, 11s. 101d.

4. Required the expense of a slate roof measuring 48 feet 6 inches in length, and 24 feet from ridge to eaves, breadth of the wall-plate 9 inches, reckoning the roofing and sarking at 78. per square yard, and the slating, including slates, at £5,8%. per rood. Ans. £133, 78. 6d.

PAINTERS' WORK.

PLAIN painting is measured wherever the brush touches, and estimated by the square yard, stating the colour and quality, whether oil or size, and the number of coats.

Party-coloured work is measured first as plain work, and then the stiles and mouldings are taken and estimated by the lineal foot, according to the number of different colours; and this rule applies to skifting and mouldings of a room, when different colours form the general body of the work.

An allowance of 6 inches for each enrichment in cornices is added to the girt, when enriched cornices are picked in; and if at or above one foot of girt, they are taken by the super ficial foot; all under that girt by the lineal foot. In both cases, the number of enrichments are to be stated, besides being included along with the plain work with which it may class.

Ornamented ceilings are measured in the same way plaster work.

Mock mouldings in passages, staircases, &c. are reported by the lineal foot. Outsides of windows are allowed one-fourth more than the net daylight.

Stanchel-railing, at or under 6 inches in the open, is allowed double measure; above 6 and under 9 inches, measure and half; from 9 to 12 inches, one and one-fourth; and all above that, single measure. Stanchels put into windows are taken by including one of the side spaces between the stanchel and the rybats.

Ornamented railing on stairs is allowed double measure, and figures of every description are reported by number.

1. How much painting on a wall 14 feet by 94 feet, deducting the chimney, 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 10 inches; and what does it come to, at 10d. per square yard?

Ans. Content 12 yards 72 feet, value 10s. 8d. 2. A room is 20 feet long, 14 feet 6 inches broad, and 10 feet 4 inches high. How much painting is in it, deducting a fireplace 4 feet 4 inches by 4 feet, and 2 windows, each 6 feet by 3 feet 2 inches? Ans. 73 yards of foot. 3. Required the expense of painting a room 28 feet long