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Pain, William (1730?-1790?) / Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant.
(1788)

Prices for Carpenter's Day-Bills.,   p. 4


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Prices for CARPENTER's DAY-BILLS. 
For each man per day
For every single hour
For a pair of sawyers cutting old stuff, per day
Fir-timber, per foot cube
Ditto, for use and waste in shoring 
Ditto, for good old fir-timber
Ditto, for good old oak-timber
Ditto, for new oak, in scantling not more than 12 feet and 10 inches square
Ditto, for new oak, die-square
All oak timbers of larger scantlings to increase proportionally in price.
Retail prices of DEALS, BATTENS, &c.
Length of deals.
10 feet 12 feet 14 feet
Thickness
3 inches
2 1/2 inches
2 inches
1 1/2 inches
1 1/4 inches
1 inch
3/4 inch
Slit deal
Feather-edge
Length of battens.
10 feet 12 feet 14 feet
Thickness
3 inches
2 1/2 inches
2 inches
1 1/2 inch
1 1/4 inch
1 inch
3/4 inch
Slit deal
Feather-edge
For all deals 11 inches wide, add 1/6th of the above price.
Clean and second-best whole deals, at per foot superficial.
Clean
Second-best
Clean steps
Second-best
All other thickness in proportion.
Preparing inch white deal flooring-boards, fit for laying, 10 feet boards,
from 2d to
For 12 feet boards, from 2 1/2d to
For 14 feet, from 4d to
Yellow whole deal flooring-boards, well prepared, fir for laying
10 feet, from 2d 1/2 to 3d.
12 feet, from 3d to 3d 1/2 
14 feet, from 4d to 4d 1/2
Wainscot, measured neat, at per foot superficial
Mahogany, measured neat, at per foot superficial
PIECES OF DEAL,
At per foot run,
At per foot superf.
PIECES OF BATTENS,
At per foot run,
At per foot superf.
OAK PLANK, at per foot superficial,
Thickness. New planks.
Old planks.
Oak wedges, per pair,
Fir wedges, per pair,
All other sizes to be charged in proportion.
Lead-weights, per pound
Iron sash-weights,
Small box-pulleys and pins, each
2 inch ditto, each
Wainscot pulleys and boxing, each
Common red and white line per yard
Good white line, per yard
Best white flax-line, per yard
Glue, per pound
Screws, per dozen
Nails and brads, per hundred.
Forty-penny nails
Thirty-penny nails
Two-shilling nails
Twenty-penny nails
Ten-penny nails
Six-penny nails
Four-penny nails
Three-penny nails
Two-penny nails
All larger nails, hold-shafts, wall-hooks, &c. 6d. per pound.
Side-hinges, per pair
HL-hinges, per pair
But-hinges, per pair
Garnet hinges, per pair
With screws
With screws and nails
For all locks, or other ironmongery goods, not here inserted add one-fifth
to the prime-cost.


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