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8 Estimate of Prices for Materials and Labour and Labour only adapted to
the desgins in Pain's British Pallidio.
Of bricklayer's work
Digging foundations, cess-pools, wells & c according to the quality of
the ground, exclusive of carting away, from 6d per yards to 
New brick -work, laid dry in cess-pools, wells &c with good hard burnt
bricks, at per rod
New brick work in party-walls, & c all place bricks, at per rod
Labour only
Ditto, 3-fourths place bricks, and 1-fourth grey blocks, per rod
Ditto, 3-fourths grey blocks
Ditto all grey blocks
Ditto, half grey blocks
New fronts, faced with the best malm stocks, inside grey stocks, at per rod
Labour only
Labour and mortar
Note, the same sort of walling circular is worth 5 s per rod more than the
strait.
Grates or kitchen ranges faced with grey stocks are worth, per foot reduced
Ovens and coppers are generally measured as solid, only deducting the ash-holes.
 This kind of work is often taken in cube feet, and to reduce these cube
feet to the standard of one brick and a half, multiply the number of cube
feet found by 8 and divide that product by 9, the quotient will be the feet
reduced to the standard of one brick and a half thick.
Outside splays, per foot run
Inside ditto
Red return splays, rubbed and gauged, at per foot run
Ditto, rubbed and gauged up to the quoins
Groins done with red or grey stocks at per foot superficial
Labour only
Rubbed and gauged arches strait or circular set in putty, at per foot, superficial
from
Labour only
Semi-circular or semi-elliptical arches, rubbed, gauged and set in putty
from 
Labour only
Brick coping and plain tile creasing, with two course plain tiles under brick
on edge at per foot run
Brick nogging done with place bricks laid flat, at per yard
Ditto, laid edge ways Ditto with grey stocks, flat
Ditto on edge
The quartering to be measured, in labour only per yard
Ditto on edge from
Ditto, laid flat in sand
Ditto on edge in sand
Paving with paving bricks flat in mortar at per yard
Ditto on edge
Brick paving laid flat mortar and labour at per yard
Ditto on edge, mortar and labour
Labour only
New foot-tiles paving in mortar from 5 1/2 d per foot superficial to 
New 10 inch tile paving, laid in mortar 4 d per foot to
Note preparing and levelling the ground to be charged by the day
Foot-tiles made for paving ovens & c must be charged at per tile
And if the tops be rubbed smooth and gauged there must be allowed per foot
superficial
To pointing down fronts, tuck and pat, new work superficial from 4d per foot
to
New plain tiling-lath with single lath hart per square
Ditto with double hart-lath
Labour only from 4s per square to 
Note one square of plain tiling will take 690 tiles at 7-ich gauge, 7-inch
and a half gauge will take 640 tiles to one square
To a square of plain tiling should be allowed one peck of tile-pins 2 bushels
of lime, 5 bushels of land 1 bundle of laths and 600 nails
Slating per square, with Westmoreland green slate on boards from 2l 10s per
square to 
One ton of slate will lay 2 squares labour only per square
New pantiling laid dry with hips and ridges laid in mortar at per foot square
including lath
New