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Pain, William (1730?-1790?) / The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale.
(1792)
Retail Prices of Deals, Battens, &c.
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 scantlings not more than 12 feet and 10 inches square Ditto for new oak die square All oak timbers of larger scantlings to increase proportionably in price Retail prices of deals, battens & c. Pieces of deals Slit Feather-edge Pieces of Battens Clean and second best whole deals at per foot superficial Preparing inch white deal flooring boards fit for laying Yellow whole deal flooring boards well prepared fit for laying Wainscot measured neat Mahogany measured neat
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