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

Estimate of Prices, for Materials and Labour, and Labour Only, Adapted to the Designs in Pain's British Palladio.,   pp. 8-14


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14 Estimate of Prices &c
Portland stone-chimney-pieces and slabs, not less than 1 inch and 1/4 thick,
per ft superficial
Ditto, 2 inches thick
Ditto 2 inches and 1/2 thick
Slit Ryegate stone hearths and covings at per ft superficial
Whole ditto
Purple marble covings 2 inches thick, per ft sup
Black marble ditto, 3 inches thick
Veined marble chimneys 
Veined marble, per foot cube
Plain work to ditto
Ditto, moulded work
Veined marble slabs, jambs, mantles & c not less than 1 inch 1/8 thick,
per ft superf
Egyptian marble mantles and jambs, at per ft sup
New dove marble, per ft
Ditto, inch slab
New purple marble, per ft
Black and yellow plinths, per ft cube
Plain work to ditto, per ft superf
Sunk work to ditto, at per ft
Ditto, plain jambs, and mantle, at per ft superf
Statuary marble, per foot cube
Lain work to ditto, per ft superficial
Moulded work to ditto
Ditto, circular work, per ft
New inch and 1/2 statuary slabs, jambs and mantle, per ft
New bastard statuary, per ft
Sawing, statuary marble, per ft
Jasper-marble in veneering, per foot superficial, from 1l 5s to 
Sienna-marble in veneering, per ft sup, 1l 5s to
Painting
Painting once in oil, per yard
Outside painting three times in oil, per yard
Inside new work, common colours, per yard
If extraordinary colours, as olive & c per yard
Prepared Prussian-blue per yard
Greens per yard
Sash-frames, done twice in oil, each 9d or
Sash-squares, per dozen, 9d or
Window-lights three times in oil, each
Casements, each
Iron-bars, each
Cloak-pins, twice in oil, per foot run
Sash-frames, three times in oil, each
Ditto, sash-squares, per dozen
Stucco, three times in oil, per yard
Ditto, four times in oil, per yard
Ditto, and sanded, per yard
Fine flat-white, four times in oil, at per yard
Sash-squares, dead-white, per dozen
Mahogany-grained, per yard
Ditto, and varnished. Per yard
Glasier's Work
Newcastle crown, per foot superficial
Best London crown, per foot
Crown-glass, in broad lead cemented, per ft
Plumber's work
Lead to gutters, flats & c per cwt
Ditto, solder, per pound
Ditto, per cwt
Milled lead for hips, sashings, & c per cwt
Three-quarter pipe, per yard
Inch ditto
Inch and quarter, ditto
Inch and half ditto
Two-inch ditto
Three inch and half rain-water pipe, from 2s 4d to
Blacksmith's Work done by Weight
All sorts of hammered work as chimney-bars, stays, upright window bars, shutter-bars,
pump-work bolts, saddle-bars, cramps, hold-fasts, dogs, gudgeons, and all
black-work of the same kind, from 4d per pound to 
Casements, cross window-bars filed, and all such work, from 4d 1/2 per pound
to 
Large screw-bolts, and nuts, at per pound
Iron-doors and shutters, from 10d per pound to
Weight of square iron bars one foot in length, very useful for estimating
iron work
Weight of iron bars one foot in length
Plaisterer's work
Lime and hair mortar on lathing, at per yard
Labour only, from 3 d to 
Common rough casting, from 1s per yard to 
Labour only, from 4d to 
Setting common ceilings with fine stuff, per yard
Rendering one coat rough, per yard
Ditto and set per yard 4 d or
Ditto groins, per yard
Not set, but trowelled smooth for paper
Floated rendering on brick-work, per yard 6d or
Raised chambered rustics, per foot superf
Plain raised fascia, per foot
Counter ceilings on lath per yard
Ditto, set and white
Ditto with strong fir-lath and four-penny nails, washed for painters, at
per yard
Floated lath and plaister, set in plaister and putty, per yard
Ditto in groins
Stucco on bricks, per yard
Ditto on lath
Circular ditto
Bead and quirk to quoins, per foot run
Plain mouldings, 5 inches girth, per foot
Circular ditto
Plain plaister cornices, per foot superficial
Dental ditto
Black cornices, with leaves in the block and flowers in coffers, per foot
Ditto, three members, enriched with flower and bands in the soffit, per foot
Ditto with eye-dental, and whited
Doric cornices, three members, enriched with flower and bands in coffers,
per foot
Plain Ionic modillion-cornice, per foot
Ditto, two members, enriched modillions and flowers in coffers, per foot
Plain Corinthian cornice at per foot
Ditto, fully enriched
Circular ditto, enriched
Ditto frize, enriched with foliage and flowers per foot
Vitruvian scrole, flower and husk, per foot superficial
Circular ditto
Guilochi and flowers, at per foot superficial
The End


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