Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them | by George Stephenson
A handbook for the use of builders, decorators, etc.
| Title | Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them |
| Author | George Stephenson |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford |
| Year | 1890 |
| Copyright | 1890, B. T. Batsford |
| Amazon | Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them |
By George Stephenson, Author Of 'Estimating,' Etc., Etc
Preface
The success of my work "Estimating," which has just reached its second edition, has induced me to issue the present one "Repairs," which I hope will meet with acceptance amongst those who wish to learn how to measure or value such work in competition with others.
George Stephenson.
August 1890.
Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them In Competition- In the following short work I have endeavoured to show a clear and easy system for measuring repairs, and valuing them at a low rate of profit so as to compete with others. Where specifications of re...
- Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them In Competition. Continued
- The floors to be repaired and filled up as before, the brass work of locks relacquered and locks repaired. Repair defective bell, tightening the wires, etc. Repair the shelf in cupboard of small bac...
- Measurement
- Before commencing the measuring I must again draw attention to the method of framing the estimate, which for economy I keep in the book. After the whole of the dimensions, etc., are booked, they must ...
- Internal. Top Floor
- Having entered this heading, take the first item in the specification, which is wash, stop, and clerecolle, and white ceilings, and commence to measure. It is best to start from the same corner or a...
- Internal. Top Floor. Part 2
- I have inserted the word No. or number simply to show that 1 or 12, or whatever the number of frames or squares were, had to go in the second column, or where the dimension is put, the first column in...
- Internal. Top Floor. Part 3
- These three last words s. f. dr. stand for square-framed door. These panels should have two more coats of paint than the other repainted parts to bring them forward. This can be added to the descripti...
- Third Floor
- Commence in the room under No. 1 as in the room above. Wash, stop, clerecolle, and white the ceilings and cornices, and finish the cornices in two tints to choice. This is the first item in this roo...
- Second Floor
- On this floor the work increases. The first item in the specification, wash, stop, clerecolle, and white the ceilings, take, in the same manner as before, and take the next one of cornices wall to wal...
- First Floor
- On this floor, rooms 1,2, and 3 of the floors above form one room, the partitions being absent that divide the rooms over, and only room 4 is separate for use as a boudoir. The first item of the sp...
- First Floor. Part 2
- 5.3 -------10. 1 ----9 ---12 1.6 -----2)10.6 ---------5.3 --------This entry is paper at 8s. in panels; the other part of the description is understood. Papers are always priced in specificatio...
- First Floor. Part 3
- ----12. do. 11 -----Ddct. 4.6 Hth. 1.6 ----2/ 6. Chy. Bst. 9 ----The first deduction is the hearth, and the second the chimney breasts, and then after writing Add, enter the strips as be...
- First Floor. Part 4
- The external and party walls are thicker on this floor, and the cross walls of brick, 9 in. thick; this will vary the dimensions. The first item in the specification is the distempering to ceilings...
- First Floor. Part 5
- We next come to the scullery. The ceilings and walls have to be measured as before, including the copper and the M.G. plastering. Then take the painting, then the reglazing, and then the next item of...
- First Floor. Part 6
- ------ stairs 9 wi. ----The waste shows 10 in. tread, 7 in. rise, 1 in. extra girt for nosing; if supered it should be kept separate from other painting because of the extra labour. The only differe...
- First Floor. Part 7
- Take floor after floor in the same manner, noting the variation in the tints of the painting; take the paper all round for the floors above, deducting the wall string of stairs; the dado, of course, f...
- External
- The first item of the specification under this heading is Examine and repair the defective stone coping to parapet. This entails a visit to the roof. Several of the items that follow in the specifi...
- General
- Make good all damage to these premises, and to those adjoining, caused by the workmen in carrying out the foregoing works. This is of course speculative. Broken glass is the principal matter; perhap...
- General. Part 2
- Yds. sup. W. S. and 2ce D. ceilings. do. do. walls. do. W. & 2 0. @ do. 3 ,, @ do. do 2 tints @ do. ...
- General. Part 3
- Now comes the chimney-piece, which is generally priced at the value of 2 yards super, if an ordinary one; the contents can soon be obtained; a plain boxed chimney-piece with 9 in. jambs, 9 in. frieze,...
- General. Part 4
- In providing the new lock, one should be got, if possible, that has the keyhole in the same place as old and the hole for spindle, or the old holes have to be stopped up and new cut, this lock should ...
- General. Part 5
- The mitres to the above come next. Price these at 1d. each. Next comes 131 ft. 3/4-in. O.G. gold moulding on walls. The cost of the moulding is 7s. 6d. per 100 ft.; price the labour at the same a...
- General. Part 6
- The next item of painting is the same as the last one, excepting the carefully pumice down. The value of this additional labour should be priced on the work, the state of which governs the value, mou...
- General. Part 7
- 15 per cent. as profit. No. 1.9 X 6 air grating, and fixing and 4 oils. This grating costs 4d., painting 2d., fixing, including pointing round, 6d.; add profit to these. 102 ft. 6 in. take up old ...
- General. Part 8
- If there are any defective fillets round chimney pots, either price at so much the lot, if small in quantity, or if taken in running feet, price according to the size of the fillet, a fair ordinary si...
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