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i!\i59. Mouldings, as in (loul)lL'-face architraves, Iiase and sm-base, or straight oucs struck
i)y the hand, are valued by the foot super. Base, surbase, and straight mouldings wrought
liy hand, are generally fixed at the same rate per foot, being something more than double-
faced architraves. When the head of an architrave stands in a circular wall, its value is
four times that of the perpendicular jiarts as well on account of the extra time required to
(it it to the circular plan as of ihe greater difficulty in forming the mitres. So all hori-
zontal mouldings on a circular plan are three or four times the value of those on a straight
])lan, the trouble being increased as the radius of the circle upon which thev are formed
diminishes. The housings of mouldings are valued by the piece. The value of mouldings
much depends on the number of their quirks, for each whereof the price increases. It will
also, of course, dejiend on the materials of which they are formed, on their running figure,
and whetlier raking or curved.
2S60. Among the articles which are to be measured
!)y the lineal foot are beads, fillets,
bead or ogee capiiing, scjuare angle staffs, inch ogees, inch quirk ogee, ovolo and bead,
astrag Is and reeds on doors or shutters, small reeds, each in i-eeded mouldings, struck I)v
hand up to half an inch, single cornice or architrave, grooved space to let in reeds anil
grooves. And it must be observed, that in grooving, stops are paid extra
;
if wrouii;ht bv
hand, still more; and yet more if circular. Besides the foregoing, narrow grounds to
skirting, the same rebated or framed to chimneys, are measured by the foot run. Rule
joints, cantilevers, trusses, and cut brackets for shelves are charged by the piece. Water
trunks are value! accor.ling to their size by the foat run, their hopper heads and shoes
being valued by the piece. Moulded weather caps and joints by the piece. Scaffolding,
where extra, must be allowed for.
2361. Flooring boards are prepared according to their length, not so much each
;
the
stand:ird width is
9
inches; if they are wider, the rate is increased, each board listing at so
much per list. Battens are prepared in the same way, hut at a difTerent rate.
'J;562. The following memoranda are useful in estimating:

I hundred
(120) 1 2-feet-.'5-inch deals,
9 inches wide (each deal containing, therefore,
2 feet 3 inches cube), equal 5? loads of timber.
I hundred
(120) 12-feet-2i-incli deals, 9 inches wide (each deal containing,
therefore,
] foot 10 inches cube), erjual
4|
loads of timber.
1 hundred
(120) 1 2- feet 1
i-
inch deals equal 1 reduced hundred.
1 load of 1 .^-inch plank, or deals, is 400 feet superficial.
1 load of 2-inch plank, or deals, is 300 feet su])erficial.
And so on in proportion.
Twenty-four 10-feet boards, at a 5-inch guage, will finish one square.
'I'wenty 10-feet boards, at 6-incli guagc, will finish one square.
Se\cnteen lO-feet boards, at a7-incli guage, will finish one S(]uare.
Fifteen 10-feet boards, at an 8-incii guage, will finish one square.
Thirteen 10-feet boards, and 2 ft. 6 in. super, at a 9-inch guage, will finish one square.
Twelve 10-feet boards, and 2 ft. 6 in super., at a 10-inch guage, will finish one square.
Twenty 12-feet boards, at a 5-ini.-'i guage, will finish one scpiare.
Sixteen 12-feet boards, at a 6-inch guage, will finish one square.
Fourteen 12-feet boards, at a 7- inch guage, will finish one sijunre.
Twelve i2-fei.'t lioards and 4 feet super., at an 8-inch guage, wdl finish one
s(iuare.
Eleven 12-f'eet boards, and 1 foot super., at a 9-incii guage, will finish one sijuaie.
Ten 12-feet board-i, and 1 foot super., at a 10-inch guage, will finish one square.
Battens are 6 inches wide.
Deals are 9 inches wide.
I'lanks are 1 1 inches wide.
Feather-edged deals are equal to ^-inch yellow deals; if white, equal to slit deal.
A reduced deal is 1^-inch tliink, 11 inches wide, and 12 feet long,
2363. It may here be useful to advert to the mode of reducing deals to the standard of
B'hat is called a reduced deal, which evidently contains I ft. 4 in, 6 parts culie; for 12 ft.
xllin. xllin. =1 :446, or in decimals, 12 ft. x '91666 ft. x-125 ft.= !-375
cube ft.
nearly. Hence the divisor
1
'375 will serve as a constant for reducing deals of different
lengths and tliicknesses. Thus let it be required to find how many reduced deals there are
in one 14 feet long, 10 inches wide, and
2|
niches tiiick. Here 14 ft. x -8333 ft. (or 10 in.)
X
-20833 (or
2i
in.)
=2-43042 cube feet, and
'
''.^"'l^'
= 1-767 reduced deal.
2364. Tlie table which is now subjoined exhibits the prices of deals and parts thereof
calculated from 30/. to 95/. per hundred, a range of value cut of which it can rarely happen
that examples will occur, thougli it has fallen within our own experience during the late
war to see the ])rice of deals at a very extraordinary height, lliis, however, is not likely to
liappen again, 'i'lie elements on which it is based are