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Quantities; A Text-Book for Surveyors, in Tabulated Form, Explanatory of the Best Methods Adopted in the Measurement of Builder's Work Copiously Illustrated and Containing Also Tables of the Various Trades with Tables of Constants

Quantities; A Text-Book for Surveyors, in Tabulated Form, Explanatory of the Best Methods Adopted in the Measurement of Builder's Work Copiously Illustrated and Containing Also Tables of the Various Trades with Tables of Constants


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...the different descriptions of labour with the various articles to which they refer. Thus, commence with the floors, and abstract and bill all labours appertaining to the floors before commencing the skirtings. The same with the skirtings. Then take sashes and frames, doors, linings, shutters, staircases, water-closets, &c &c, keeping them all separate, as shown in the Table. Many surveyors do not follow this course, but prefer to arrange them all according to their thicknesses, without regard to what they refer to, commencing the list with those of the least thickness, and proceeding in this way to that of the greatest thickness. These different thicknesses are again arranged according to the quality of the work, that of the least value being placed first. With all due deference to those who follow this course, I think that which I have proposed to be the best, and therefore recommend its adoption. This Table is not intended to include every description of labour in the trade. In a work like the present this would be unadvisable, and indeed impracticable. I have, however, given sufficient examples to enable the reader fully to understand the text of the book, the method of measurement, and the order of taking out, abstracting and billing them. I have also made them as diversified as possible, as will be seen on reference to it. The whole of the various items are presumed in the present case to be in deal, for the sake of making the Table as short as possible. Where the work is in oak or mahogany, it should be kept separate from the deal, and brought into bill after the whole of the deal has been abstracted. Where both oak and mahogany appear, it is customary to give the oak precedence. French polishing, where described in the specification, must als...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236388001
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236388003
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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