APPENDIX. 



739 



SCOTCH PRICES. 



Cost of brickwork in Scotland, top price, and 

 considering the workmanship and all material 

 to be of the best description and quality. 



Solid walls. — 2-brick, or 20-inch walls solid, 

 builder finding all material and scaffolding, (but 

 exclusive of digging foundations,) within three 

 miles of a brick field, or brick depot, and six 

 miles from lime, £14 per rood of 36 yards. For 

 l^-brick, or 15-inch work, £10, 10s. ; for 10-inch, 

 or 1-brick work, £6, 18s. ; and for 5-inch walls, 

 £3, 10s. 



Hollow walls. — 2-brick, or 20-inch work, ties 

 every 2 feet, £10, 7s. ; 15 inches, £8, 10s. Fle- 

 mish bond, to be wrought fair on both sides, 

 and joints to be kept perpendicular, no four 

 courses to exceed 14 inches in height. 



For labour only, proprietor finding all mate- 

 rial and scaffolding. For 20-inch walls, whether 

 solid or hollow, £2, 5s. ; 15-inch walls, 42s. ; 

 10-inch walls, 30*s. ; 5-inch walls, 18s.— the latter 

 pointed on one side only, the others pointed on 

 both sides. 



If the distance exceeds three miles from a 

 brick-field, the extra expense can be easily cal- 

 culated by adding the carriage of bricks from a 

 greater distance, taking 1000 bricks at 3 tons. 



1 ton of lime is allowed for hollow walls per 

 rood of 36 yards, and 1 § tons for a solid wall is 

 an ample allowance. 



Average price at present (1852) of common 

 bricks of the very best quality for garden walls, 

 at Wishaw Works, near Hamilton, 21s. 6d. per 

 1000 ; at Edinburgh, 25s. ; at Glasgow, 23s. ; at 

 Perth, 25s. ; at Aberdeen, 25s. 



Composition bricks, manufactured by Mr 

 Dean, of the Wishaw Works, of a larger size 

 than ordinary bricks, of a soft stone-colour, and 

 warranted to stand all weathers, being made 

 chiefly for horticultural purposes, 27s. 6d. to 

 30s. per 1000. These bricks have been pro- 

 nounced by a celebrated London architect as 

 very superior in quality, and absorbing less 

 water than any before submitted to his inspec- 

 tion. 



Fire-bricks, at the same works, 35s. per 1000 ; 

 at Edinburgh, 45s.; at Glasgow, 40s. ; at Perth, 

 45s. ; at Aberdeen, 45s. 



The above prices are the field prices. 



Fire-clay per ton, from 7s. to 8s. at the works. 



Concrete for foundations, £4 to £4, 10s. per 

 rood, calculating that coarse gravel or stone- 

 chips have not to be carted above one mile. 



9-inch paving- tiles, 2 inches thick, £6 per 

 1000, weigh 4 tons, being thicker than the Lon- 

 don ones ; 12-inch ditto, £8, weigh about 6 tons. 



1 load of bricks, 350 in number. 



1 ditto of tiles for roofing, 500 in number, 

 weigh nearly 1 ton 7 cwt. 



The following are Mr Dean's calculations for 

 brickwork in cement in Scotland : — 1 rod of 272 

 feet superficial, of a 1 5-inch orbrick-and-half wall, 

 distance from brick-field, say three miles, £12, 

 contractor finding all material, labour, &c. ; the 

 same for cement and labour only, £5 ; and 

 5-inch walls in proportion to the above price, 

 taking the cement at 8s. per barrel, and to be 

 mixed with one-half of sharp sand to one of 



cement ; and for labour only £3, 2s. and 20s. 

 respectively, according to thickness. 



36 bushels of cement, with the same quantity 

 of sharp sand, will do a rod of brickwork. 



Tuck-pointing new walls, 12s. per 100 feet 

 superficial. If the wall is old, and requires 

 washing down and colouring, and the joints 

 raked, add 4s. per 100 feet superficial. 



Flat-joint pointing. — With blue mortar, an 

 excellent method, 8s. per 100 feet superficial. 

 If old walls, requiring cleaning and colouring, 

 and the joints raked out, 10s. per 100 feet super- 

 ficial. In both cases, if there are many decayed 

 bricks to be taken out and renewed, this latter 

 is not included in the above charges. These are 

 Scotch prices. 



The prices of labour should always depend on 

 the abilities of the workman. One bricklayer 

 will lay 1000 bricks in one day, in 14-inch work, 

 and 1250 in walls of greater thickness, while 

 others cannot lay 700. Wages for first-rate 

 English bricklayers, employed in Scotland, at 

 the rate of ten hours per day, are from 5s. to 

 4s. 6d. ; for ordinary men, 4s. ; and bricklayers' 

 labourers receive 2s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. per day. 

 These are masters' prices, and taken as an 

 average for Scotland. There is no economy in 

 employing common labourers in such work, as 

 the preparation of the material and service 

 depends upon them. 



ENGLISH PRICES. 



From Skirving's very useful " Builders' Price- 

 Book," published annually, we extract the fol- 

 lowing data as to quantity and cost in the 

 neighbourhood of London. There are two sorts 

 of bricks in ordinary use about London used 

 for horticultural purposes — namely, stock and 

 place bricks : the former are the best. 



" 5000 place, or 4750 stock bricks, laid dry 

 in wells and cesspools, 4500 place, or 4300 

 stock bricks, laid in mortar in external and 

 party walls, will build 1 rod ; 27 bushels of 

 chalk-lime, and 3 loads of road-drift, (a substi- 

 tute for sand,) 18 bushels of stone-lime, 3^ loads 

 of sand, will do 1 rod of reduced brickwork." 

 This difference in number does not arise from a 

 difference in size, but from greater breakage in 

 the one case than in the other. 



The following is given by the same authority 

 as the masters' prices per rod, in party and 

 external walls. Stock bricks are considered 

 superior to place bricks in the proportion of 30 

 to 22 — that is to say, when the former are 

 worth £1, 10s. per 1000, the latter are only 

 worth £1, 2s., which, at this time, (1852,) is the 

 average price of both near London, delivered at 

 the work; and £1 and 18s. respectively, in the 

 field. Bricks, like most other materials, are 

 subject to sudden rises and depressions in price : 

 for example, in our return of present prices, 

 Dec. 20th, we find them quoted at 28s. and 35s. 

 respectively at Kingston-on-Thames. In making 

 calculations, the field price should be ascertained 

 first, and the rise or fall added to, or deducted 

 from, which will leave our calculations in other 

 respects correct. 



If all place bricks, contractor finding all mate- 



