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APPENDIX. 



rial, labour, &c, £9, 15s. per rod; if lime and 

 labour only, £4 ; if labour only, £2. Three 

 quarter place bricks, and one quarter stocks, 

 contractor finding all material and labour, 

 £10, 5s.; lime and labour only, £4; and if 

 labour only, £2. If half place and half stock, 

 contractor finding all material, &c, £10, 10s. ; 

 if lime and labour only, £4 ; and if labour only, 

 £2. If three quarter stocks and one quarter 

 place bricks, £11 ; lime and labour, or labour 

 only, same as above. If all stocks, £11, 10s.; 

 lime and labour, or labour only, same as above. 



Brick walls done in the best manner, the 

 bricks picked for the outside, and jointed, four 

 courses not to exceed 11^ inches, £12, contrac- 

 tor finding all material, labour, &c. ; for lime 

 and labour, £4, 4s. ; and for labour only, £2, 2s. 

 per rod. If the work is done with stone-lime, 

 add 5s. per rod for material and labour ; 5s. 

 per rod for lime and labour. If done with 

 river sand, add the same as above. 



As regards garden walls, the London practice 

 is, where both sides are wrought fair and 

 jointed, to add 10s. per rod, or Id. per foot 

 superficial, on one side, when all material and 

 labour is furnished by the contractor ; or Is. 2d. 

 per foot when lime and labour only is supplied ; 

 and the same when labour only is found. 



The usual mode of building garden walls 

 round London is four stretchers and a header, 

 and is called garden- wall bond. 



Concrete for foundations of walls. — In the 

 proportion of 1 of lime to 6 of gravel, exclusive 

 of digging, 7s. per cubic yard, or £3, 19s. 4d. 

 per rod. In regard to the variation in the 

 price of bricks, the London practice is to allow 

 5s. per rod, either of addition or reduction, 

 for every shilling the bricks rise or fall per 1000. 



London made bricks weigh 2 tons 5 cwt. per 

 1000, or 5 lb. each brick. 9-inch paving-tiles, 

 £8 per 1000— weight, 2 tons 18 cwt., or 6| lb. 

 each; 10-inch do., £9, 10s. per 1000 — weight, 

 3 tons 11 cwt. 1 lb., or 8 lb. each; 12-inch do., 

 £9, 15s. per 1000— weight, 5 tons 7 cwt. 16 lb., 

 or 12 lb. each. 



1 load of bricks, 500 in number, weighs 1 ton 

 2\ cwt. ; 1 load of tiles for roofing, 1000, weighs 

 1 ton 1 1 cwt. : they are smaller and lighter 

 than Scotch made ones. 



Brickwork in Roman cement. — If all stock 

 bricks are used, £14 per rod, contractor find- 

 ing all material and labour; £6, 10s. for cement 

 and labour only; and £2, 10s. for labour only. 

 Half-brick work laid in cement, with cross- 

 joints bedded, 5d. for material and labour; 2^d. 

 for cement and labour ; Id. for labour only, per 

 foot superficial. One brick thick, 9|d. for mate- 

 rial and labour; 4|d. for cement and labour; 

 and 2d. for labour only, per foot superficial. 

 12-inch tiles bedded and edge-set in cement, 

 6d. for material and labour ; 2|d. for cement 

 and labour; and l^d. for labour only, per foot 

 superficial. 



Pointing brick walls. — Garden walls, if well 

 built, care being taken to keep the joints at the 

 headers perpendicular, and confining the builder 

 in specification not to exceed llf inches to 

 every four courses in height in England, and 

 12| in Scotland, require no pointing when first 



built. But old walls, and such as have been 

 defaced by the old and barbarous practice of 

 driving nails into the joints, will be much im- 

 proved by pointing, and, indeed, made to look 

 almost as well as when new. Old walls, to be 

 common pointed, should have all the joints 

 carefully raked out, and made good with best 

 mortar, the whole surface of the face washed 

 over with hot-lime white-wash of sufficient 

 consistency to fill up all the nail holes, taking 

 care that holes of larger size and fractured cor- 

 ners be made good with Roman cement. Lay 

 on afterwards two coats of brick-coloured paint, 

 formed of Mulgrave cement and red lead mixed 

 in oil ; the joints may afterwards be drawn in 

 with black wax, for the sake of appearance. 

 Where walls are coped with brick or tile, the 

 joints should be examined and repaired at least 

 every second year ; and, for the repair of such 

 joints, cement of the best quality only should 

 be used. 



Flat-joint pointing with smithy-ash mortar for 

 new walls, 2|d. for material and labour; l|d. 

 for labour only. If done in cement, add Id. 

 per foot for material and labour ; and |d. per 

 foot for labour only. 



Tuck-pointing on new work, 3^d. for material 

 and labour; and 2d. per foot superficial for 

 labour only. If the scaffolding has not been 

 removed, deduct ^d. per foot for the charge for 

 material and labour ; and |d. per foot for labour 

 only. Old walls requiring tuck-pointing, scrub- 

 bing down the face with water, staining the 

 same a fresh brick colour, and raking out the 

 old joints, drawing in the fresh joints, with the 

 perpendiculars regarded, 5d. per foot superficial 

 for material and labour; 2|d. per foot for labour 

 only. — The above are English prices. 



Bricklayers' wages per day in London, 5s. 3d. 

 from Lord Mayor's Day to Lady-day, and 5s. 9d. 

 the rest of the year. Labourers' wages, 3s. 6d. 

 for the same period, and 3s. 9d. the rest of the 

 year. Bricklayers employed in fire work, clean- 

 ing flues, and in fine work, such as tuck-pointing, 

 cutting arches, &c, 7s. per day. Labourer at do., 

 4s. Bricklayer jobbing by the single hour, 7d. ; 

 labourer, 5d. — These are masters' prices. 



Bricks vary in price in various parts of Eng- 

 land. From lists of prices before us, we find 

 common bricks charged at Lichfield, £1, 4s., 

 while the best are £2, 10s. per 1000. At Bur- 

 ton-on-Trent they vary from £1, 2s. to £3. At 

 Newport, Monmouthshire, transported from 

 Bridgewater, Somersetshire, by water, best red 

 bricks, £1, 7s.; common red do., £1 per 1000. 

 And near Oxford, the field price is from 

 £1, 8s. to £1, 9s. per 1000. At Carlisle, 18s.— 

 very small, and not good in quality. Newcastle, 

 £1, Is.; fire-bricks, £2, 10s. per 1000. In ex- 

 tremity, however, the field price being given, 

 whatever it may be, the gardener will have no 

 difficulty in counting the cost from the data 

 furnished above ; or by allowing 5s. per rod for 

 each shilling per 1000, either in addition or re- 

 duction on the field prices. 



BRICK DRAINS. 



The use of drain-tiles and pipes has very 

 properly superseded the building of drains 



