Atchley's New Builder's Price Book

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1868
 

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Página 16 - Lime and sand, and likewise cement and sand, lose one-third of their bulk when made into mortar. The proportion of mortar or cement, when made up, to the lime or cement and sand before made up is as 2 to 3. Lime or cement and sand to make mortar require as much water as is equal to one-third of their bulk. A...
Página 12 - ... clay is not good, chalk and road-grit should be mixed with it. The proportions of clay and chalk may depend on the goodness of the clay, and the facility of procuring chalk. With moderate clay, seven-tenths clay, two-tenths chalk, and one-tenth road-grit. " The clay and chalk are raised and carted to a convenient spot of hard ground, where they are beaten to pieces by a heavy prong, and the stones picked out, and formed into a circular bed one foot thick and twenty feet diameter. " The bed is...
Página 102 - Deduct all doorways and openings, and take the doors, &c., as they may appear, charging extra all stops, rebates, fillets, or beads. SASH FRAMES. Measure the width between the pulley stiles, adding thereto 4 inches on each side for the casing ; and the height from the top of the sill to the underside of the head, adding thereto 4 inches for the width of the head, and 3 inches for the thickness of the sill. Deal cased frames for Ц-inch sashes, prepared to hang single with oak sunk silk and brass-faced...
Página 16 - Care should be taken in mixing the mortar to have the lime thoroughly incorporated with the sand, and that it is not saturated with too much water. The proportion of mortar or cement, when made up, to the lime' or cement and sand before made up, is as 2 to 3. Lime or cement and sand to make mortar, require as much water as is equal to one-third of their bulk. A load of mortar, 27 feet cube, requires 9 bushels of lime and 1 yard of sand. A common bricklayer's hod will contain 20 bricks. 1728 cubic...
Página 15 - ... 1 ,, ,, Called in London the standard thickness, to which all brickwork, of whatever thickness, is reduced. 4350 stock bricks to 1 rod reduced, 4 courses 1 ft. high. A rod of brickwork requires 1J cubic yards of chalk lime, and 3 single loads or yards of road drift or sand ; or 1 cubic yard of stone lime and 3J yards of sand; or 36 bushels of cement and 36 of sharp sand. A rod of brickwork, containing 235 cube feet of bricks, with 71 cube feet of mortar, will upon an average weigh 15 tons. 16...

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