LABOR PRICES PER THOUSAND BRICK FOR
FOUR CLASSES OF BRICK BUILDINGS
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Part of Building | Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3| Class 4
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Basement | $ 7.50 | $ 7.50 | $ 8.50 | $ 9.50
First floor | 8.00 | 9.00 | 10.50 | 13.50
Second floor | 8.50 | 10.00 | 11.00 | 14.00
Third floor | 9.00 | 10.50 | 11.50 | 14.50
Fourth floor | 9.50 | 11.00 | 12.00 | 15.00
Fifth floor | 10.00 | 11.50 | 12.50 | 15.50
Sixth floor | 11.00 | 12.00 | 13.00 | 16.00
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The prices in the table include the cost of mortar. If the cost of
brick at building is added, the result will be the total cost of
brickwork exclusive of scaffolding. The average price of total brick
labor in buildings of class 1 is $8.50; of class 2, $9.50; of class 3,
$11.50; and of class 4, $14.
=37.= The following miscellaneous brick prices, including labor and
mortar, but not brick, are from the same source as the prices given in
the preceding article, and are based on the same condition, the prices
being in bricks per thousand:
For heavy basement walls and similar masses
of brickwork $ 7.00
For 18-inch brick walls not over two or three
stories high, in hard brick with struck joints 8.00
Same as above, but for 13-inch walls 9.00
For 18-inch brick walls, as above, but faced
on one side with pressed brick 12.00
For 18-inch brick walls, as above, but faced on
both sides with pressed brick 16.50
For 13-inch brick walls, as above, but faced
one side with pressed brick 14.00
For 13-inch brick walls, as above, but faced
both sides with pressed brick 14.00
Add to above, if of English or Flemish
bond, on entire cost of wall .50
If work is broken up into light piers, requiring
a lot of plumbing, add to cost of wall as above 1.50
If a large number of segmental arches must
be turned, add to total cost of wall 1.00
In addition to the preceding schedule two useful rules to remember are:
For pressed-brick segmental arches, add for labor 1½ times the cost of
bricks; for pressed-brick arches requiring radial brick, add for labor
twice the cost of straight, pressed brick. As radial brick are shipped
to the building in barrels and have to be unpacked and laid out on the
full-sized diagram on the floor, it will be found that the rate given
is not excessive.
For brick vault arches, the cost of labor, exclusive of mortar, will be
about $5 per thousand brick. If pointed underneath, 7 cents per square
foot will have to be added. If the centers are left in place until the
mortar has set, it will be necessary to rake out the joints and wet
them before pointing. This will cost about 10 cents per square foot.