ornamented iron work, balusters, lattice work, palings or turned work
should all be measured double. Changing colors on base boards, panels,
cornices, or other work, one-fourth extra measurement should be allowed
for each tint.
Add five per cent. to regular price for knotting, puttying, cleaning
and sand-papering.
For work done above the ground floor charge as follows: Add five per
cent. for each story of 12 feet or less, if interior work; if exterior
work, add one per cent. for each foot of height above the first 12 feet.
It is impossible to give prices for painting that will be reliable in
any one section of this country for more than a month, as the cost of
materials and labor is continually varying, but we offer the following
hints, which may assist the workman to make a fairly just estimate of
work:
For plain colors on wood--
First coat, per yard, $--
2 coats, add ” 4-5
3 coats, ” ” 1¹⁄₂
Now, by this rule, if the first coat was 10 cents, two coats would be
18 cents, and three coats would be 25 cents. This is a simple method
and easily understood, and is adapted to any sort of plain painting or
graining.
Graining, with one or two coats of good varnish, is worth, at this
writing, from 65 cents to $2.00 per yard, and marbling from $1.50 to
$2.75 per yard.
Marbling mantels is worth from $5.00 to $20.00, according to style of
marble and beauty of finish. All of the above prices are based on the
understanding that the workman furnishes all tools and materials.
Transcriber’s Notes
Missing and incorrect punctuation has been fixed.
Due to space restrictions, the data originally in a remarks column in
the table has been restructured into footnotes in the text version.
Page 8: “in cold whether” changed to “in cold weather”
Page 29: The 2 sentences beginning with “The materials and tools used”
are missing words in this and later editions and have been left as per
the original.
Page 52: “wollen cloth” changed to “woolen cloth”
Page 54: The sentence beginning with “The tint used” has an incomplete
word in this and later editions and has been left as per the original.