CARPENTER AND JOINER. 14-inch deal, three panels, bead flush and bead butt. If these are circular on the plan, or contain more than three panels in height, the specification must so state. Staircases are described as under, beginning with the commonest. 1-inch yellow deal, steps, risers, and carriages. 14-inch deal, steps, inch risers, and carriage. 1-inch deal, steps and risers glued up and blocked to close string moulded nosings, and two fir carriages. 11-inch deal, steps and risers mitred to cut string, and dovetailed to balusters. 1-inch deal, steps to winders, mitred to cut string, and dovetailed to balusters, one end circular. 14-inch deal, steps to winders, mitred to cut string, and dovetailed to balusters, both ends circular. If the risers are to be tongued to the steps, if feather jointed, or if of clean deal, such must be stated in the specification. 1-inch deal, wrought steps, risers, and strong carriage. 14-inch oak, treads and risers mitred to string and dovetailed with fir carriage (with Housings to ends of steps and winders, and the same to moulded nosings and circular ends, are to be specified. String boards to staircases to receive the ceilings of stairs (or strings as they are called), are 1-inch deal, framed. 1-inch deal, framed, rebated, and beaded. 14-inch deal, framed string board. 1-inch deal, framed string board, sunk and beaded. 1-inch deal, framed string board, sunk, beaded, and moulded. 14-inch deal, framed string board, sunk, beaded, moulded, and mitred to risers. 1-inch deal, wreathed outside, string glued upright, rebated, and beaded. 14-inch deal, wreathed outside, string glued upright, rebated, beaded, and sunk. 1-inch deal, wreathed outside, string glued upright, rebated, beaded, sunk, and moulded. If the string is to be glued up in thicknesses, that must be specified, as also all plain or moulded circular cuttings or ramps. 1-inch deal, plain wall string. If moulded, to be so described. Handrails to staircases are described as 14-inch deal, plain wreathed. 1-inch deal, plain wreathed. 2-inch deal, plain wreathed. If moulded, state so. Deal moulded 24-inch handrail. Deal moulded 24-inch handrail, ramped (or circular where required). Deal moulded 21-inch handrail, wreathed and twisted. Honduras mahogany or wainscot moulded handrail. To be described if necessary with ramps, circular and twist, or with scroll and twist to the curtail step. Spanish mahogany handrail is also similarly described. If grooved for balusters, circular, or sunk for iron cores, mitred and turned caps, such to be mentioned. Balusters and newels are described. Deal square framed newels. Deal square framed newels, chamfered. Single and double turnings to newels to be mentioned, as also pendent drops, when used. Deal square bar balusters. Deal square bar balusters, dovetailed. CARPENTER AND JOINER. Turned balusters according to drawing, when necessary. Planceer rounded on both edges, or moulded, as the case may be. Fix all iron balusters and stays. Sash frames are of great variety, whereof the following is a list : Deal cased frame for 1-inch sashes, oak sunk sill with brass pulleys for single hanging. Ditto, for double hanging. Ditto, ditto, with circular head. Ditto, circular on plan (and with circular head, when required). Deal cased frames for 2-inch sashes, oak sunk sills with brass pulleys prepared for single hanging. Ditto, prepared for double hanging. If circular on head and plan, or either, such to be specified. Deal-cased frames for 2-inch sashes, oak sunk sills with wainscot pulley pieces and beads, brass axle pulleys prepared to hang double. If circular on head and plan, or either, such to be specified. Deal cased frames for 2-inch sashes, oak sunk sills, mahogany pulley pieces and beads with brass axle pulleys, prepared to hang double. The same description holds for 24-inch sashes. If, as before, circular on head and plan, or either, such to be mentioned. Venetian frames are described as. Deal cased frames for 14-inch sashes, oak sunk sills, and prepared to hang single or double, as the case may be. If circular on plan and head, or either, specify the same. The above description for 14-inch serves also for 2-inch and 24-inch sashes. If wainscot or mahogany, they must be so described. Casement frames for French casements: Fir solid wrought frames for 14-inch French casements, with oak sunk sills (plain or circular on the plan, as the case may be). Fir solid wrought frames for 2-inch French casements and oak sunk sills (as before). Fir solid wrought frames for 2-inch French casements and oak sunk sills (as before), with wainscot or mahogany styles and beads as may be correspondent with the sashes. The same for 2-inch sashes. Fanlight frames over doors, which have nearly lost their employment from square lights having superseded them, are of — 14-inch deal frames, square framed. Ditto, semicircular head. 2-inch deal, square framed. Ditto, semicircular head. If elliptical, so describe them. Sashes are to be described as follows: 11-inch deal ovolo (describe whether with circular head or circular on plan, if so). 2-inch deal ovolo (ditto). 2-inch deal astragal and hollow (ditto). 2-inch deal astragal and hollow (ditto). The above, if of wainscot, Honduras or Spanish mahogany, are to be so described, as also that they are to be hung single or double, as the case may be, with patent lines and iron weights, and patent sash-fastenings complete. French casements are usually decribed as follows: 2-inch deal ovolo casements. If with marginal lights or circular on plan, or both, describe them so; or if with astragal and hollow. The same of 2-inch, with the same modifications as in preceding article. If either of the above be of wainscot, Honduras or Spanish mahogany, let them be so described. It is usual to describe with these the hanging, which is commonly with 4-inch iron or brass butt hinges, and the species of fastening which it is common to place, at a sum varying from five to twenty shillings. When the turning Espaniolette fastenings are used, they must be particularly specified. Shop-window sashes vary so much that we shall merely observe of their thicknesses, they are from 1 to 2 inches, and in the present extravagant rage for novelty among tradesmen, there is no end to the forms of their horizontal sections; nothing, however outré, would be considered too extravagant for these people, and all that we can do is to say that, after describing their thickness, they are to be executed according to the drawings. In subjects of this kind, too, the stall CARPENTER AND JOINER. board, and other fittings of the like nature, are to be specified in all, whereof the best way is to describe with reference to such drawings. Friezes and cradling for cornices should always be referred to drawings, specifying generally their height. Skylights, now usually made of metal; but if not, describe as follows: 1-inch deal ovolo skylight (if hipped, and with cross bars, state such). 2-inch deal ditto 24-inch ditto (ditto). If astragal and hollow, or if of oak, such to be specified. Kerbs for skylights are to be described 1 1-inch deal kerbs to circular skylights in two thicknesses, bevelled and chamfered. 2-inch ditto ditto. ditto. Doors we shall, as in the preceding articles, describe, beginning with the commonest sort, for out-houses and the like. -inch ledged wrought deal door. Ditto, ploughed, tongued, and beaded. 1-inch wrought deal ledged ditto. Ditto, ploughed, tongued, and beaded. 14-inch wrought deal ledged ditto. Ditto, ploughed, tongued, and beaded. 14-inch and 2-inch deal ledged doors are similarly described. These doors may be hung with or cross garnet hinges or with butt hinges, and with bolts, locks, latches, and other fastenings, as the case may require. External doors with 4-inch butts, if that be the sort used, and internal ones with 31-inch butts. Gates and coach-house doors are specified as — 2-inch deal, framed and braced, filled in with 2-inch deal, and ploughed, tongued, and beaded. The same, filled in with battens. 21-inch deal, framed and braced, filled in with 1-inch deal, ploughed, tongued, and beaded. Ditto, filled in with battens. If filled in with whole deal, it must be so specified. 2-inch deal bead butt and square gates, in eight panels. 2-inch deal bead butt and square gates, beadflush and square. 2-inch deal bead butt and square gates, bead flush on both sides. If with more panels, or framed with a wicket, such must be specified. The hanging of gates, and their hinges and fastenings, may be inserted according to the occasion of the work, at from 10l. to 157. or even 201., which may be declared in the specification as to the value at which they are to be provided. 1-inch deal 1-panel square doors. 1-inch deal 1-panel square doors, folding. The above are rarely used: we shall now, therefore, proceed by the number of panels, up to 6-panel doors, beyond which they are to be so particularly specified, or with reference to drawings. 11-inch, 2 panels, square. 1inch, 2 panels, bead butt and square. 1-inch deal, 2 panels, bead butt and square. CARPENTER AND JOINER. 14-inch deal, 2 panels, bead flush and moulded. 2-inch deal, 2 panels, bead butt and square. 24-inch deal, 2 panels, bead butt and square. All these, as well as the following, must be specified as to be hung folding, if the nature of the work so requires. 14-inch deal, 4 panels, square. 1-inch deal, 4 panels, bead butt and square. 2-inch deal, 4 panels, bead butt and square. 24-inch deal, 4 panels, bead butt and square. 1-inch deal, 6 panels, bead butt and square. If the panels of 14-inch doors are raised, or if double marginal doors, so describe them. CARPENTER AND JOINER. Wainscot doors are usually as follow: - 14-inch wainscot, 2 panels, bead flush and square. 2-inch-wainscot, 2 panels, bead flush and square. 24-inch wainscot, 2 panels, bead flush and square. 1-inch wainscot, 4 panels, bead flush and square. 2-inch wainscot, 4 panels, bead flush and square. 24-inch wainscot, 4 panels, bead flush and square. 2-inch wainscot, 6 panels, bead flush and square. 21-inch wainscot, 6 panels, bead flush and square. 2-inch wainscot sash-doors, with diminished stiles, lower panel moulded, bead flush, 2-inch wainscot sash-doors, with diminished stiles, lower panel moulded, bead flush, with astragal and hollow sash, moulded on both sides. 21-inch wainscot sash-doors, diminished stiles, lower panels moulded, and bead flush, with astragal and hollow sash. 21-inch wainscot sash-doors, diminished stiles, lower panels moulded, and bead flush, with astragal and hollow sash, moulded on both sides. If any of these are to be hung folding, double margined, or moulded on the raising, such must be specified. Mahogany doors as follows: 2-inch Honduras mahogany doors, 2 panels, moulded and square. |