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Pain emphasises that gauged work is measured and priced upon a different
and more expensive system:
Rubbed Arches of any Sort are done from 1s. 6d. to 20d. per Foot; workmanfhip
from 10d. to 1s. - Plain Facios rubbed 1s. 1d. per Foot; Workmanfhip 8d. - Brick
Cornices from 4s. to 5s. per Foot; workmanfhip from 3s. to 3s. 6d. - Cutting Bricks
for rubbed and gauged Work, from 40s. to 2l. 10s. per Thoufand (Pain, 1769, 1)
He concludes by providing a valuable exercise in how a new house might be
priced for a bricklayer's work. From this, one can determine how gauged work
was considered an essential part of a brick-built property; and was around five
per cent of the overall brickwork price (Pain 1769, 8).
An Eftimate for Building a New Houfe.
£.
s.
d.
To 600 Loads of Digging in Cellars and Foundations, at 6d.
15
0
0
Per load
68½ Rods of Brick-work, reduced to 1½ Brick, at 6s. 5d. per Rod
428
2
6
21½ Square plain Tiling, at 1l.8s. the Square
30
2
0
150 Feet Run of Arch Drain, at 2s. 6d.
18 15 0
45 Yards Brick Paving in Morter, at 2s. 6d.
5 12 6
92 Feet of rubbed and gauged Arches to Windows, at 1s. 6d.
6 18 0
112 Feet of rubbed and Gauge in Facio, at 1s.
5 12 0
270 Feet of rubbed Returns, at 6d.
6 15 0
120 Feet Run of rough Splays, at 1½d.
0 15 0
45 Feet fuperficial of fummered Arches 1½ Brick, at 4d.
0 15 0
165 Feet Run of Groin, at 6d.
4
5
0
236 Feet 6 Inches of Foot Tile Paving, at 4d.
3 19 0
143 Feet Run of common Drain, 10 Inches wide, 9 Inches high,
7
3
0
4 Inch Walls, covered with Foot Tile, paved with flat Bricks, at 1s.
Total of
Bricklayers
Work
£
.
533 14 0
Dearn (1809, 34), remarking on pricing gauged work, states:
The gauged arches, are most commonly deducted; but whether deducted or not,
are always charged separately as the price of gauged work is seldom less, than five
times as much, as is allowed for the best facing.
Under the general heading of Rubbed and Gauged Work, he states (1809, 58):
This work is measured either by the foot superficial, or by the foot run, and set
either in putty or mortar.
