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Excerpt from Small Country Houses of to-Day
In this imaginary house the foundations are assumed to be normal in quantity and cost, but if the ground be treacherous and need specially deep or solid foundations, what then An extra cost of over two hundred pounds may easily be incurred without the addition of a Single extra cubic foot of useful space in the house. This would bring the cubic - foot price from Sixpence up to sevenpence, and there would be nothing to Show for the extra expenditure. Then, again, local conditions of building vary greatly. If a house is three miles from a station, instead of near by, every ton of brick and timber carted will cost about half-a crown more. Some districts are rich in materials, as, for example, Peterborough, where bricks cost little more than half their price delivered in London. Moreover, wages vary markedly, and those ruling in Greater London are on a higher scale than in the country. All these con?icting factors tend to vitiate the accuracy of comparison between the cubic-foot price of one house and another, even where the materials used in each are of the same intrinsic value, and no comparison is reasonable at all when one is built, say, of stone, with oak-panelled rooms, and the other of brick, with walls plainly plastered. SO much for the danger of laying too great stress on such a rough-and - ready method of calculating costs: Its real value is in the proof it gives that houses can be built in solid fashion and with definite artistic quality at such low costs as Sixpence or sevenpence a cubic foot. When that is made clear there disappears much of the objection to embarking on building a house that will suit its owner''s tastes and habits to a nicety.
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In this imaginary house the foundations are assumed to be normal in quantity and cost, but if the ground be treacherous and need specially deep or solid foundations, what then An extra cost of over two hundred pounds may easily be incurred without the addition of a Single extra cubic foot of useful space in the house. This would bring the cubic - foot price from Sixpence up to sevenpence, and there would be nothing to Show for the extra expenditure. Then, again, local conditions of building vary greatly. If a house is three miles from a station, instead of near by, every ton of brick and timber carted will cost about half-a crown more. Some districts are rich in materials, as, for example, Peterborough, where bricks cost little more than half their price delivered in London. Moreover, wages vary markedly, and those ruling in Greater London are on a higher scale than in the country. All these con?icting factors tend to vitiate the accuracy of comparison between the cubic-foot price of one house and another, even where the materials used in each are of the same intrinsic value, and no comparison is reasonable at all when one is built, say, of stone, with oak-panelled rooms, and the other of brick, with walls plainly plastered. SO much for the danger of laying too great stress on such a rough-and - ready method of calculating costs: Its real value is in the proof it gives that houses can be built in solid fashion and with definite artistic quality at such low costs as Sixpence or sevenpence a cubic foot. When that is made clear there disappears much of the objection to embarking on building a house that will suit its owner''s tastes and habits to a nicety.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Lawrence Weaver
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ISBN - 9780260016058
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 242
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Lawrence Weaver
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ISBN - 9781330381373
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 244
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