COST OF DIGGING A HOLE
160 PER CENT. UP, The extraordinary extent to which lab%our»and material costs in building have 'increased in England since 1914 is shown in the "Architects' Jourual" by LieutColonel T. E. Coleman, wlio has made an exhaustive analysis. The cost of digging an ordinary hole in common soil luis advanced from Bd. to Is. 9d. a cubic foot, or 1(10 per cent., and painting costs are-Is. 9d. im-lcad of 3d. a square yard. Concrete for ordinary floors, which iwed to cost .'ls. a sriuarc*ard, now costs (is., and practically every form of con;rete has doubled in price, as also is the case with brickwork. The same amount of wood suitable for .lintels and door-plates, which could be taught for 2s. lid. in 191-1 is now 7s. The cheapest <niftlUy of glass has risen in ,-irice from iU\. to Is. 2d. a. fool. A rod (161 ft.) of brickwork which, used to cost JCI7 10s. is now £'M. Plumbers' ,'cad has advanced from XI 7s. to £2 Os. a ewt., a foot run of Jin. lead piping which coat Is, Id., is now 35., and 4in. cast iron ventilating pipes have gono •>p from 2s, 6d. to ss, sd. a foot,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 7
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204COST OF DIGGING A HOLE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 7
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