RULES FOR OUTSIDE MEASUREMENTS Clapboard Walls—Add one square foot to each square yard of measurement to allow for under edges of boards.
Flat Brick, Wood, Cement, or Stone Walls— Measure height by width, and add the area of openings.
Cornices—If plain, multiply the length by one and one-half times the girth; on high build ings, where the walls are not to be painted, by four times the girth.
Bracket Cornices—The length to be multi plied by from three to eight times the girth, according to ornamentation and height above ground.
Outside Blinds—Multiply the height by twice the girth for stationary, and by three times the girth for rolling slat blinds. Height by twice the girth for shutters.
Door Frames—If six inches or less in girth, the girth to be counted as one foot, and allow double girth for all in excess of six inches, multi plying by the length all around.
Doorz—Batten doors, add one inch to girth for each bead or batten, and measure square. Paneled doors, double the area. Measure edges
twice lOn account of lock face and butts.
Window Sash—If plain, measure the height by one and one-half times the width; if fancy, by three times the width.
Balustrades—Take four times the height of one side, with the top surface of upper and lower rail added, and multiply by the length of the baluster rail.
Columns—When plain, multiply the height by one and one-half times the girth; when fluted, by twice the girth, pressing the tape into the flutes. Capitals, the height by from three to ten times the girth.
Plain or Beaded Sheathed Ceilings—Twice the length by the width, adding one inch to the width for each bead.
Tin Roofs—Measure square.
In dipping shingles, estimate at 400 square feet for each thousand shingles.
Floors--Square measurement.
Chimneys, Conductors, Spouts, Barge Boards, Crestings—Four times the girth multi plied by the length.