Item 141 - Plumbing Works in College

7 items, paper.

Receipt from Messrs Farell, Ellis and Sons, Plumbers and Glaziers, for plumbing work carried out in college over 1873-4.
Masters Lodge: taking up three water closets; drawing, repairing and refining aparatus; clearing out cisterns etc.; one new white basin; bleaching two basins; 3ft of new 3/4 in pipe; soldering joints; connecting pipes and hooks; new valve and tap in bathroom; stopping floot and ceiling under WC with sawdust; straightening pipe and correcting stop tap; materials and labour for all of these tasks. Cost: £2 6s 6d.
Courts/Roofs/Rooms/Staircases: taking up two basins, unstopping taps and soil pipes, and cleaning and refining student WCs; mending roof over library and lodge in 18 places (cost reduced by credit from selling old lead).
Gas lamps: one bent glass top for gas lamp in cloisters; four squares of glass and repairs to tin work on gas lamp in F staircase.
Morris' rooms, J2: one window casement (releading and cementing); ten glass quarries added; painting, puttying, and banding to iron frame.
Library: two squares of glass and three quarries; one square of glass for library staircase.
L staircase: taking down rainwater pipe, cleaning and refixing (including new wall hooks and half a day's wage for plumber).
New valves for WCs in P staircase and pensioners' closets.
New stop cap and valve for WC in First Court.
Landing of M staircase: repairing lead work to light and 20 pieces of tinted glass.
2 men paid a quarter day's wages for repairing the hosepipe and making joints (plus cost of tubes, copper wire, and leather collars).
New squares of glass for C and F staircases, the Porters' Lodge, Mr Phelps' rooms in B staircase, Mr Bennett's rooms in L staircase, A.B. Williams' rooms in C staircase, Dr Woodhouse's rooms; Mr Cleverley's rooms; Mr Fennel's rooms (work carried out 1872).
New valves, joints, and taps for D and E staircases.
New windows in M, O, and P staircases: 20 windows total, incl. 31 pieces of glass (plain and cathedral) and three-quarter day's wage for plumber.
Servants' closets: taking up, cleaning, refixing, and correcting bedmakers' closet and repairing tap (incl. labour costs); two cement joints, two arm joints, and one lead flanch; one new brass screw to handle Smith's work; new valve leather (cleaning, oiling, correcting); taking up and refixing basin and tap; repairing pipe and sink in back yard; new square of glass and repairs to roof in Servants' Hall.
Porters' Lodge: new valve and four new brass flanch screws.
Refilling six ventilators on roof with charcoal.
New valve box, bucket, and leathers in the Fellows' Garden.
2 metal plates for noticeboards, incl. painting black and small letters.
Chapel: taking eight [?] out of ventilation to alter pulley, refixing and repriming, puttying and banding to iron frame; taking down one stack rainwater pipes and fixing new, incl. two lengths of 4 in iron pipe; coal; nails; one square of glass in the tower; one day's wages for a glazier to assist in taking out old lights in south transept window and glazing with sheet glass; one round lead grate for gutters; three quarter day wages for man to assist glazing the stained glass.
Kitchens: 4 squares glass; new valves, valve box, pump, leather, and bucket (plus labour costs).
Buttery: 2 squares glass; relining sink with lead; taps, pipes etc.
Hall: cleaning all windows; releading all casements, and priming, puttying, and banding new glass to them; glazing windows; releading stained glass shields (incl lead and solder).
Total cost for all works £88 19s 4d.