Take floor after floor in the same manner, noting the variation in the tints of the painting; take the paper all round for the floors above, deducting the wall string of stairs; the dado, of course, following round the landing and up the stairs; deduct the doors, etc, from it; take the circular or wreathed parts of soffites of stairs in one dimension with the straight parts for distempering; take the ceilings of landings, or if you measure right across, deduct want in well-hole; take the ceiling on top floor, which will extend right over, deducting any lantern light; a trap door is scarcely worth deducting. The painting has to be measured to all the outsides of doors, jamb linings, the architraves, skirtings, traps, windows, and stairs, pipe casings, cupboards on landings, lantern light (if there is one), window backs, boards, and linings, well-hole linings, called apron linings, the margins of landings, and the margins in hall, if painted.