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Visual DictionaryBSCI 2300 Materials I
Spring 2010
Air Barrier Paper
A composite sheet material used as a vapor retarded to control air, water, and permit water vapor
Attic Ventilation
Opening that allows air to flow into the attic of the space below the roof sheathing along with the removal of heat through the upper most part of
the roof. This helps keep the attic cool in the summer and moisture in the attic to evaporate.
Gable Vent
Attic Ventilation
Turbine Vent Ridge Vent
Soffit Vent
Back HoeAn excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn
back ward to move earth. Typically used for excavating job sites. Bucket was 23” in width.
Batter Boards
A temporary frame build just outside the
corner of an excavation to carry
marks that lie on the surface planes of the basement that will be built in the excavation.
Brick Arches
Roman Arch: an arch with a Keystone
Centering: Temporary framework for a arch that allows you to place the bricks before entering the keystone
Jack Arch
Brick BondsRowlock
Brick Bonds
Sailor: brick laid vertically with the largest face side exposed
Running Bond: a bond that contains all stretchers.
Brick BondsSoldier
Stretcher
Brick Bonds
Header
Common Bond: a running bond course, and every fifth, sixth, seventh course there is a pattern ran containing a runner and header alternating.
Brick Sizes
Modular: 3 5/8” x 7 5/8” x 2 ¼”
Brick Sizes
Queen Size: 8” x 3” x 2 ¾”
Bulldozer
A large, powerful tractor having a vertical blade at the front end for moving earth, tree stumps, rocks
Cladding
Stone
EIFS
Cladding
Brick
Wood Board
Cladding
Wood Shingles: shingles made from sawn logs used in cladding or roofing
installed in an overlapping fashion
Wood Shakes: shingles made from split logs mainly used for covering a
top of a house.
Code Requirements
Measurement: 2.5’ x 5’; 12.5 SQF Area. The
window is 4” AFF.
IBC Requirements for a Window: Min opening of
5.7 SQF, Min Height of 2’, Min Width of 1.33’, and
less than or equal to 3.66’ sill height AFF.
The window does meet the requirements.
Stair
Riser: 6 ¾”Tread: 12”
IBC CODERiser: 7 - 3/4” Max (no more than 3/8” deviation)
Tread: 11” min depth
Concrete Joints
Control Joint: an intentional cut in the concrete to prevent
cracking due to expansion in the concrete
Crack in the Control Joint
Isolations Joint: relieves flexural stress due to the vertical movement in the slab
on grade concrete. Isolation from the slab of concrete and the concrete wall.
CMU
12” x 8” x 16”
Width:12”
Width: 8”
CMU
1 CMU= 3 courses of brick
Doors
Exterior Flushed Door
Exterior Panel Door
Panel
Bottom Rail Lock Rail Stile
Top Rail
DoorSidelight: A tall, narrow window beside the door
Transom: A window directly above the door letting light in
Electrical Components
Service Head: A device that protects the electrical wires as they
enter the house.
Underground Transformer Box: electrical device that changes the voltage of an alternating current
usually entering a type of neighborhood.
Electrical Components
Electric Meter: device that measures how much
electricity was used by a dwelling.
Service Panel: To control the flow of electricity. It has
breakers that allows to turn electricity off and on in separate places.
Duplex Receptacle: An outlet to plug in electrical devices.
Framing Elements#1 Anchor Bolt #2 Sill Plate
#3 Floor Joist
Framing Elements
#4 Sub Flooring #5 Sole Plate
Framing Elements
#6 Stud #7 Top Plate
Framing Elements
#8 Stringer #9 Ceiling Joist
Framing Elements
#10 Rafter #11 Roof Decking#11 Roof Decking (Sheathing)
Front End Loader
A piece of earth moving equipment that scoops or loads soil with it’s bucket. It differs from a bulldozer because it runs on wheels instead of a track, and a backhoe because it
doesn’t have a bucket on the front
Gypsum Board
A common material composed of gypsum plaster compressed between sheets of paper and kiln dried.
Heat Pump
Air-Handling Unit: generally uses electric resistant heating for back up but some use gas.
Compressor: Conditions and circulates air that is temperature
controlled.
Advantage: Heat pump systems have a rapid response time.
Disadvantage: A Heat Pump may need a backup system to effectively heat a building in very cold climates.
Insulation
Blanket/ Batt Insulation: Batts are precut, whereas blankets are available in continuous rolls.
Compressing the material reduces its effectiveness.
Foam Insulation: a 2 component mixture that is sprayed from a nozzle
into unfinished wall and ceiling cavities.
Insulation is a material that reduces unwanted heat loss or gain and can decrease the energy demands of heating and cooling systems.
Insulation
Loose Fill: materials can be blown into hard-to-reach
areas are made of recycled materials.
Foam Board: a type of insulation sandwiched around used for
ceilings, floors, walls, and roofs.
Lintel
Concrete horizontal beam that usually supports the masonry above a window or door opening.
Mortar
Raked Joint: 3/8” tooled joint most likely using Type N mortar.
Concave Joint: 3/8” tooled joint most likely using Type N mortar.
Oriented Strand Board
OSB (non-veneered): Composed of long strands of wood fibers oriented in specific directions and bonded together
under pressure.
Plumbing
Water Closet: 3” required drainage pipe.
Manufactured Tub Unit: Manufactured Tub set in during framing prior to
gypsum board being applied.
Vent Through Roof (VTR: Releases the
sewer Gas into the air and freely allowing the drain system to vent
itself.
Plumbing
Lavatory: Pipe size required is 1 ½” drainage pipe.
Drop In Kitchen Sink: the counter top had a precut hole to insert the sink
into.
Plywood
Wood panel composed of an odd numbers of wood veneer bonded together under pressure.
Veneer: a thin covering over another surface for a more aesthetically facing.
Radiant Barrier
It is foil like material that has a reflective surface and repels radiation away from the house to cool the it.
Rebar
This is #3 rebar which is 3/8” thick in diameter which is graded 40. Deformations are to help bond with the
concrete.
Steep Rood Drainage
Down Spout: Metal pipe structure that connects to the gutter and allows the controlled water to flow to the ground.
Gutter: A metal pan that stretches the linear length of the outside of
the roof at the eave.
Splash Block: It breaks precipitation from the downspout on the ground and
funnels the water where desired.
Steep Roof Materials
Metal Panel Roof: typically used galvanized or aluminized steel
Underlayment: A secondary weather barrier with better
resistance to tearing, moisture, and
ultraviolet rays.
Steep Roof Shapes
Gable Roof
Steep Roof Terms
No Fascia Turbine
Steep Roof TermsGable Vent
Eave: horizontal edge at low point of the roof slope
Valley: trough formed by 2 roof slopes
Rake: The exterior angled piece that extends from eave to ridge
Steep Roof Terms
Soffit Vent
Ridge: The level intersection of 2 planes of a roof.
Ridge Vent
Fascia: Exposed vertical face of
an eave.
Soffit: The under surface of a horizontal element of a building.
Stone
Coursed Ashlars
Random Rubble
Coursed Rubble
Vapor Retarder
A Vapor Retarded is a layer of material intended to obstruct the passage of water vapor through a building assembly. Place the warm-in-winter side of the framed building.
Waterproofing
A material applied to the outside of a foundation to keep moisture out of a building which is loosely applied here.
Weep Hole
Permits drainage of moisture that accumulates inside a brick wall component.
Welded Wire Fabric
A grid of steel rods that are welded together and used to reinforce a concrete slab. The grid used in
this slab is 6”x 6”.
Windows
Single Hinged Sliding Windows: Only one sash slides up and down.
Windows
Casement Window: Out swinging hinged window.
Double Hung Window: 2 overlapped slashes that both
slide horizontally up and down.