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Visual Dictionary 2
1. Air Barrier Paper This material is a vapor retardant and and air barrier. This particular Tyvek wrap is serving as a barrier against weather elements while renovations are completed.
2. Attic Ventilation Roof Turbine Soffit Vent Soffit vents intake air for ventilation. Cross drafts are created in wind with a gable vent, and ridge vents are used to ventilate continuously along an entire roof. The roof turbine is similar to the ridge vent in the sense that it is a form of high-ventilation. Gable Vent Waters vapors escape through attic ventilation. Ridge Vent
3. Backhoe Backhoes are used for excavating, using the digging bucket at the end of an arm with two joints. This backhoes bucket is 17’’ wide.
4. Batter Boards Batter Boards are simply just temporary markings which frame the outline the house for excavation.
6. Brick Bonds Header Flemish Bond- Each course of brick consists of alternating headers and stretchers, with the headers centered over the stretchers in intervening courses. Running Bond- All stretchers. This one is laid in ½ bond. Soldier Rowlock Stretcher Rowlock Sailor
7. Brick Sizes This Brick is w x 2 ¼”. x 7 ½” This brick is a modular brick and the width should be between 3 ½” and 3 5/8”. The brick is half the size of the modular brick.
8. Bulldozer A bulldozer is equipped with a huge metal plate, used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc. during construction work.
9. Cladding EIFS Stone Wood Board Wood Shake Metal Wood shingles are thin pieces of sawn wood that overlap. Wood shake is split from the wood rather than sawn, and have a irregular face texture.
10. Code Requirements 70’’ High 34 ¾’’ wide The area of opening is approx 8ft squared , which is more than the required 5’ of opening for bedrooms on the first floor. This window conforms with IRC standards. The Tread is 11’’ and the Riser is 7 ½’’, so they meet IRC requirements, which state that tread be no less then 10’’ and Riser no more then 7 ¾’’
11. Concrete Joints An isolation joint discontinues the concrete. Separating the concrete from the house with this joint reduces cracking. Here the control joint is separating a concrete slab from the rest of the House. A control joint intentionally discontinues the concrete in a structure to help reduce cracking. In this picture, the control joint has failed in this particular spot of concrete.
12. Concrete Masonry Units The CMU is 8” x 4” x 6” Concrete Masonry Units, or CMUs, are blocks of hardened concrete, with or without hollow cores, designed to be laid in the same manner as brick or stone; a concrete block. Generally their dimensions are 8” x 8” x 16”
14. Doors Transom-A Window above the door. Panel Top Rail Lock Rail Sidelight- A window alongside a door. Stile Flush Exterior Door Bottom Rail
15. Electrical Components A service panel distributes the electricity from wires to receptacles throughout the house. Transformer converts voltage of thousands of volts to 110/220 volt current
17. Front End Loader A piece of excavating equipment with a large, broad scoop on the front.
18. Gypsum Board Also called drywall, Gypsum board has a Gypsum core in between two paper faces
19. Heat Pump The compressor contains the fan which moves air across coils which contain refrigerant to change the temperature of the refrigerant. It has a fast response time, but is noisy
21. Lintel A beam that carries the load of a wall across a window or door.
22. Mortar This mortar joint is beaded. It is a little under ½” thick and is tooled. The mortar type is type S.
23. Oriented Strand Board (OSB) The two outer layers have grains running Parallel, and the inner layers run perpendicular. These layers are then dried, glued, and pressed together. A pressure treated panel product composed of long shreds of wood fiber.
24. Plumbing Drop-in sink Lavatory bowl used for washing. Typical piping size of 1 ½” diameter. Water Closet Typically a 3” diameter pipe
25. Plywood Veneer is a thin layer, sheet, or facing. Plywood is a wood panel composed of an odd number of layers Pressure bonded wood. The wood is rotary sliced off the tree, then dried to remove moisture, cut to size, glued in layers, and the pressed into boards.
27. Rebar ½” diameter rebar. Referred to as #4 because it is 4 eigths of an inch. The form of the surface of the rebar are to give it more surface space to adhere to concrete and grout, and to prevent slippage within the concrete. We use rebar for its tensile strength.
28. Steep Roof Drainage The gutter collects rainwater and snow melt. It then channels it toward the downspout. Gutter A downspout is a vertical pipe that uses gravity to drain water. Downspout A Splahblock is a cement block that prevents soil erosion at opening of downspout. Splashblock
29. Steep Roof Materials Metal panel roof A shingle is a water resistant roof material that overlaps other shingles. Typically made of enamel-coated galvanized steel, copper, lead-coated copper, stainless steel. Clay Tile Roof There is underlayment in roof to add another moisture barrier.
35. Weep Hole A small opening whose purpose is to permit drainage of water that accumulates inside a building component or assembly.
36. Welded Wire Fabric A group of steel rods welded together, used to reinforce concrete slabs.
37. Windows This window is an awning window because it opens at the bottom since it is hinged at the top This window is a fixed window casement. This window is a double hung window because it slides into an open position.
