Visual Dictionary Spring ‘09

Cope & Casting

Air Barrier Paper

A sheet material used as both a vapor retarder and an air barrier

Provides seal from outisde air inside the house

Attic Ventilation

Used to provide proper temperature and moisture control

Attic Ventilation (soffit vent)

Attic Ventilation (ridge vent)

Attic Ventilation (gable vent)

Attic Ventilation (roof turbine)

Backhoe

Excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm, typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader

Used for small excavations, trenches and footings

24” bucket

Batter Boards

A temporary frame built just outside the corner of a excavation to carry marks that lie on the surface planes of the basement that will be built in the excavation

Used to outline the area of the house will occupy

Brick Arches (roman)

Brick Arches (elliptical)

Brick Arches (keystone)

keystone

arch

Brick arches (centering)

Brick Bond (flemish)

Alternating stretcher header pattern

Brick Bond (common)

5 rows of strechers interupted by a row of headers

Brick Bond (rowlocks)

A brick laid on its face with its end visible in the wall face

Brick Bonds (headers)

Brick Bonds (soldiers)

A brick laid on its end with its face parallel to the wall

Brick Bonds (sailors)

Brick Bonds (shiners)

Brick Sizes

Modular 3 ½” x 2 ¼” x 7 ½”

Brick Sizes

Engineer Modular 3 ½” x 2 ¾” x 7 ½”

Bulldozer

A caterpillar tracked tractor, equipped with a substantial metal plate (known as a blade), used to

push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc

Brick

EIFS

Stone

Coursed ashlar

Wood Boards

Wood & Shake Shingles A shake is a wooden shingle that is made from split

logs. A shingle is sawn with a saw. (as pictured below)

Code Requirements (Room)Minimum net clear opening = 5.7 sq. ft (window below= 7.5 sq. ft)

Minimum net clear opening height = 24-inches (window below= 36 inches)

Minimum net clear opening width = 20-inches (window below 30 inches)

Maximum still height = 44-inches (window below 24 inches)

*meets requirements because it is only exit to the outside in case of a fire

Code Requirements (Stairs)

Tread minimum 10” (stairs below 11 ¼“)

Riser max 7 ¾” (stair below 7 ¾”)

*the stairs below meets code requirements

Concrete Joints (control joint)

An international, linear discontinuity in a structure or component, designed to form a plane of weakness where cracking can occur in response to various forces so as to minimize or eliminate cracking elsewhere in the structure

Concrete Joints (isolation joint)

Joints that are used to relieve flexural stresses due to vertical movement of slab-on-grade applications that adjoin fixed foundation elements such as columns, building or machinery foundations, etc.

Concrete Masonry Unit

CMU - A block of hardened concrete, with or without hollow cores, designed to be laid in the same manner as a brick or stone; a concrete block

Size 7 5/8” x 7 5/8” x 15 5/8”

Concrete Masonary Unit3 5/8”x 7 5/8” x 15 5/8” 11 5/8” x 7 5/8” x 15 5/8”

Decorative Masonry Unit (split)

Decorative Masonry Unit (ribbed split-face)

Decorative Masonry Unit (split)

Flush Door

Panel Door

4 panel door

Panel

Top Rail

Stile

Lock rail

Bottom rail

Door (transom & sidelight)

Transom -mall window directly above a door Sidelight -a tall, narrow window alongside a

door

Electrical Component (transformer box)

An electrical device that changes the voltage of alternating current

Electrical Component (service head)

The assembly by which electricity is conducted from outdoor lines to the meter base

Electrical Component (meter)

A device that measures the amount of electrical energy supplied to or produced by a residence, business or machine.

Electrical Component (service panel)

Divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits, while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit, in a common enclosure

Electrical Component (duplex receptacle)

A place where two appliances can be connected to an electric circuit

Framing Elements (anchor bolt #1)

Framing Element (sill plate #2)

Framing Element (floor joist #3)

Framing Element ( subflooring #4)

Framing Element (sole plate #5)

Framing Element (stud #6)

Framing Element (top plate #7)

Framing Element (ceiling joist #8)

Framing Element (rafter #9)

Framing Element (roof decking #10)

Framing Element (sheathing #11)

Framing Element (stringer #12)

Front End-Loader

Type of construction equipment (engineering vehicle) machinery that is primarily used to "load" material (asphalt, demolition debris, dirt, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals, recycled material, rock, sand, wood chips, etc.) into or onto another type of machinery (dump truck,

conveyor belt, feed-hooper, rail-car, etc.)

loader

Gypsum Board

•A common building material typically made of a layer of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper, then kiln dried

Heat Pump

ADVANTAGE: Heat pump models are available at a nominal additional cost. In many locales, the payback is realized in just a few months.

DISADVANTAGE: Open-loop systems require a large supply of clean water in order to be cost effective. This often limits their use to

coastal areas, and areas adjacent to lakes, rivers, streams, etc.

Compressor/Condenser

The compressor/condenser unit is a basically a pump which moves refrigerant gas to the compressor via the larger refrigerant "suction line" returning it from the in-building air handler and evaporator coil.

Air handling unit

An air handler, is a device used to condition and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. Usually, an air handler is a large metal box containing a blower, heating and/or cooling elements, filter racks or chambers, sound attenuators, and dampers. Air handlers usually connect to ductwork that distributes the conditioned air

through the building, and returns it to the AHU.